Viena iš konteksto ištraukta frazė gali tapti galingu propagandos įrankiu. Būtent taip nutiko po europarlamentaro Žygimanto Pavilionio pasisakymo naujienų portalo „Delfi“ laidoje, po kurio socialiniuose tinkluose ir prorusiškuose kanaluose imta platinti teiginius, esą politikas ragino „žudyti rusus Vakaruose“. Tačiau nors politiko frazė buvo netinkamai suformuluota, ja nebuvo skatinama tautinė neapykanta.

Policija praneša apie eismo nelaimę A6 kelyje.

A doctors' group says it "borders on madness" that patients will have to obtain the note in person.

Officials believe the suspect may not have acted alone and spent days casing out scene of the attack.

Employers are being urged to use their "common sense" to allow staff to work flexibly where they can.

Wedding lists are being replaced by cash requests, but guests are divided over how much to give.

The EU’s new digital Entry/Exit System is experiencing “technical problems,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged on Friday. “We are working with the member states [so] that the technical problems are being solved,” von der Leyen said at a press conference in Cork, Ireland. The EES has been a subject of concern since its gradual rollout last year, but the problems have become more acute as air traffic picks up during Europe’s peak summer travel season. Airports and airlines have blamed the new border control system — which requires travelers from non-EU countries to register their biometric data — for hours-long queues, operational disruption and missed connecting flights. “There’s still quite a lot of work to do to have these technical issues solved together with the member states,” von der Leyen said. The comments mark a shift in tone from the Commission, which had downplayed disruption linked to the EES. “In most EU airports, this impact is indeed limited,” Markus Lammert, the Commission’s spokesperson for internal affairs, said Wednesday. The Commission said earlier this year that registering an entry or exit typically takes about 70 seconds. The aviation industry sees things very differently. Since the EES became mandatory, “waiting times at border control have increased significantly, now reaching up to five hours during peak traffic periods,” airport lobby ACI Europe and airline groups IATA and Airlines for Europe wrote in an open letter to von der Leyen on Wednesday. “These delays are impacting millions of passengers entering the Schengen Area … At the same time, airports and airlines are experiencing growing operational disruption, including flight delays, missed connections and increasing pressure on frontline staff,” the three organizations wrote. They urged the Commission to give countries greater flexibility “to completely suspend EES” where necessary, “at least throughout July and August.” Under the EES, travelers from non-EU countries such as the U.K. and the U.S. must register their fingerprints and a facial image the first time they enter the bloc for a short stay. The system is designed to combat overstays and the use of fraudulent travel documents by replacing passport stamps with a digital record. Registration can be accelerated through self-service kiosks or dedicated pre-registration apps. However, when the system became mandatory on April 10, border officers were still manually entering data at major hubs such as Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. So far, only Sweden and Portugal have activated the apps intended to speed up passenger processing. Several airports and ports have temporarily suspended biometric data collection during peak travel periods to ease congestion. The EES “did not change the legal frame about rules of entering and exiting the EU; it just creates transparency about abiding to the rules,” von der Leyen said in Cork. The Commission has defended the system by pointing to its security benefits. Between its original launch in October last year and April, “over 700 persons were identified as posing a security risk to Europe,” it said. Irish Minister for Home Affairs Jim O’Callaghan said those figures have since risen to “approximately a thousand people,” adding that around 110 million passengers have passed through EES checks since the system’s introduction. “It is effective in terms of protecting European Union security,” O’Callaghan said.

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Deezer “A ce moment-là, je me suis dit ‘j’arrête tout’”. Dans cet épisode spécial de Playbook Paris, le podcast de POLITICO, enregistré aux Rencontres économiques d’Aix-en-Provence, l’ancien ministre de l’Economie d’Emmanuel Macron raconte à Anthony Lattier ses campagnes électorales, de ses succès aux législatives aux moments de découragement qui ont suivis l’échec de la primaire de droite et du centre de 2016. Et les leçons qu’il en a tirées pour son combat pour 2027.

Heavy monsoon rains have inundated parts of Mumbai, India's financial capital, causing widespread flooding.

Back and forth over defence spending comes as NATO leaders set to meet in Ankara next week.

Automated system first mooted in 2008 was meant to keep out criminals — instead, it is delaying travellers

Deal to reset post-Brexit relations with bloc has been further delayed

He was assassinated in a #US-Israeli strike in February 2026. #Iran's Supreme leader Ali #Khamenei's #funerals are set to be held on July 4, with authorities expecting between 15 and 20 million people to attend.

The EU is trying to assert its strategic independence in an unstable world – a world of bullies, as some members of the EU Parliament describe it. That means independence in matters of defence and energy supplies, but also in the whole field of tech. The European Commission says non-EU companies provide more than 80 percent of the EU’s digital products and services. One of the key proposals aimed at changing that is the “Tech Sovereignty Package”, which was presented in early June. With our guests, we dive into the initiative, explain the geopolitical context and ask what it would take for the bloc to achieve real technological sovereignty.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has triggered a political storm after meeting fugitive businessman Ajay Gupta in India and declaring his intention to seek office again, drawing fierce criticism from the government.

California will honour martial arts legend Bruce Lee with an annual day of recognition after Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation making May 17 Bruce Lee Day, a first for a Chinese American in the state's history.