Vatikanas ketvirtadienį ekskomunikavo šešis ultrakonservatyvios Šv. Pijaus X brolijos vyskupus ir pareiškė, kad tokia pati bausmė laukia visų tikinčiųjų, kurie „formaliai prisijungs“ prie šios grupės.

Vairuotojų blaivumo kontrolė išlieka vienu svarbiausių policijos prioritetų. Nors ketvirtadienį Vilniuje surengtas reidas baigėsi džiuginančiais rezultatais, pareigūnai įspėja, kad atsipalaiduoti neverta – visą vasarą šalies keliuose bus vykdomos sustiprintos kontrolės priemonės.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday announced Ukraine-style autonomous trade measures for Armenia aimed at helping the country withstand growing economic pressure from Russia. Von der Leyen unveiled the package during a visit to Yerevan alongside Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, where the pair met Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The trip marks the first visit by a foreign leader since Pashinyan’s pro-European government secured another parliamentary majority last month, cementing Armenia’s shift away from Moscow. “The recent elections have shown the strength of Armenia’s democracy,” von der Leyen said, according to a press release. “The Armenian people have chosen reform and a closer partnership with our Union. No country should be pressured for a sovereign choice.” She added the EU was “stepping up” with the proposed trade rules alongside a €52 million support package previously announced in June. The autonomous measures — the same mechanism the EU previously deployed to support Ukraine’s economy — would liberalize around 80 percent of Armenian exports to the bloc once approved by the European Parliament and EU member states. Brussels argues the package is designed to help Armenian producers diversify away from the Russian market, particularly in sectors targeted by recent Russian trade restrictions. Earlier this year, Moscow temporarily blocked imports of Armenian flowers, prompting the EU to help exporters find alternative buyers inside the bloc. The trade package forms part of a broader €288 million EU support program for Armenia. A high-level EU-Armenia dialogue will take place in Yerevan later this year to review progress on economic reforms and deepen cooperation.

The leadership of the center-right European People’s Party in the European Parliament on Thursday proposed expelling Slovenian MEP Branko Grims over his contact with far-right lawmakers and for failing to follow the group’s voting line on key files. “The group’s leadership has put forward a proposal to expel Grims from the group, with a vote set to take place on Wednesday in Strasbourg,” EPP spokesperson Pedro López de Pablo told POLITICO.  Grims is a member of Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), but has long been seen as an outlier within the EPP, often aligning with parties further to the right and breaking ranks with his own group. Most notably, he signed a motion of censure against the European Commission, which fellow EPP member Ursula von der Leyen leads. The group “deplores the conduct of MEP Branko Grims and his lack of commitment towards the Group’s objectives and political priorities, which was shown by the repeated cooperation with the far right to the detriment of the Group line,” reads a draft resolution to be voted on by EPP lawmakers on Wednesday, obtained by POLITICO.  The group also “strongly regrets that MEP Branko Grims failed to serve the will of the Group in public and failed to meet the Group’s working practices and standards during crucial votes with reference, inter alia, to Rule of Law-related reports and Motions for Resolution,” the resolution reads.  In mid-May, Grims co-organized an event titled “Towards a right-wing majority in the EP” alongside members of the far-right Patriots and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) groups in which participants vowed to break the center-right’s longstanding firewall against cooperating with those parties, drawing the ire of the EPP leadership, which had denied him authorization to participate and forbidden him from using the EPP logo. The resolution also condemns Grims’ claims that the Digital Services Act enables “censorship” and his call to abolish the Court of Justice of the EU. It further notes that, during the Hungarian election campaign, he endorsed Viktor Orbán over EPP-affiliated Tisza leader Péter Magyar and has repeatedly co-signed written questions to the Commission drafted by lawmakers from the ESN group. The EPP has repeatedly relied on support from far-right groups to pass legislation, including on migration and measures to cut red tape for businesses.  While the group insists it has not systematically negotiated with the far right and merely benefited from its votes, that claim came under scrutiny in March when it emerged that EPP and far-right officials had actively coordinated on the returns regulation through a WhatsApp group. The revelation angered German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said the practice had to stop and held EPP leader Manfred Weber responsible.

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Police were called to supermarkets in the Paris area on Thursday as huge crowds descended on discount stores hoping to get hold of affordable air-cooling units before the third heatwave of the year engulfs the French capital this weekend.

Gold smuggling from DR Congo to Uganda is on the rise, according to a new UN report. Experts assessing the situation in the DRC for sanctions review pointed to discrepancies between Uganda’s stated gold production and its export levels in 2025.

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