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Immigration: the Balkan route stops in Trieste

The government and associations are at odds with dealing with the recent sharp increase in migrant crossings, like the fivefold increase in Trieste between 2021 and 2022, with the first favouring expulsions while the other advocates for greater redistribution across the country. On 3 January, the prefect of Trieste, Annunziato …

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Austrian FM defends Russian participation at OSCE meeting

Russian delegates should not be excluded from participating in the upcoming OSCE assembly meeting in Vienna, said Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg after parliamentarians from 20 OSCE countries urged his government last week to bar Russian diplomats from attending. The meeting will be held in Vienna on 23-24 February, exactly …

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‘Not an exercise’: Sweden deploys Patriots in strategic port

The Swedish Defence Forces deployed the advanced Patriot air defence system around the strategic Southern harbour of Gothenburg on Monday to see how it would respond to a crisis in the low likelihood Sweden is attacked. This is the first time the American Patriot air defence system – capable of …

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