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Europe Tightens Purse Strings to Try to Pressure Poland and Hungary
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European Budget Committee Links UNRWA Aid to Erasure of Anti-Israel Incitement: JNS, Oct. 1, 2021 — The European Parliament Committee on Budgets passed an amendment to withhold more than $23 million in financial aid to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees unless anti-Israel incitement is removed from textbooks used by the Palestinian Authority.
Belgian Court Upholds Ban On Religious Slaughter: Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post, Oct. 2, 2021 — The Constitutional Court of Belgium has upheld a verdict of the European Court of Justice which ruled that member states of the European Union can ban religious slaughter done without pre-stunning.
The Post-Merkel Return of German Ideologies: Adam Tooze, Foreign Policy, Sept. 17, 2021 – In what may be her last speech to the Budestag, last week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to voters to give their vote to Armin Leschet to be her successor as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.
Europe’s Power Crisis Is An Expensive Reminder That Renewable Energy Has Its Limits: Eric Reguly, The Globe and Mail, Sept. 20, 2021 — Europe’s power crisis was just a matter of time – and that time has come.
