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⚡️ russian propaganda has launched a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at justifying the massive strikes on civilian and cultural sites in Kyiv during the night of June 15 and evading responsibility for its own war crimes. Thread 1/8 ▶️

This afternoon, Parliament will vote on limiting the Hungarian Prime Minister’s term in office to a maximum of eight years, and we will also discuss the migrant camp planned by @PM_ViktorOrban.

The EU is considering sanctions against Patriarch Kirill again. It’s about time. Kirills church is de facto department of FSB. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, he has openly justified the war, blessed Russian troops, and supported the ideology of the so-called “Russian World” used to deny Ukraine’s right to exist as a separate nation. The Russian Orthodox Church even endorsed a document describing the invasion as a “Holy War.” As the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra comes under Russian attack, it is worth remembering that Ukrainian authorities uncovered pro-Russian networks operating from the Lavra during the full-scale invasion. Clergy who were FSB operatives were arrested. After Hungary’s veto is finally gone, the EU should act.

Today is Mega-Monday for EU enlargement. First, Ukraine and Moldova will take their biggest step since the decision to start EU accession negotiations in 2023. We will also close two more chapters with Montenegro, bringing it close to half of all chapters closed. It’s a day to celebrate. I’ll also use today to urge candidates to continue the pace of reforms. My doorstep ahead of the FAC ⤵️ newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/events/2026061…

Bonjour Mme Le Pen. Ça s’appelle le Plan Épargne Retraite, ça existe depuis 2019 dans un texte porté par Bruno Le Maire, Roland Lescure et Olivia Grégoire, et vous n’avez pas jugé utile de voter pour.

Europe’s black holes: The EU is moving to legalize offshore camps and strip migrants of their rights The EU’s new return regulation could expand offshore detention and migrant deportations, despite pushback from legal experts and human rights groups. theins.press/en/politics/29…

The "US biolabs in Ukraine" story is one of the Kremlin's oldest and most successful disinformation campaigns. The facilities in question were Ukrainian public health and veterinary laboratories supported by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to improve biosafety and disease surveillance. None of the publicly available documents show evidence of biological weapons. In Russian state media, these facilities are routinely described outright as "US bioweapons labs." Among pro-Kremlin influencers and politicians in the West, the messaging is often more subtle. They simply talk about "dangerous pathogens" and hint at unspecified sinister purposes, allowing audiences to draw their own conclusions. Yet Tulsi Gabbard, a long-time Russia supporter who met Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad twice and questioned the Assad regime's responsibility for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, is now presenting old public documents as newly "declassified evidence." In reality, ODNI simply re-stamped documents that had already been public for years. Many of the slides are excerpts from a Pentagon DTRA fact sheet released publicly in March 2022. Gabbard's office repackaged these documents and presented them alongside Russian fabrications as evidence of a sinister biolabs program. This shouldn't surprise anyone. When it comes to Ukraine, Gabbard has consistently echoed Kremlin talking points. She has argued that the US and NATO provoked Putin into invading Ukraine, framed the conflict as a US-Russia proxy war, claimed that sanctions hurt the West more than Russia, blamed an "elite cabal of warmongers" for the conflict, and suggested that peace negotiations should prioritize avoiding nuclear war. She has repeatedly claimed that the war could have been avoided by ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. But Putin himself made clear in his essays and speeches before the invasion that his goals went far beyond NATO and centered on denying Ukraine's right to exist as an independent nation. She has also dismissed allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election as a "manufactured hoax" and appeared as a speaker at the "antiwar" Rage Against the War Machine rally in 2023. Tulsi's only goal with all this is to hurt Ukraine and help Russia.

🇪🇺🇨🇦 The Council has concluded the EU-Canada agreement on the participation of Canadian companies in procurement under the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) instrument . Canada is the first non-European country to participate in the SAFE instrument. 🔗 link.europa.eu/fkrQ3M

Marta Kos says the new 🇪🇺 accession treaties (from Montenegro onwards) will include new safeguard clauses to "make sure that once we get new members on board, they will follow the European rules" 5, 10 or 15 years after joining.

Heavy attacks on Ukraine last night, with more civilians killed and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO site, seriously damaged. Today, G7 leaders meet in Evian. We will discuss the next steps to increase pressure on Russia, bring Putin to the negotiating table, and end this senseless killing. Europe wants peace. Nobody more than the Ukrainian people. Russia, on the other hand, showed again its sole interest in violence and destruction.

Je salue l’accord conclu entre les États-Unis et l’Iran, fruit d’un effort diplomatique auquel ont contribué plusieurs partenaires. J’appelle à sa mise en œuvre rapide et complète par tous les belligérants. Cet accord doit permettre la réouverture urgente et inconditionnelle du détroit d’Ormuz, que la mission internationale mise en place avec le Royaume-Uni est prête à accompagner. Les moyens sont en place et prêts à être engagés. La reprise du trafic maritime, sans restriction ni péage, est une condition indispensable à la stabilité régionale et à l’économie mondiale. Cet accord ouvre également la voie à une négociation globale au service de la paix et de la sécurité de tous au Moyen-Orient. Celle-ci devra permettre de répondre aux préoccupations liées aux programmes nucléaire et balistique de l’Iran, ainsi qu’à sa politique de déstabilisation régionale. C’est ainsi que nous pourrons bâtir une paix solide et durable. La France est disposée à y prendre toute sa part, aux côtés de ses partenaires. Elle continuera également à apporter son plein soutien aux efforts déterminés des autorités libanaises pour restaurer la souveraineté de l’État, qui est le seul à même d’assurer la stabilité et l’intégrité territoriale du Liban et de répondre aux besoins des populations. Un cessez-le-feu robuste et durable est pour cela indispensable.

Arrivé à Évian pour le G7.

An attack on democratic Europe. By someone who thinks that the EU and the Third Reich are comparable. (And that Höcke is the future of Germany.) @joerglau

Never forget that the DSA excused and supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and many of its members continue to do so to this very day.

Residents of Kyiv pouring into metro stations at this hour, as all indications are that Russia is setting up a massive overnight missile attack on Ukraine’s civilian population.

Russian services have started banning logins via Google Mail. Avito is already warning users that authorization via Gmail no longer complies with the law and companies face fines for this. The button is still there for now, but it clearly won't stay long.

La France aura beau conserver des avantages uniques (nucléaire, porte-avions, capacités de projection supérieures…), l’Allemagne est en train de rebâtir une armée de masse pour la défense du flanc Est. Même en jouant la complémentarité, cela va avoir des conséquences majeures.

Bonjour @jnbarrot , @SebLecornu, que fait cet agent du FSB en France ? #fedorovaOUT

ZELENSKYY: War will stop if Russia decides to stop. I understand what Russians and Americans discussed in Anchorage. Putin's lying to Trump. It's a mistake to negotiate about Ukraine without Ukraine, especially for U.S. We're ready to stop the war, but won't leave our territory.

Pete Hegseth is a petty loser