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🔴 BREAKING 🔴 PM Meloni’s government suffers a surprise defeat in the Chamber of Deputies. The ruling majority lost a key secret ballot on the electoral law amendment for preference voting (188 to 187), with apparent defections inside the coalition.

This is shocking. At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."

We’re sanctioning Russia at speed and scale. Today’s measures, together with the upcoming 21st sanctions package, will add 250 individuals and entities to the Russia sanctions regime. This is our biggest round of individual designations since Moscow’s 2022 full-scale invasion, and includes also the EU’s largest-ever cyber sanctions package. The financial backbone of Russia’s war machine is the main target. Every measure weakens Moscow’s ability to wage war. My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Today all 🇪🇺 member states agreed to: - Open Cluster 6 for 🇺🇦 and 🇲🇩 - Close chapters 8 and 29 for 🇲🇪 - Close chapters 25, 26 and 30 for 🇦🇱 Building momentum for Enlargement, and demonstrating the importance 🇮🇪 places on Enlargement during our Presidency.