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00:00The European Union will ban Russian gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas from

00:06entering the bloc by the end of 2026 and mid-2027. There will be exceptions for Hungary

00:13and Slovakia, which will be allowed to tap Moscow's gas in case of supply disruption.

00:19Despite this, Hungary has said it will challenge the law at the European Court of Justice.

00:23This has been a very short night for the negotiators, but today is indeed a historic day for our

00:32union. Last night, we reached a provisional agreement on the Commission's proposal to

00:37fully phase out Russian fossil fuels. We're turning that page and we're turning it for

00:44good. This is the dawn of a new era, the era of Europe's full energy independence from Russia.

00:53Breaking free from Russian energy imports has been a priority for the EU since Russia's invasion

00:58of Ukraine in 2022. Ever since, the EU has announced various measures to diversify energy

01:05suppliers and reduce reliance on Russia. As we slashed Russian imports of fossil fuels

01:11massively, we also cut the revenues that Russia uses to wage its war of aggression against Ukraine.

01:18We were paying to Russia 12 billion euros per month at the beginning of the war for fossil fuels.

01:29Now we're down to 1.5 billion per month, still too much. We aim to bring it down to zero.

01:36EU countries will now be required to develop national diversification plans with concrete actions and

01:41timelines to cease imports of Russian natural gas and oil by March 1, 2026.

01:52European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that Belgium will receive

01:56sweeping guarantees in order to unblock a controversial reparations loan for Ukraine.

02:03Belgium remains opposed to the scheme, which would channel frozen Russian assets to cover Ukraine's

02:08financial and military needs for the next two years. The bulk of the assets, about 185 billion euros,

02:14are held at Euroclear, a central securities depository in Brussels.

02:19We have listened very carefully to Belgium's concerns, and we have taken almost all of them

02:26into account in our proposal that is today on the table of the reparations loans.

02:32We have very strong safeguards in place to protect member states and to reduce the risks as much as possible.

02:42The reparations loan is von der Leyen's preferred option to cover the 90 billion euros Europe is

02:48meant to contribute to funding for Ukraine. Since the start of discussions in September,

02:54Belgium has demanded all-encompassing guarantees from other member states to shield itself against

02:59retaliation from Moscow and prevent multi-billion euro losses. If no deal is found on the reparations

03:06loan, the EU will resort to joint borrowing, as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

03:11The guarantees outlined on Wednesday present the Commission's most comprehensive attempt

03:16to overcome Belgium's resistance before a crucial EU summit on the 18th of December.

03:25The EU is proposing a new strategy to protect the European economy from coercive trade measures

03:30in third countries. The European security doctrine is the European Commission's policy to lower

03:35dependencies on countries such as China and the US, where recent actions have raised concerns

03:40about hostile or coercive measures which could seriously harm European industry. The doctrine

03:46recommends, among other things, that member states and businesses diversify supply chains in areas

03:51such as critical raw materials, rare earths, semiconductors and technology chips. A recent

03:57confrontation between the Chinese and Dutch governments threatened the global automotive industry.

04:02EU Trade Commissioner Mara Szefkovic said this incident was an example of why dependencies are a

04:07vulnerability for Europe. I think that it just put into the new limelight the importance of the economic

04:14security for the European Union and it just showed that dependencies could be very dangerous, could be

04:22very expensive. From the longer term perspective, I think what is very important is that we would also

04:27diversify and increase the number of suppliers of, in this case, legacy chips, but I can speak

04:35about critical raw minerals, I can speak about sensitive technologies because simply when you are reliable,

04:41just not one supplier, usually it presents, it also presents a lot of risks.

04:47At the same time, you can do all these trade deals with other countries, let's say, away from China,

04:52China, you can have an economic security doctrine, but really businesses will decide who they want to

04:58do their trade with and often they'll choose price over standards or over security and that often means China.

05:05Yes, you're absolutely right and I think that we are also with this communication trying to bring the new light

05:11to the economic security aspect of the business. I think that you see it everywhere in the world,

05:18you see it in the US, you see it in Japan. I think that this economic security risk premium

05:26must be more and more factored in the business plans of European companies. Simply, we need to learn

05:33how to be alerted about the possible shortcomings, we have to learn how to stockpile critical raw materials

05:40or sensitive products and we have to be also maybe ready to pay more for the investments,

05:47but also for the procuring of the critical minerals or critical components from various sources because

05:57this is how you can guarantee your business continuity.

06:04The European Union has issued updated guidance for asylum applications by Syrian nationals

06:10that reflects new conditions in Syria a year after the fall of former long-time leader Bashar al-Assad.

06:18The changes may influence the result of asylum requests of some 110,000 Syrians who were still

06:24awaiting an asylum decision at the end of September. When Syria's civil war started in 2011, 23 million people

06:33were displaced and 5 million Syrians fled to neighboring countries and Europe. The number of Syrians requesting

06:41asylum dropped significantly from 16,000 in October 2024, before the fall of al-Assad in December,

06:49to 3,500 in September 2025. The European Union Agency for Asylum said opponents of al-Assad and military

06:58service evaders are no longer at risk of persecution. But the agency said other groups may be considered

07:05at risk in the post-Assad Syria, including people affiliated with the former government and members

07:11of the Alawites, Christians and Druze ethnic religious groups.

07:20Farmers in northern Greece disrupted traffic at border crossings on Wednesday in an escalating protest

07:27over delayed European Union-backed subsidy payments linked to an investigation into a corruption scandal.

07:34In the northern city of Ceres, farmers carried out symbolic road blockades and some bypassed

07:40police checkpoints as they marched towards the Permaturness Customs Office. Meanwhile,

07:46Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the government is open to dialogue but warned against

07:52disruptive protests.

07:54We are always open for a set of dialogue. But I think that the farmers also believe that the

08:00farmers will understand that the extreme energies, the torrent closed closed, closed closed closed,

08:07closed closed closed, closed closed closed, closed closed closed. These energies that do not help

08:12prevent their efforts from other public groups.

08:18More often, when the government has determined that December will be a month of an essential

08:27expansion of their investment with a significant amount of pressure.

08:31Protests by farmers are common in Greece, but the latest scandal prompted the resignation in June of five senior government officials

08:40and led to the phased shutdown of the agency handling farm subsidies.

08:47The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications, including green card and U.S. citizenship processing,

08:55filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, including Afghanistan and Somalia.

09:02According to an official memo, the new policy stems from the attack on U.S. National Guard members in Washington last week,

09:10in which an Afghan man was arrested as a suspect.

09:13Trump also stepped up his rhetoric against Somalis, disparaging the country and accusing Somali immigrants of not contributing to U.S. welfare.

09:22I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you.

09:26Somebody would say, oh, that's not politically correct. I don't care.

09:29I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason.

09:33Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country.

09:36I can say that about other countries, too.

09:39According to U.S. media reports, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE,

09:43has been directed by the Trump administration to target undocumented Somali immigrants in Minneapolis,

09:50home to the largest Somali immigrant population in the U.S.

09:54Many of the migrants who moved from Somalia to the U.S. left in the 1990s during the country's decades-long civil war.

10:02The Bulgarian Council of Ministers has withdrawn the controversial draft budget for 2026

10:11after immense domestic pressure and major protests.

10:14The budget proposed a steep rise in taxes and social security contributions,

10:20which would mainly affect workers and ordinary people.

10:23The reversal was announced on Tuesday after more than 100,000 people stormed the streets nationwide on Monday night to oppose it.

10:31The protests were organized by the main opposition coalition between the We Continue the Change

10:54and Democratic Bulgaria parties, who are now calling for the government's resignation in early elections.

11:00We saw that the government, this time, may have heard the protests and cut the budget.

11:08This could be eliminated if it was happened last week.

11:13It's already later.

11:16We heard the people of the protests.

11:19The people of the protests want the rest of this government

11:22and the exit of Boris Yipaevsky from the Bulgarian politics.

11:26Prime Minister Zeliazkoff has ruled out the government's resignation,

11:31citing a need for stability as the country prepares to enter the eurozone.

11:36Sofia is set to adopt the euro from the 1st of January.

11:39And he's in the reported for the forosta.

11:40It's going to be a country's anniversary.

11:41And it will also be a country.

11:43A country's anniversary is celebrated.

11:44A country's anniversary is a very popular event for us,

11:44and they're considering the European companies.

11:46He does not feel a country's anniversary.

11:47So, according to his например,

11:47the culture of the restaurant has been created,

11:48a country's american country.

11:49It's been really popular for the country.

11:50That country is accredited.

11:50The country's wedding company,

11:51and the country's wedding,

11:51the country's wedding,

11:53the country's wedding,

11:54and was married.

11:54And he is a country-owned man.

11:55It's a country-owned church.

11:55So,

11:57I can't see it.

11:58And so,

12:00he's got a country-owned,

12:00and he's got a country-owned.

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