00:03Hungary and Slovakia have announced they are suspending diesel exports to Ukraine amid growing tensions over oil deliveries.
00:11They said they need to secure their energy supplies to replace imports of Russian oil through the damaged Druzhba pipeline.
00:18Oil transfers from Russia to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline were halted on the 27th of January.
00:24The Hungarian Foreign Minister stressed Budapest plays a major role in Ukraine's energy supply.
00:44He added that Hungary will not resume diesel deliveries to Ukraine until crude oil deliveries via the pipeline resume.
00:53The pipeline carrying them was damaged by a Russian airstrike in Ukrainian territory, according to media reports.
01:00Hungary and Slovakia also called on the European Commission to enable the transport of Russian crude oil.
01:06The Commission said on Tuesday that Hungary's and Slovakia's energy security was not at risk, citing sufficient reserves in both
01:14countries.
01:18The Trump administration has helped Europeans stop hitting the snooze button and wake up, U.S. Ambassador to the EU
01:26Andrew Posner told Euronews.
01:28He held U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's call for greater alignment between the two in his speech at
01:34the Munich Security Conference as positive for the transatlantic alliance.
01:39Posner also praised European progress in aligning its approach to migration policy with the U.S., pointing to what he
01:46thinks is one of Europe's key issues, the impact of mass migration.
01:50There's a difference between managed migration and mass migration, and I think what we've seen over the past decade is
01:55just flows of people coming onto the continent, and the reaction has not been positive.
02:02When probed with numbers showing that migrants' arrivals in the EU have in fact declined compared with previous years,
02:09Posner argued that Rubio was quotes talking about the impact of the past mass migration and the civilizational challenge that
02:16poses.
02:22Ukraine has imposed new sanctions against Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko for helping Russia to sustain its war against Ukraine.
02:32Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke to Euronews about her country's influence on Russia's war.
02:40Russia can use Belarus as a platform for pressure and even aggression against Europe.
02:46Under Lukashenko, Belarus has become deeply integrated into Russia's war machine.
02:51Russian troops train there, joint military infrastructure is being modernized.
02:57Russia has deployed nuclear weapons in Belarus and is building infrastructure for systems like the Russian missile.
03:05This creates direct threats not only to Ukraine, but also to Poland, the Baltic states and actually wider Europe.
03:12It shortens warning times and increases escalation risks.
03:17Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that without the assistance,
03:21the number of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure and railways in northern Ukraine would likely have been lower.
03:27Belarusian society is overwhelmingly against the war.
03:31The army's loyalty in such a scenario is not guaranteed.
03:35And Lukashenko understands that direct participation could destabilize his own regime.
03:41So, yes, Moscow will continue to pressure Minsk.
03:43But Belarus remains one of the weakest link in Russia's regional architecture.
03:49A democratic Belarus would remove major military footholds from Russia's western flank.
03:54This is why the Belarusian dimension must be part of any serious discussion about European security and the end of
04:02this war.
04:03The sanctions package comes after the U.S. eased some of its sanctions on Belarus,
04:08and the country joined the controversial Board of Peace introduced by President Donald Trump.
04:16Ukraine and Russia wrapped up the second day of the U.S. brokered talks in Geneva after just under two
04:22hours of talks on Wednesday.
04:25Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the negotiations included two tracks, military and political.
04:32All three sides were constructive on the military track, he said.
04:36But the political track is more complex, Zelenskyy admitted.
04:40He said this aspect includes issues related to Ukraine's territories temporarily occupied by Russia.
04:47Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky called the talks difficult but practical.
04:53Russia occupied territories of Ukraine remain the biggest sticking point in negotiations.
04:59Kyiv maintains that freezing current positions offers the most realistic foundation for a ceasefire at this stage.
05:06But Moscow is demanding that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the Donbass as a precondition for any agreement.
05:13This demand includes parts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which Russia never controlled and still cannot occupy despite 12
05:22years of attempts.
05:23Kyiv has repeatedly rejected this request.
05:31The European Commission has released a strategy to support eastern border regions struggling with economic decline,
05:39demographic pressure and hybrid threats stemming from the war in Ukraine.
05:4428 billion euros in loans will be distributed in cooperation with the European Investment Bank and the World Bank
05:52to revive investment and business activity in the affected regions.
05:56The nine EU member states set to benefit from the initiative called East Invest are Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
06:06Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
06:09The strategy also covers the European Drone Wall initiative to strengthen border security.
06:15Support for integrating Baltic electricity networks into the broader European grid and educational and employment programs aimed at addressing population
06:26decline in border areas.
06:28The detailed allocation of funds among member states has not yet been determined,
06:33but EU officials are expected to meet country representatives at an East Invest event scheduled for the end of February.
06:47The European Central Bank has denied reports that its president Christine Lagarde would resign before the end of her term.
06:54Reports on Wednesday indicated Christine Lagarde could vacate her Frankfurt seat before the French elections in April 2027,
07:01a month before her mandate expires in October 2027.
07:05The European Central Bank asserted that no decision has been made and that the president is focused on her mission
07:12in a response to Euronews.
07:13Lagarde would allow outgoing French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to oversee the appointment of her successor.
07:21With Macron constitutionally barred from running for a third term, fears are mounting in Brussels and Paris regarding the rise
07:28of the far-right party's national rally and the alternative for Germany.
07:32Class note, the former Dutch Central Bank chief and Pablo Hernandez de Kos, the former governor of the Bank of
07:37Spain,
07:38are the most probable successor to Christine Lagarde according to a Financial Times poll.
07:46Romania's highest court has ruled a law reforming pensions for judges and prosecutors as constitutional,
07:52with the bill now set to be signed into law by the president.
07:55The new legislation raises the retirement age from 50 to 65 and limits pensions to no more than 70%
08:02of the salary they receive in the final month of services.
08:05Now we can't allow people to pension people in the plinitate of physical and intellectuals in the 50, 51 or
08:1452 years of age.
08:15In March, we will come with a proposal that will continue the corrections.
08:34The adoption of the draft law is necessary to access the EU funding through its recovery and resilience funds, which
08:41amounts to 231 million euros.
08:52After five postponements, the Romanian constitutional court sent the law that changes magistrate pensions to promulgation.
09:00In practice, the payments will be kept to 70% of the last net salary.
09:05At the moment, a retired judge or prosecutor can get more than 4,000 euros, while the average pension in
09:11Romania is about 500 euros.
09:14At the same time, Romania is trying to unlock now 231 million euros that are tied to this reform.
09:21Ruth Novakovic for Euronews.
09:25Four departments in Western France remain on red alert for flooding until Thursday,
09:31and nine others are on orange alert for rain and flooding with the arrival of Storm Pedro.
09:37After a lull on Tuesday afternoon, Meteo France announced further widespread disruption in the west of the country.
09:44Already experiencing some of its worst flooding in decades after days of rain,
09:49authorities have spoken of record levels of humidity not seen since 1959 and linked it to climate change.
09:56Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Lotte-Garonne, and Maine-et-Loire are the departments most affected.
10:03The flood waters forced the evacuation of nearly 2,000 residents between Agen and Bordeaux
10:09and caused thousands of power outages, officials said.
10:13The French government said it will provide support to communities affected by the bad weather.
10:18With most of France still on flood alert,
10:21weather authorities have said Storm Pedro, arriving from Brittany,
10:24is set to impact France on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing another bout of heavy rainfall and winds.
10:34The European Commissioner for Sport has condemned the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Milan-Kotina Paralympic Games
10:42under their national flags.
10:44Glenn Mikhelev has announced a boycott of the opening ceremony for that reason.
10:49While Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine continues, I cannot support the reinstatement of national symbols, flags, anthems and uniforms
10:57that are inseparable from that conflict he wrote on X.
11:02Russians and Belarusians have been prohibited from competing under their flags in the Olympics and Paralympics since Russia's full-scale
11:10invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
11:12They are, however, allowed to participate as individual neutral athletes, a category that allows people who have qualified for the
11:22Games to join the competition under certain conditions,
11:25such as not actively supporting the invasion and not being contracted to the Russian or Belarusian military or national security
11:33agencies.
11:34These conditions were applied in Paris 2024 and are also the rules for the current Milan-Kotina Olympics, with 13
11:43Russian and 7 Belarusian athletes participating in the competition.
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