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The Quest For Cheaper And Faster Cross-Border Payments: Regional And Global Solutions - Speech By Piero Cipollone, Member Of The Executive Board Of The ECB, At The BIS Annual General Meeting, Basel, 27 June 2025
Mondovisione
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Piero Cipollone Member of the ECB's Executive Board Cross-border retail payments are the subject of increasing attention. This is for two main reasons. First, they play a growing role in the world economy, as international transaction volumes have...
Over 60 States across regions pay tribute to women human rights defenders
International Service for Human Rights
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June 27, 2025
Crucially, the statement highlights not only the positive contributions of women human rights defenders, and the threats they face, but it also focuses on their needs and the indispensable resources required for them to deliver transformative...
Paraguay Welcomes Europe: EU Investment Forum Paraguay 2025 Sparks New Partnership
The Asunción Times
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June 26, 2025
The European Union Delegation in Paraguay, in collaboration with the Investment and Export Network (REDIEX) of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC), hosted the European Investment Forum Paraguay 2025 at the Institute of the Central Bank of...
At Christo and Jeanne-Claude Centre in Gabrovo, BTA Launches Its New LIK Issue Dedicated to Pioneering Artistic Duo
Bulgarian News Agency
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BTA launched Wednesday the June issue of its LIK magazine paying tribute to Bulgarian-born pioneering art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 2025 celebrates the artists’ 90th birth anniversary. It also marks three major anniversaries related to the...
Proposed defence spending hike to 5% of GDP exposes divisions among Nato members
BNE Intellinews
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Nato leaders are poised to endorse a landmark agreement to raise the alliance's collective defence investment target to 5% of GDP, as the Alliance faces mounting global security threats. The endorsement, expected at the Nato summit in The Hague on...
When leisure turns lethal
Daily Star
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June 14, 2025
We just came back from a trip to Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia. The boat driver was surprised by our over-insistence on wearing life jackets, despite the water appearing shallow and calm and the imported boat being highly reliable. We told him...
Promoting democracy: still a goal of Swiss foreign policy
Swissinfo
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June 13, 2025
A polling station in Skopje during 2024 elections: Switzerland has supported the parliament in North Macedonia on administrative and legal issues for 15 years. Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language...
A delicate export: how Swiss foreign policy promotes democracy
Swissinfo
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June 13, 2025
A polling station in Skopje during 2024 elections: Switzerland has supported the parliament in North Macedonia on administrative and legal issues for 15 years. Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language...
Western Balkan coal plants cut harmful emissions in 2024 but breaches remain extreme
Balkan Green Energy News
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June 18, 2025
In 2024, Western Balkan governments’ chronic law enforcement failures allowed sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution from the region’s antiquated coal power plants to exceed legal limits by six times, according to the Comply or Close report. Particulate...
Jakucionis making good on yearlong draft hype
The News Gazette - Illinois
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To subscribe, please click here Want a copy of today's edition? Here's a map of single-copy locations CHAMPAIGN — Not a moment passed during Kasparas Jakucionis’ 10 months with the Illinois basketball program where the Lithuanian guard wasn’t...
CoA leads int'l meet on public debt management trends
The Manila Times
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June 25, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines' audit commission led this year's meeting of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (Intosai) Working Group on Public Debt (WGPD) held in Bucharest, Romania. The hybrid meet last week,...
Bosnia’s coal plants the biggest polluters in Western Balkans, CEE Bankwatch survey shows
BNE Intellinews
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Coal plants in Bosnia & Herzegovina were the biggest SO2 emitters in the Western Balkans in 2024, according to a survey by CEE Bankwatch, an environmental NGO. Last year, Bosnian plants emitted 212,840 tonnes of SO2 – 11.3 times higher than the...
SAI Philippines leads international meet on global trends in public debt management and the role of SAIs
Business World
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June 25, 2025
The Commission on Audit (CoA), the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of the Philippines, led the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Working Group on Public Debt (WGPD) held in Bucharest,...
WEF: Global energy transition picks up pace
Balkan Green Energy News
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June 19, 2025
The report, titled Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025, tracks the performance of energy systems of 118 countries across three dimensions – security, sustainability, and equity. The equity segment showed the strongest gains, thanks to...
Leaders Commemorate Dayton Peace Accords
MilitarySpot - Alabama
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June 12, 2025
JUNE 12, 2025 – Presidents, Heads of State and dignitaries from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and U.S. Congress visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May 25, to commemorate the signing of...
“Co-creation” boosts commercial technology for dual-use defense applications
Breaking Defense
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June 12, 2025
Brave Partner is a U.S. Army Europe and Africa scheduled, directed, and led short notice action planning (SNAP) exercise, which includes live-fire training and is designed to demonstrate USAREUR-AF’s operational reach, validate U.S. investments in...
Philippines leads meet on global trends in public debt management
Philippine STAR
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June 25, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA), the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of the Philippines, led the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Working Group on Public Debt (WGPD)...
Algorithmic bias: Platform capitalism, data and reality
Bianet
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July 1, 2025
According to data from Duke University Reporters' Lab, there are 443 platforms actively engaged in fact-checking worldwide (Duke Reporters' Lab, 2025). These organizations play an important role in combating disinformation; however, their...
Feral knowledge
Psyche
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June 23, 2025
Two years ago, while on a stroll through Pristina in Kosovo, I was attacked by a pack of feral dogs. I was lucky: although the whole pack rushed me – right in the middle of Pristina’s most central park, in the presence of other people, on a sunny...
Anti-misinformation alliance offers journalists scientific backup and funding
Journalism
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June 25, 2025
Credit: Google_FX A new €2.7 million initiative invites European journalists to ditch the traditional "quick quote" approach and develop proper partnerships with researchers. The European Journalism Centre, in partnership with NOVA University of...