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World leaders including Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin and Hungarian President Viktor Orban arrive at an European Union summit in Brussels on a hectic day of diplomacy as Western Leaders gather for emergency summits of NATO, the G7 group and the European Union in response to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
Brussels (Belgium), Feb 18 (EFE) .- The European Union (EU) added Panama once again to its blacklist of tax havens, which the country left in January 2018, arguing that it does not comply with the OECD Global Forum rules on transparency and exchange of fiscal information. INCLUDES RESOURCE HANDOUT BY EBS SOUNDBITES OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, VALDIS DOMBROVSKIS.
The multinational technology company Apple has been ordered to repay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in tax benefits back to the Republic of Ireland due to an "illegal" breach of EU state aid rules, confirmed European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager from Brussels, Tuesday.
Belgian prosecutors have opened a probe into Russian "interference" in the European Parliament following allegations lawmakers were paid to spread Kremlin propaganda, Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says. "Our judicial authorities have now confirmed this interference is subject to prosecution," De Croo said. "The cash payments did not take place in Belgium, but the interference does. As Belgium is the seat of the EU institutions, we have a responsibility to uphold every citizen's right to a free and safe vote." SOUNDBITE
European leaders arrive for an Extraordinary European Summit on aid to Ukraine in Brussels, with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen among the arrivals. IMAGES
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