The EU and Iceland have announced negotiations on a Security and Defense Partnership Agreement, aimed at deepening cooperation and giving Iceland access to the EU's €150 billion SAFE programme for joint defence procurement.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the deal would bring Iceland into the EU’s wider defence network, alongside Norway, the UK and Canada.
At a joint press conference in Brussels, von der Leyen also cited growing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic as a reason to review the EU’s Arctic strategy.
Iceland’s Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir said the talks should conclude by the end of 2025 and would strengthen cooperation on cyber, hybrid threats and critical infrastructure.
Frostadottir clarified that Iceland’s planned referendum by 2027 is only about resuming EU accession talks, not about joining the bloc itself.
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Delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the United States met in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday for their first formal talks in nine months. They did so with no agreement on what a ceasefire would be tied to or who gets to keep the land currently under Russian control.
At least 17 people have been reported killed in an explosion at a steel plant in western Türkiye, after a crane collapsed during maintenance work. The disaster has prompted a criminal investigation into what went wrong at the industrial facility.
Russia and Ukraine are set to return to Abu Dhabi on Tuesday for a fourth round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, with European participation, security guarantees and territorial disputes expected to shape the negotiations.
U.S. envoy Jared Kushner said Washington believes the Russian President is prepared to reach a peace agreement under the right conditions, as U.S., Russian and Ukrainian delegations began trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday 10 November.
Armenia could lose its voting rights within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on 11 November after failing to pay membership fees for more than two years, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
On 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan launched military operations along the line of contact in Garabagh and the surrounding districts - internationally recognised Azerbaijani territories that had remained under Armenian control since the 1994 ceasefire.
Bangladesh has rejected ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's application for a new passport, casting doubt on her planned return from exile in India this December, more than two years after a student-led uprising toppled her government.
Russia has denied any involvement with a senior U.S. soldier who was arrested in Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence. His arrest came a day after the United States moved aircraft out of a British air base over an apparent threat from Iran.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has arrested two people accused of working for Polish intelligence and gathering information on military facilities in the western Kaliningrad region.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland issued drone alerts and imposed temporary security restrictions overnight on Wednesday as Russia and Ukraine traded strikes, fuelling fears that the conflict could spill over into neighbouring NATO countries.
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