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Riot police deployed tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tbilisi, enraged by the Georgian government’s u-turn on its EU accession bid.

Less than six months after its general election, the UK has been tipped headfirst into a fraught debate on a matter of life and death. 🔗 https://trib.al/9okdNEb

Anger with the high poverty rate may be partly behind Romania’s swing to the far right in the first round of the presidential election. Just look at how the country compares to the rest of the EU 👇 But other issues are frustrating voters, too: https://trib.al/z1q3A5J

Irish-American communities once helped raise funds to support the IRA, a militant group active well into the 1990s whose stated goal was to kick the British out of Northern Ireland and reunify the island. While the money for violence may have stopped flowing, support for Irish nationalism has continued — and it goes all the way up to the White House. 🔗 https://trib.al/ntjet9s

In tonight's London Playbook: 🗣️ Keir Starmer tried to seize the immigration narrative. 💷 The government promised a review on how local councils are funded. 🗡️ Nigel Farage revealed his latest Conservative conquest. Dig in 👇

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in October that EU capitals should consider creating “return hubs” in third countries to speed up ejections of undocumented migrants. Her own migration chief isn’t so sure that will work.

Romania’s top national security officials said today they had found cyberattacks intended to influence the fairness of the country's first presidential election round on Sunday.

X "strives to be the town square of the internet by promoting and protecting freedom of expression," the Elon Musk-owned company told the European Commission in a legally mandated risk assessment made public this week.

TotalEnergies has welcomed a Mozambican government offer to allow an investigation into allegations of a massacre at its gas megaproject in northern Mozambique.

Georgia has decided to pause its European Union accession efforts and reject EU grants in response to a European Parliament resolution that denounced the country's recent parliamentary election as being “neither free nor fair.”