AGP Executive Report
Last update: a few seconds agoHeat Death Toll: Provisional EuroMomo figures say Europe logged over 32,000 excess deaths between mid-July and mid-August, with AFP tallying about 33,000 heat-linked deaths across eight countries—Germany alone estimates around 14,000—highlighting how drought and wildfires are turning extreme summer into a public-health emergency. EU Energy Tax Push: Six EU finance ministers (Germany, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Italy, Poland) renewed calls for an EU-wide excess profit tax on oil firms, arguing crisis profits should be used to cut the burden on households and businesses. Migration Friction: A new dispute is brewing over Dublin returns: Spain wants EU solidarity mechanisms instead of bilateral returns, while Italy faces a growing backlog of transfer requests. West Bank Tensions: The EU Commission joined other condemnations of Israel’s E1 settlement tender plan, calling it unacceptable and warning it undermines the two-state solution. Barcelona Protest Fallout: Barcelona’s city council will send “racist and xenophobic” messages from a “Save Europe Act” rally to prosecutors, saying the slogans could amount to hate crime. Arctic Shipping Test: South Korea’s PanStar Acro has begun a first commercial Arctic route trial to Europe, aiming to cut distance versus Suez and reduce transit time.
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