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• Under the proposed changes published on Tuesday, the EU would base compliance with the CO2 rules for 2025 on a carmaker's average emissions over the period 2025-2027, rather than just this year.

• The Czech Republic, a hub for car manufacturing, has previously said it would push for a five-year compliance period.

• Volkswagen and Renault are among those that have expressed support for extending the compliance period

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60133446

• Under the proposed changes published on Tuesday, the EU would base compliance with the CO2 rules for 2025 on a carmaker's average emissions over the period 2025-2027, rather than just this year.

• The Czech Republic, a hub for car manufacturing, has previously said it would push for a five-year compliance period.

• Volkswagen and Renault are among those that have expressed support for extending the compliance period

• Under the proposed changes published on Tuesday, the EU would base compliance with the CO2 rules for 2025 on a carmaker's average emissions over the period 2025-2027, rather than just this year.

• The Czech Republic, a hub for car manufacturing, has previously said it would push for a five-year compliance period.

• Volkswagen and Renault are among those that have expressed support for extending the compliance period

India and China have made "promising" beginnings to repair their ties in the last five months and a "durable base" for rebuilding the relations depends on a threefold formula of mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the development of India-China ties was conducive for a stable and multipolar world

Finland plans to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel landmines

Poland and the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said last month they will withdraw from the convention

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60080304

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27863813

France has long tried to balance two contradictory roles with Algeria: a fair-weather friend and a former coloniser that never truly let go. However, as the right wing reshapes the political mainstream in Paris, Algerians in France say they are being scapegoated in the name of 'national security.'

On 8 March, Michel Onfray, a prominent French essayist, declared on CNEWS—a far-right-leaning channel often compared to America’s Fox News—that "the danger in France now is Algerian."

Once confined to the fringes, this rhetoric is now seeping into Matignon (France's 10 Downing Street), with supposedly centrist ministers inching ever closer to the right.

On 24 February, Prime Minister François Bayrou lashed out at Algerian authorities for their "unacceptable" refusal—ten times over—to issue a consular pass for the return of a 37-year-old Algerian national ordered to leave French territory.

Algeria has also refused to accept the return of two of its nationals arrested in France for inciting violence online.

In response, Bayrou, backed by his cabinet, is now threatening to scrap the 1968 Franco-Algerian agreement, which grants Algerians special immigration privileges, as retaliation for Algiers' reluctance to take back its nationals.