—🇷🇴/🇬🇧 NEW: A new report highlights a major economic contribution from the Romanian community in the UK, revealing they hold the highest employment rate among all migrant groups.

➡️ 349,700 Romanians are currently employed in the UK, representing an 80.4% employment rate.

➡️ Romanian citizens paid £2.4 billion in taxes and social contributions between 2019 and 2020.

➡️ Romanians make up 19% of London’s construction workforce, while 6,575 are employed in the NHS, a figure that has doubled in recent years.

➡️ Romanian entrepreneurs are also becoming increasingly active in high-tech startups, including robotics, AI, fintech, cybersecurity, energy, and research.

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—❗️🇺🇸🤝🇹🇷 NEW: Trump announces the U.S. will lift all sanctions on Turkey. —Polymarket

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—🇧🇬 NEW: Bulgaria's Minister of Internal Affairs revealed during a parliamentary hearing that the ministry is investigating the finances of sanctioned politician Delyan Peevski, uncovering more than 227 private flights to Dubai, Greece, and Turkey between 2016 and 2026.

➡️ The flights, which cost an estimated €1.8 million, also included a roster of over 80 travel companions.

➡️ Notably among them was Desislava Atanasova from the GERB party, who logged a joint flight with Peevski just days before assuming her current role as an acting Judge on the Constitutional Court.

➡️ The revelation has sparked intense scrutiny in Sofia over why a high-profile politician sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act was sharing luxury travel routes with a future constitutional arbiter.

ℹ️ Information reported by our source in Bulgaria.

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—🇫🇷/🇷🇴 NEW: The French Embassy has decorated 16 Romanian police officers following the successful capture of notorious Algerian drug lord Mohamed Amra in Bucharest.

➡️ Amra, who had been hiding in the Romanian capital after a violent and high-profile escape from a prison transport in France, was apprehended during a coordinated security operation.

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—❗️🇪🇺 NEW: The European Parliament has voted to advance final negotiations for the official launch of the "Digital Euro," targeting a full rollout by 2029.

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—🇬🇷 WATCH: A fire broke out on a Greek Air Force F-16 fighter jet following an emergency landing at Zakynthos Airport.

➡️ Emergency response teams were quickly deployed to the scene to contain the blaze, and no casualties have been reported so far.

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—🇹🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: Turkey is set to announce the sale of its Russian-made S-400 air defense missile batteries to the United Arab Emirates.

➡️ The strategic move is directly aimed at resolving a years-long defense dispute with Washington and lifting the subsequent US restrictions that blocked the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Ankara.

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—🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇹🇷 Insider Wire: "Iran planned to assassinate President Trump during his visit to Turkey."

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—🇺🇸/🇲🇰/🇽🇰 FACT: Recently deceased US Senator Lindsey Graham's historical record in the Balkans includes a 1999 visit to Macedonia, where he met with Albanian refugees and advocated for direct US military assistance to regional allies.

➡️ Additionally, Graham visited Kosovo in 2007 as part of a US congressional delegation, during which he strongly voiced his support for the country's independence path.

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