WAR IN UKRAINE:
Ukraine’s interior minister was among at least 15 people killed on Wednesday morning (18 January) when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv. The loss of the leadership of one of Ukraine’s security ministries will have an immediate effect on the war effort. The interior ministry was responsible for coordinating the national guard, border-guard service, police, emergency services and part of the country’s territorial-defence forces. More here, with EURACTIV, or check other sources below.
Zelenskyy renews call for western tanks at Davos, while Germany's Scholz still stalling on the deploy of Leopard 2 Tanks to Ukraine - also reported by the Financial Times. Tanks could help Kyiv expel Russia rather than just resist it, read more on the Military briefing article.
QATARGATE UPDATE :
EP TRANSPARENCY: In a transparency effort, Metsola declared the gifts she received from foreign dignitaries, still missing the deadline imposed by the Parliament. Under Parliament’s code of conduct for members, gifts should be disclosed at the latest by the end of the month following the month in which MEPs received them.
Terry Reintke, co-president of the Greens group, said Metsola’s disclosures showed the need for an independent EU ethics body based outside the Parliament. “Transparency should apply to all so it’s good that she’s making it public now,” Reintke said.
“I think that it also shows that we just need a much better enforcement of the rules and that we cannot leave everything up to internal scrutiny structures.” - Terry Reintke.
FOLLOW-UP: Italian Finance police arrests Panzeri's accountant.
JACINTA ARDEN, NEW ZEALAND PM SAYS SHE WILL STEP DOWN
Ms. Ardern, a global liberal icon who has faced rising political headwinds at home, will leave office by Feb. 7, she said.
Ms. Ardern, 42, became prime minister in 2017 and won a historic re-election victory in 2020, largely on the strength of New Zealand’s response to Covid, which allowed residents to live a mostly normal life for much of the pandemic. But her party has since fallen sharply in the polls amid economic troubles and some highly publicized instances of violent crime.
“I believe that leading a country is the most privileged job anyone could ever have, but also one of the more challenging (...). You cannot and should not do it unless you have a full tank plus a bit in reserve for those unexpected challenges.”
Jacinda Ardern
Alerte jaune sur toute la Belgique: Le risque d’averses hivernales augmentera durant la soirée et en début de nuit.
EU INSTITUTIONS
EU BUDGET
MIGRATION SURGE
EU Asylum Agency
EU countries plus Norway and Switzerland received more than 107,000 asylum applications in November, according to new data, a record high since 2016 and the third consecutive month with around 100,000 applications. That doesn’t include tens of thousands of Ukrainians who registered for temporary protection.
More here, with FT.
Lifestyle Habits of the World’s Healthiest, Longest-Lived People
Knowing your sense of purpose is worth up to seven years of extra life expectancy.
This year, over 70,000 Americans have reached their 100th birthday. What are they doing that the average American isn’t?
To answer the question, we teamed up with National Geographic to find the world’s longest-lived people and study them. We knew most of the answers lied within their lifestyle and environment (the Danish Twin Study established that only about 20% of how long the average person lives is determined by genes).
>Read more with Blue Zones.
Discover the ANEW model of mastery : “aspiration, neutral self-awareness, endless curiosity and willingness to be bad first" - to tackle new challenges! Learning how to be bad first can take off much of the pressure related with new and intimidating tasks and being a perfectionist! Find out more on getAbstract.com
This week, an interesting op-ed about the importance of infrastructure and rail construction for Ukraine - rather than tanks
Moreover, a look into Macron's proposed pension age reform, with a positive article on one hand and a detailing of the citizenship's harsh reactions on the other.
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