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Ryanair has been forced to cancel 400 flights as a result of strikes by French air traffic controllers, the airline's boss has said, as he urged the European Union to take action.The mass cancellations across Europe on Tuesday representing one in eight flights scheduled by the continent's largest airline are merely the latest to be grounded by industrial action, with walkouts at airports blamed by Ryanair for more than 4,000 cancellations this year so far.

1. Moldova is pressing for a faster EU membership process, with its leader attending a summit in Chisinau to discuss the issue.
2. EU officials have acknowledged Moldova’s progress in implementing reforms in areas such as justice, the rule of law and public administration.

33 minutes ago33 minutes ago The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday to underline the EU's support for Ukraine on Europe Day.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen marked Europe Day in Ukraine's capital Kyiv where she met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the EU announces a new plan for cleaner tech; the latest IPA Bellwether Report suggests market growth despite economic downturn; and CoinDesk explores a partial or full sale.EU Commission reveals Green Deal Industrial Plan
The president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has revealed plans for a new Green Deal Industrial Plan to "make Europe the home of clean tech and industrial innovation on the road to net zero."

Rishi Sunak has sought to convince European leaders to support his plans to detain and remove people to Rwanda using a summit address to link the lessons of the Ukraine war to what he said was a need to confront threats such as illegal migration.Downing Street earlier hailed an agreement reached between Sunak and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, to establish a new working arrangement to strengthen cooperation between the EU and the UK on migration.

Chinese authorities dropped a trade fair speech by the European Council president, Charles Michel, that was critical of Russia's war in Ukraine, diplomats have said.The recorded message by Michel was meant to be one of several from world leaders and heads of international bodies played at the opening on Friday last week of China's International Import Expo in Shanghai.

A leading Brexiteer has claimed that politicians in Northern Ireland who accept Rishi Sunak's post-Brexit deal with the EU would be like Nazi collaborators.Baroness Kate Hoey made the remarkable claim an attempt by the DUP to block a key part of the revised Northern Ireland Protocol deal was heavily defeated in the Lords.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Russian forces may have to advance as far as Kyiv or Lviv in Ukraine, Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview to Russian news agencies.Nothing can be ruled out here.

The most interesting part of the press conference between the UK prime minister and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was probably what Rishi Sunak said about the deal including a Stormont brake, which will allow the Northern Ireland assembly to stop new EU single market rules from applying in the region.

After years of red tape and political rows over sausages and sovereignty not to mention the collapse of the power-sharing agreement in Stormont a new deal has finally been struck over the Northern Ireland protocol.Rishi Sunak and the EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, have announced their Windsor framework to ease the flow of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain.

Hours before Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen met on Monday, UK and EU officials were still making last-minute checks and adjustments to the final deal.There was no single eureka moment as the two sides spent many late nights and long hours trying to find a deal, often fuelled by underwhelming egg sandwiches in Brussels.

A peer and Northern Ireland expert has urged unionists to respond to the substance of Rishi Sunak's revised Brexit deal alone, rather than the communal rhetoric that has been whipped up by others.Paul Bew told MPs on Wednesday it was important that people recognised the tricky political task facing the Democratic Unionist party leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, who must balance the views of the party and its base when making a decision on whether to support the Windsor framework.

The European Research Group (ERG) of hardline Brexiter Conservative MPs has formally rejected Rishi Sunak's revised plan for trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, increasing the potential size of a Tory rebellion against the plan.The ERG, which remains influential, if not to the same extent as during the Brexit negotiations under Theresa May, has said it cannot accept the so-called Windsor framework, unveiled last month by Sunak after talks with Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Several Stormont leaders described talks with Rishi Sunak on a potential Brexit protocol breakthrough as high on positively but low on detail.The Prime Minister held bilateral meetings with all five of the main Northern Ireland parties at a hotel on the outskirts of Belfast on Friday amid mounting speculation that a UK/EU deal on the Irish trading arrangements is close.

For a Brexit-minded MP, the parallels may seem striking: an electorally embattled prime minister trying to push through a controversial Northern Ireland deal in the face of Tory and Democratic Unionist party (DUP) scepticism.But one thing has changed: this is 2023, not 2019.Theresa May's struggles with Brexit, and her tumbling popularity with voters, led to her being forced out as prime minister by Conservative backbenchers.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Watch as Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen hold a press conference in Windsor after reaching an agreement on the Northern Ireland protocol on Monday (27 February).

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has rejected claims that the King was being drawn into political controversy over his meeting with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, has rejected claims the king was drawn into political matters when meeting the European Commission president after a new Brexit deal was agreed.Ursula von der Leyen was welcomed to Windsor Castle on Monday, and took tea with King Charles.It led to the Democratic Unionist party and some Conservative Brexiters accusing the prime minister of dragging the monarch into politics, calling the moment crass and controversial.

Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the international criminal court, will plead on Monday for extra cash to pursue Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including the potential prosecution of Vladimir Putin for overseeing the abduction of children from Ukraine to Russia.Khan made his dramatic move against the Russian president last week ahead of a conference in London co-hosted by the UK and the Dutch government aimed at raising cash to fund the ICC's war crimes investigatory work inside Ukraine.

Up to 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded in February, according to Kyiv's presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak.At certain points in the war, Ukraine said that between 100 and 200 of its forces were dying each day on the battlefield, making Podolyak's estimate seem conservative.

Pope Francis offered prayers for unity and peace in Italy as Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first female prime minister, took the helm of the country's most rightwing government since the second world war.Meloni and Salvini, who is deputy prime minister, were also congratulated by their European far-right allies.

Joe Biden is set to visit Belfast to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement despite the Democratic Unionist party's continued boycott of the power-sharing government that the peace pact established.The US president, who is of Irish heritage, is also expected to travel to Dublin as part of his wish to mark his family connection while in office.

The European Union's defense ministers are gathering on Wednesday in Stockholm to consider proposals to use the bloc's budget to order and purchase up to one million shells for Ukraine at an estimated cost of 4 billion euros ($4.2 billion).That point is to address a production problem.Ukraine is going through shells faster than the West can supply them, but making more shells is expensive.

First, the Ukrainian president flew overhead on his way to Washington.Then on Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew overhead to Britain.And then to Paris.Fourth time lucky?He might stop by the European Union headquarters where the bloc's leaders meet on Thursday security concerns permitting.Almost a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with tens of billions of euros in EU aid committed, nine packages of sanctions, military hardware and almost monthly visits to Kyiv, the 27-nation bloc looks set to finally get the political man of the moment on its home turf.