China has its sights set on the U.S. midterm elections. Ahead of November’s vote, a social media influence operation originating in the world’s second-largest economy targeted American voters of both major parties, according to a report released Tuesday by Meta. The activity — which ran between November 2021 and September 2022 — used fake social […]
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In Germany, news magazine Der Spiegel warned about natural gas shortages. In the United Kingdom, the Guardian, another media outlet, raised doubts about Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In Italy, Ansa, a leading news agency, criticized Kyiv’s storage of much-needed grain. These news stories were all promoted extensively on Facebook and Twitter. They were all […]
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LONDON — Post-Brexit controls have caused a 25 percent drop in the number of Eurostar passengers able to board services to Europe each hour at London’s St. Pancras station. Jacques Damas, chief executive of the cross-Channel high speed train company, said St. Pancras can only process a maximum of 1,500 passengers per hour assuming all […]
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DUBLIN — Ireland unveiled a whopping €11 billion budget Tuesday designed to shelter households and businesses from runaway energy bills and a home-grown housing crisis. The unprecedented package of expanded benefits and tax cuts by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe represents €2,200 for every man, woman and child in Ireland. It includes hikes in welfare and […]
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Sweden’s maritime authority detected two leaks on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline on Tuesday, shortly after Danish authorities discovered a leak in Nord Stream 2.
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Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen suspects the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines may be caused by sabotage. “It is hard to imagine that it is accidental. We cannot rule out sabotage, but it is too early to conclude,” she told Danish news agency Politiken while in Poland, where she attended the inauguration of the […]
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Whether on Russia, or gas, or climate change, or food security, the EU’s constant finger-wagging and moralising is becoming unbearably repetitive and self-defeating. Most countries in the Global South view it as eurocentric and neo-colonial.
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Danish energy companies have been put on a higher level of preparedness which requires them to check the physical safety of generators several times a day, following three large leaks in both Nord Stream pipelines. “A leak is extremely rare, and it naturally causes strong concern. That is why we have raised the level of […]
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Hungary’s Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced former Jobbik MEP Béla Kovács to five years in prison for spying, Hungarian media reported. He was also sentenced for budget fraud and falsification of documents. According to the indictment, between 2012 and 2014, Kovács’ task was to create groups in the EU to strengthen Russia’s interests and weaken […]
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Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines were caused by sabotage. “Today we faced an act of sabotage, we don’t know all the details of what happened, but we see clearly that it’s an act of sabotage related to the next step of escalation of the situation in Ukraine,” […]
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