Category: EU Reporter

French officials have raised the alarm over the eighth wave of the Covid-19 virus, as winter approaches, Reuters reported on Tuesday. “We are in this eighth wave,” said Brigitte Autran, a member of the government’s vaccination strategic board, pointing out that all indicators are up. The last figures showed an increase in the number of new […]

EU countries agreed on Tuesday to include Anguilla, Bahamas and Turks and Caicos in its blacklist of tax-havens, as reported by EUobserver. The three Caribbean countries were added because, according to the commission, they have failed to enforce the economic substance requirements that apply to zero-tax jurisdictions. American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad […]

The European Political Community (EPC) has been derided as a deceptive ploy to sideline the enlargement process, or simply a characteristically grandiose but vague proposal coming from the French. What should it be?

The days of pilling up obsolete chargers in drawers and groping around to find the correct one are coming to an end. MEPs adopted new rules forcing all phone manufacturers to offer a common charging solution by autumn 2024.

“[…] We were astonished that on election day, the high representative for Bosnia imposed significant further changes to the constitution,”German MEP Andreas Schieder, head of the European Parliament election observation delegation to Bosnia said on Monday.

Greek energy minister Kostas Skrekas told ERT television on Monday that Athens will submit a proposal to the European Commission on an EU-wide price cap on natural gas this week. The Greek proposal will be discussed with energy ministers from Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Poland in a conference call this week. “I hope […]

Spanish rescue services said on Sunday they had recovered the bodies of four people from an inflatable dinghy found 278km south of Gran Canaria, from which one survivor was rescued. Spanish NGO Caminando sin Fronteras said there were initially 34 people on board. “The rest of the victims, 29 in total, have been swallowed by the ocean,” […]

After Russia’s mobilisation speech, the Czech Republic’s foreign ministry on Monday warned its citizens living in Russia that their embassy in Moscow cannot provide them “with adequate, full consular protection,” Reuters reported. “Citizens of the Czech Republic who also hold Russian citizenship should bear in mind that if they are on the territory of the […]

The EU is demanding a probe into possible war crimes following a video of people dressed in Azerbaijani uniforms executing Armenian prisoners of war.

Lithuania’s foreign ministry on Monday declared Russia’s top diplomat in the country, Sergey Ryabokon, persona-non-grata. “[His] recent actions and statements are incompatible with a diplomat’s status, and should be seen as interference in the host nation’s domestic affairs,” the statement said. The ministry did not detail the alleged offences. The diplomat has to leave the […]