Category: EU Reporter

France wants to start building its first new-generation ‘European Pressurised Reactors’ nuclear reactor before May 2027, Reuters reported on Tuesday. French president Emmanuel Macron plans to build at least six new reactors as part of efforts to put his country on the path toward climate-neutrality. The reactors, which will replace current sites reaching the end of […]

EU majority building for near-total ban on Russian diamonds, as Belgium says it won’t veto sanctions, which could cost 10,000 jobs in Antwerp.

The UN report’s findings should be met by the EU with a more principled and human rights-centred approach to China — urging the UN Office on Genocide Prevention to conduct an assessment of atrocities.

EU sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and plans for further energy sanctions have prompted skyrocketing energy prices, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács tweeted on Tuesday. “It has become clear that the sanctions which have been introduced are doing more harm to Europe than to Russia,” he said, arguing if sanctions were lifted, prices would […]

Moscow’s military mobilisation and the subsequent fear and unrest in Russia, means the question of Vladimir Putin’s political future and possible regime change in Russia has reappeared.

EU countries have dropped calls for an “independent” enquiry into the alleged Israeli killing of Palestinian journalist Shirin Abu Akleh from a declaration on Israeli ties. The document, to be published while meeting Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid in early October, but already agreed by EU diplomats and seen by EUobserver, also voices “strong opposition […]

EU countries are looking to stop the use of fireworks inside football stadiums and other spectator arenas across the bloc, in a new strategy proposed by the Czech EU presidency and seen by EUobserver. It pushes for all 27 countries to criminalise the practice at national level and to train people in health and safety […]

A far-right bloc, led by former fascist Georgia Meloni, barrelled to victory in Italian elections on Sunday with up to 45 percent of the vote.

The problem is many of the reasons Kyiv has so successfully fended off Russia’s onslaught in cyberspace cannot simply be replicated anywhere else — not least due to international law.

The Czech presidency proposed a compromise that would reduce a plan to claw back fossil fuel companies’ excess profits.