Category: EU Reporter

Despite the war, the Ukrainian Premier League is preparing for a new football season. “We continue to compete and cheer. We continue to fight and win,” Ukraine’s sports minister said.

German chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised tax relief and other aid to German citizens struggling with high energy bills due to Russian gas, oil, and coal supply shortages. “Citizens can count on us not to abandon them,” he said at a press conference in Berlin Thursday. He vowed to tackle the energy crisis at the […]

Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz said the construction of a new pipeline from Portugal would help ween the bloc off Russian gas. “Such a pipeline would massively relieve the supply situation now,” Scholz told reporters in a news conference in Berlin. The pipeline would run through Spain, which imports gas from Algeria, through France and to […]

Ukraine is calling on US president Joe Biden’s administration to sanction all Russian private banks to help end president Vladimir Putin’s ability to wage war, according to Kyiv’s envoy to Washington. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government wants the US to add a couple of banks per week to its list of sanctioned financial institutions, according to […]

Spain evacuated an additional 294 Afghans via Pakistan and flew them into Madrid late Wednesday evening, it said. “This flight is further evidence that we are keeping our commitment to not leave anyone behind,” said Spanish foreign minister José Albares, in a statement. Spain has so far evacuated 3,900 Afghans since the Taliban takeover last […]

Russian oil production has fallen by less than 3 percent since the invasion of Ukraine, with western energy sanctions having only a “limited” effect, the International Energy Agency has found, as flows are rerouted to India and China. In its latest monthly report, the agency said Russia’s oil production in July was 310,000 barrels a […]

Donors at an international conference in Denmark pledged over €1.5bn to boost Ukraine’s military capabilities in its war against Russia. The pledges were made by 26 countries. “We are not getting tired. We are increasing the amount of aid to Ukraine,” said Ben Wallace, UK’s secretary of state for defence, who-costed the conference alongside with […]

The Belgian parliament’s recent decision to ratify its prisoner-exchange treaty with Iran is a grave mistake, and one which exemplifies the many downfalls of dealing with Iran’s human-rights abuses on a case-by-case basis.

Sweden overtook France as the biggest net exporter of power in Europe during the first half of this year, as France shifted from a net exporter to a net importer of energy, amid structural problems in its nuclear sector. Sweden exported 16 terawatt hours (TWh), energy data analyst EnAppSys found. In addition to France, Norway […]

Italian far-right politician Giorgia Meloni told Italian, French, and Spanish press Wednesday that “the Italian right has handed fascism over to history for decades now” and that “we fiercely oppose any anti-democratic drift” in Italy. Meloni, who tops polls to become prime minister in September, used to be a self-avowed fascist, but blamed left-wing media […]