Category: EU Reporter

Some 50 people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying 80 migrants from Turkey capsized in stormy weather off the coast of Greece Wednesday. “Protecting human life is a daily concern and our absolute priority,” Greek shipping minister Ioannis Plakiotakis said, The Guardian reports, amid ongoing coastguard efforts to seek survivors. Greece has […]

Ukrainian officials says Russia launched 120 ‘Grad’ rockets at an area around the town of Nikopol overnight killing three people and wounding seven, reports Reuters. “The enemy is concentrating its efforts on establishing full control over the territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions,” said Ukraine’s General Staff, in a report issued on Thursday. It […]

Ambitions to ship between 2m and 5m tonnes of grain out of Ukraine each month via a safe corridor for international shipping were “achievable”, the UN has said. “We’re expecting to see a big uptick in applications for transit,” from shipping firms, senior UN official Frederick Kenney said in Istanbul Wednesday, Reuters reports. Some 12 […]

Greece will be more free to spend its own money and borrow on markets after exiting an “enhanced surveillance framework” on 20 August imposed by international creditors in 2018 after three bailouts worth €260bn. “A difficult chapter for our country comes to a close,” Greek finance minister Christos Staikouras said. “Greece returns to a European […]

Denmark has promised to train Ukrainian soldiers in the UK and at home as part of Western efforts to see Russia lose its invasion of Ukraine. “Denmark will support a British-led training project with 130 Danish soldiers and at the same time offer to train Ukrainian soldiers in Denmark,” its foreign ministry said Wednesday. Training […]

Estonia summoned Russia’s ambassador in Tallinn Wednesday to complain about violation of its airspace by a Russian helicopter Tuesday. “Estonia considers this an extremely serious and regrettable incident that is completely unacceptable,” its foreign ministry said. It made a similar complaint in June, amid mounting Russian assertiveness in the Baltic region, which has also put […]

An EU embargo on Russian coal imports came into effect at midnight on Thursday, as part of sanctions designed to starve Moscow of fossil-fuel revenue.

A dispute between Lithuania and Russia over freight-rail transit to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad risks flaring up again, after the Kaliningrad governor said EU-agreed quotas of some 500,000 tonnes/year of goods allowed to be moved despite Russia sanctions had already been reached. “We’ve already exhausted the limits set by Europeans for the transportation of […]

An EU accord to reduce gas consumption by 15 percent from August to March next year due to Russia-war linked cut-offs entered into force Tuesday, with Germany saying the move could also help stabilise prices. “If all countries in Europe save gas, this can stabilise the price so to speak, maybe even reduce it,” the […]

Turkey has resumed gas exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean, in an area criss-crossed by competing Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot territorial claims. But its drillship, the Abdullhamid Han, which sailed Tuesday, will stay in Turkish-only waters, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said. “The survey and drilling work we are conducting in the Mediterranean are within our sovereign […]