Category: EU Reporter

Viktor Orbán delivered the opening address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, where he was met with a “heroic welcome”.

Dr Ming-Yen Tsai, head of the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium, responds to EUobserver op-ed on Taiwan by the Chinese ambassador to the EU. “Taiwan is an ‘island of resilience’. That will continue to be the case.”

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is recommending Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine carry a warning of the possibility of two types of heart inflammation, Reuters reported. The heart conditions — myocarditis and pericarditis — should be listed as new side effects for the vaccine, Nuvaxovid, based on a small number of reported cases. Novavaxsaid no concerns about […]

German chancellor Olaf Scholz also rejected Moscow’s argument that gas flows were reduced due to a missing turbine, saying it was Russia that refused to take the delivery of the turbine.

Lawmakers in France, Italy, and the US have voted to let Finland and Sweden join Nato.

With the prolonged lack of rain and high temperatures, fears have emerged over water shortages and droughts decreasing crop yields — prompting calls to use less water and reuse urban wastewater for agricultural irrigation.

China’s ambassador to Belgium, Cao Zhongming, says the US has been distorting, obscuring and hollowing out the ‘one-China’ principle and unscrupulously undermining China’s core interests. This is sheer double standards and a shameful act of bad faith.

Former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday met with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ahead of a US conservative event. Trump wrote in a post on his social networking platform Truth Social that he and Orbán “discussed many interesting topics” and celebrated the Hungarian premier’s election victory in April, according to The Hill. Orbán is […]

Russia’s top court on Tuesday designated Ukraine’s Azov regiment as a terrorist group, Reuters reported. It paves the way for captured Azov soldiers to be tried under anti-terror laws and be jailed for up to 20 years. The Azov regiment, which has ultra-nationalist roots, has been one of the most prominent Ukrainian military groups. It […]

Mark Rutte became the longest-serving prime minister in Dutch history on Tuesday. The shrewd, centre-right political survivor spent 12 years in office. On Tuesday he notched up his 4,310th day in office, a day longer than Ruud Lubbers, who served as premier in the 1980s and early ’90s. “I feel like I’m getting to the […]