Category: EU Reporter

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 […]

Spain is introducing new energy-saving measures in a week in an effort to reduce its energy consumption. Air-conditioning should not be set below 27C and heating should not be set above 19C in public buildings, shopping centres, cinemas, theatres, rail stations and airports. Doors will need to be closed so as not to waste energy, […]

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) opposition leader Friedrich Merz dropped out of the right-wing “Transatlantic Forum” following criticism of the guest list, which includes a gun lobbyist, members of the German far-right, and Trump ally Lindsay Graham, Deutsche Welle reported. The event was due to be hosted by the German state of Baden Wurttemberg, which later […]

Lithuania has become the only EU country to publicly endorse a controversial US visit to Taiwan by House speaker Nancy Pelosi.

French health authorities said Tuesday that 2,171 monkeypox cases have so far been confirmed in France, more than half of them in the Paris region. French authorities have opened the capital’s first vaccination centre administering the smallpox vaccine, also effective against monkeypox, to targeted groups. Health minister Francois Braun said France has delivered 42,000 doses […]

Moldova’s pro-Russian opposition leader called for snap presidential and parliamentary elections on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Igor Dodon also told the pro-Western government to go to Moscow to negotiate cheaper natural gas from Russia as prices soar. Dodon is under house arrest on treason and corruption charges he denies. Moldova’s gas company said the gas price […]

The escalation of the war in Ukraine has forced more than 10 million people from Ukraine to cross the border into neighbouring countries since late February, the UN reported.