Category: EU Reporter

Russia has introduced an entry ban against 39 UK politicians, officials, business people and journalists for supporting the “demonisation” of the country, Reuters reports. The ban includes Labour party leader Keir Starmer, former prime minister David Cameron, and TV personality Piers Morgan. More than 200 other Britons have already banned by Moscow. The sanctions are […]

Nuclear stockpiles have been reduced since the Cold War — but the risk of using nuclear weapons remains high, amid conflicts and tensions between nuclear powers in Ukraine, Korean peninsula and Middle East.

Ports in Italy cannot impound NGO migrant-rescue ships on grounds they take on board too many people to be safe, the EU court has ruled.

Bulgarian president Rumen Radev has set 2 October as the date for the country’s fourth parliamentary election in less than two years. Anti-corruption and reformist prime minister Kiril Petkov’s coalition government collapsed in June, and efforts to secure a new majority failed, Reuters reports. Radev appointed former labour minister Galab Donev to lead a caretaker […]

France, Italy and Spain are urging the EU Commission to introduce legislation that Big Tech firms partly finance telecoms infrastructure in the EU, Reuters revealed Monday. EU regulators said in May they were analysing whether tech giants Alphabet (Google), Meta and Netflix should also pay costs of upgrading telecoms networks. The three governments said in […]

The ship’s departure for Lebanon was made possible thanks to an export agreement reached by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN on 22 July.

Germany should stop using gas to produce electricity, finance minister Christian Lindner said on Sunday, news agency DPA reported. “We have to work on avoiding an electricity crisis on top of the gas crisis,” Lindner said. Germany could continue using “safe and climate-friendly nuclear plants” to produce energy until 2024 if necessary, he argued. Nevertheless, economy […]

Spain reported its second monkeypox-related death on Saturday, after recording the first casualty on Friday. Only five deaths had been reported worldwide as of 22 July, all in the African region. But Brazil reported the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent last Friday. Spain is one of the world’s worst-hit countries, with 4,298 people infected. The World Health Organization […]

Russian state-controlled Gazprom said on Saturday it suspended gas deliveries to Latvia — the last European country to suffer gas cuts amid tensions over the invasion of Ukraine. Latvian officials said the move would have little impact on the Baltic country since Riga had decided to ban Russian gas imports as of 2023, Reuters reported. EU energy ministers reached […]

Switzerland would match EU sanctions on China imposed in the wake of any potential attack on Taiwan, a senior Swiss official has said. “I strongly believe that we would adopt such sanctions,” Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, in charge of sanctions implementation, told Neue Zuercher Zeitung Saturday. Her office had “no indication that there are many assets of […]