Category: EU Reporter

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Kosovo has put off new border rules with Serbia following another flare-up in ethnic violence.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said his country fully supports North Macedonia’s integration into the EU, AP reported. Sanchez held talks Sunday with North Macedonian prime minister Dimitar Kovachevski in the capital of Skopje, ahead of the last stop on his Western Balkan tour, visiting Albania on Monday. “We are more united now than ever […]

Britain will require foreign companies holding UK property to identify their true owners in an official register, the British government said on Monday. The move is part of a crackdown on Russian oligarchs and corrupt elites laundering illicit wealth, Reuters reported. It will seek to stop the flow of illicit Russian cash into London, and […]

Austrian leaders have appealed for an end to anti-vax hatred following the suicide of a well-known doctor, Lisa-Maria Kellermayr, who became vilified by the movement during the pandemic. “Hatred against people is inexcusable. This hatred must finally stop,” health minister Johannes Rauch said Saturday, Reuters reports, after Kellermayr’s body was found with a suicide note. […]

The uproar over Viktor Orbán’s speech hides Hungary’s deep economic woes — fuelled by steep inflation, rising energy costs, and the unsustainability of the price cap policy.

The EU’s investment package for development, the so-called ‘Global Gateway’, which Ursula von der Leyen described as the “future of the EU’s development cooperation”, seems fixated on boosting private sector investments in energy, infrastructure and climate-smart solutions in Africa.