Category: EU Reporter

Europeans howl in outrage about US backsliding on abortion rights — but they don’t exactly have their own house in order. Take the case of Bianca. She’s a Romanian.

The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is expected to reopen to worshippers and the public in 2024, culture minister Rima Abdul Malak said on Thursday, more than three years after its roof was destroyed in a massive blaze in 2019, AFP reports. The ministers said the clean-up phase of the restoration project had ended, allowing […]

German inflation increased in July driven by higher energy prices as Russia further reduced gas flows, Reuters reported. Consumer prices increased by 8.5 percent on the year, the federal statistics office said on Thursday. Energy prices were 35.7 percent higher in July against the same month last year, and food prices went up 14.8 percent […]

Former Russian TV presenter Marina Ovsyannikova was fined 50,000 roubles (€803) on Thursday after being found guilty of discrediting the country’s armed forces in social media posts condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, Reuters reports. Ovsyannikova, who came to worldwide prominence in March for holding an anti-war placard live on air on Russian state TV, rejected […]

Dozens of protestors booed Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday in Vienna for his racist speech over the weekend, which saw a strong rebuke from Washington. Orbán, meeting with Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer during a one-day visit, defended his comments against creating “peoples of mixed-race”, saying they represented a “cultural, civilisational standpoint”. “It happens […]

Western sanctions are driving Russia toward “economic oblivion” despite reports to the contrary, a leading US university has said.

Italian right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini’s ties with Russia came under scrutiny again Thursday following questions about what led to the collapse of prime minister Mario Draghi’s government, AFP reports. La Stampa newspaper revealed that a Russian diplomat met Salvini’s aide in May, and asked if any of the ministers from Salvini’s League party intended […]

China’s ambitions and clearly-stated strategic objectives are no less than delegitimising and finally replacing what it views as the Western-dominated and unfair existing world order. It denounces the current global system as the main source of instability and insecurity.

Making the EU target to reduce gas demand by 15 percent this winter mandatory should be decided unanimously and not by a qualified majority vote, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki told broadcaster Polsat News on Thursday. “We absolutely favour such a vote in this matter… where Poland has the right to veto. We demand it,” he said. […]

Estonia announced on Thursday that Russian citizens will no longer enjoy visas or residence permits to study in the country, Reuters reported. The country’s foreign ministry will also stop granting short-term work authorisations to Russians and other citizens allied with Belarus with a visa from another EU member state. “The continuation of sanctions against Russia is essential […]