Category: EU Reporter

Russia is to abandon the International Space Station it operates with Europe, the US, Canada, and Japan after 2024 to build its own one, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos said Tuesday. US agency Nasa had earlier said the international station would retire in 2031. The European Space Agency recently cancelled a […]

The EU has put forward a draft new nuclear non-proliferation deal between Iran and world powers after 15 months of talks, with EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell writing in the FT that: “If the deal is rejected, we risk a dangerous nuclear crisis, set against the prospect of increased isolation for Iran and its […]

Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Greece on Tuesday in his first time back in the EU since his minions murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and dismembered him with a bone saw. Bin Salman held talks with Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis about defence-sector, energy, and telecommunications investments. He wanted to help make […]

From food policy to climate change, corporate lobbyists are exploiting the Ukraine crisis to try to slash legislation that gets in the way of profit. But this is only making things worse.

The top 22 Russian and Belarusian firms in Lithuania used to make billions of euros, pay little tax, and employ relatively few people before the Ukraine war and EU sanctions regime, Lithuanian newspaper lrt.lt reports. The firms — mostly sales agents for Belarusian and Russian goods — earned €1.2bn in revenues last year, paid €70m […]

Germany aims to spend up to €13bn a year in future on updating buildings to become more energy-efficient ones, compared to €9.6bn this year, its economy minister Robert Habeck said Tuesday. “Consuming less energy is the cheapest and most efficient contribution to more independence and climate protection and helps to save on energy costs,” he […]

The EU needs to install 76 gigawatts of additional wind and solar energy by 2026, instead of 38 gigawatts — as is being forecast by industry — in order to meet climate goals, according to UK think-tank Ember. “Europe no longer lacks renewables ambition, but it is now facing an implementation gap,” it said. Finland, […]

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is pitching his Latin American country as the answer to the world food crisis following the war in Ukraine. The traditional wheat importer has now exported three million tonnes of the grain so far in 2022.

Comparisons between post-communist Albania and current-day Ukraine are fascinating — and make many pertinent parallels. Ukrainians have a similar determination to belong to “the rest of Europe” as Albanians.

German national airline Lufthansa has announced almost all its flights from Frankfurt and Munich will be cancelled due to a staff strike scheduled on Wednesday, DW reported. The effects of the one-day strike are likely to affect flights later in the week. More than 1,000 flights have been called off affecting around 134,000 passengers amid the summer peak […]