Category: EU Reporter

Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s minister of ecology and natural resources, talks about the country’s environmental challenges.

The EU court in Luxembourg has thrown out Russia’s challenge against a ban on propaganda outlet Russia Today imposed after the invasion of Ukraine.

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, […]

Greece has proposed a new EU mechanism to compensate industries affected by EU plans to restrict gas use. “By offering financial incentives, rather than relying on the penalty of interruptions during an emergency, the proposal is more likely to unlock a firm and sizeable response from industry,” Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a […]

Zsuzsa Hegedüs, a veteran aide of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, has quit her post after Orbán spoke out against interracial mixing in a speech last weekend. The speech was “pure Nazi” and “worthy of Goebbels [Hitler’s propagandist]” she said in her resignation letter, according to Hungarian media. Orbán replied he had “zero-tolerance” of racism […]

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 […]