Category: EU Reporter

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.

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 […]

The agreement came as Russia’s Gazprom said it would cut gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to 20 percent of capacity, starting Wednesday. Ireland, Malta and Cyprus secured exemptions.

The UK will host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in lieu of war-torn Ukraine, the BBC reported. Ukraine won the 2022 event, earning it the right to host the televised competition, whilst the UK came in second place. Several cities are in the running to host the event, which sees a live audience of around […]

David Trimble, the former leader of the Ulster Unionist party and the inaugural first minister of Northern Ireland, died at the age of 77 on Monday, his family announced. Trimble, alongside the moderate nationalist leader John Hume, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work putting together the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which led […]

The two Conservative MPs fighting to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister clashed on taxes, inflation and foreign policy in their first head-to-head TV debate on Monday night. Former finance minister Rishi Sunak warned of current foreign secretary Liz Truss’s former embrace of China, whilst Truss, promising £40bn [€47.2bn] in tax cuts, accused Sunak […]

The leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party has warned Moscow could try to interfere in the country’s snap elections, called after the collapse of Mario Draghi’s government last week, Reuters reports. Enrico Letta said he wanted Italian intelligence agencies and the European Union’s disinformation unit to monitor the two-month election campaign. The rightwing parties, the […]

EU member states should start preparing now for a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in autumn and winter, the EU commissioner for health Stella Kyriakides said on Monday, adding that there had been a “worrying increase” in outbreaks. Kyriakides said that the commission had asked member states to accelerate booster shots now for persons […]