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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 […]

The meeting comes as the Russian state-controlled Gazprom announced that supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany would drop to just 20 percent of capacity, starting Wednesday.

Cyprus has said Russia’s war on Ukraine and related gas cut-offs could help accelerate its efforts to get offshore gas flowing to the EU. Europe’s “intention to move away from Russia regardless of when the war ends” means it will need alternative sources, Cypriot energy minister Natasa Pilides told Bloomberg Monday. Exploration of Cyprus’ offshore […]

The EU Parliament needs to take stronger measures against MEPs who serve foreign dictators, such as Putin, on bogus election-monitoring missions.

Esperanto’s supporters include Alfred Hermann Fried, co-winner of the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize, and Lord Robert Cecil, the winner of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize — not to mention communist revolutionaries like Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Josip Tito.