Category: EU Reporter

The trade association for disposable nappies responds to MEPs claims on dangerous chemicals in disposable nappies in the EU.

The EU is seeking to import more liquid gas from Nigeria to make up for shortfalls from Russia, a senior EU Commission official has said. Oil and gas output had been reduced by lawlessness. But Nigerian officials told the EU side “Come and talk to us again at the end of August because we think […]

Moldova’s prime minister Natalia Gavrilita has said she is “very worried” about the prospect of a Russian invasion in future. “This is a risk, it’s a hypothetical scenario for now, but if the military actions move further into the southwestern part of Ukraine and toward Odessa, then of course, we are very worried,” Gavrilita told […]

Turkey on Saturday summoned the Swedish deputy ambassador in Ankara for a formal compliant about what it called “terrorist propaganda” by Kurdish groups protesting in Stockholm. Turkey earlier threatened to block parliamentary ratification of Sweden’s Nato accession if it did not crack down on Kurdish exile groups living there. It voiced its “strong reaction” to […]

Some 1,200 people arrived in Sicily and in Lampedusa in Italy from Libya and Tunisia over the past 24 hours, Italian media report. Five dead bodies were also recovered from an overcrowded fishing boat. The arrivals have stretched facilities, especially on Lampedusa, where a holding centre has room for just 350 people. Far-right leaders are […]

As well as calling for direct US-Russia peace talks, Viktor Orbán cited the “great replacement” theory, which claims there is a plot to dilute the white populations of the US and European countries through immigration.

Thousands of Hungarians joined the annual Budapest Pride march on Saturday, the hottest day in the country this year with 40 degrees Celsius, vowing to keep up their fight against prime minister Viktor Orbán’s policies on LGBTI rights, Reuters reported. Earlier this month the EU Commission triggered legal action over a law targeting LGBTI people. […]

British foreign minister Liz Truss and former finance minister Rishi Sunak will clash in a crucial TV debate on Monday as the two aim to convince 160,000 Conservative party members that they can lead the party and the UK, after disgraced Boris Johnson leaves office in September. Over the weekend, Truss and Sunak tried to […]

One of the first opportunities for the EU Commission to ‘walk its talk’ is to support the proposal for a broad restriction of harmful chemicals in single-use diapers that millions of children wear everyday across the continent.

Greek firefighters battled wildfires on the island of Lesbos for a second day on Sunday, as well as new fires in the western Peloponnese and in northern Greece, evacuating nearby settlements as a heatwave set in, Reuters reported. Temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius in parts of Greece on Sunday as a heatwave that has hit […]