Category: EU Reporter

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.

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.