Category: EU Reporter

Gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline have restarted after 10 days of maintenance work, despite fears of further gas supply disruptions of a full cut-off next winter.

TV viewers have become familiar with images of bodies in the streets of Ukraine, buildings destroyed, and people crowding onto trains to flee. What has gone mostly unreported is the significant increase in domestic violence, and its grave implications.

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will consolidate its territorial gains in the south, saying that the West has provided long-range weapons to Ukraine, now Russia must push back.

Wild fires continue to burn in Portugal, Greece, Italy, and France, German news agency DPA reported Thursday morning. Three people have died and more than 1,00 have had to be evacuated in northern Portugal, where temperatures reached all-time highs of 47 degrees Celsius in recent days. A fire near Athens closed parts of a motorway […]

Italy looked set to lose its highly-respected prime minister Mario Draghi on Thursday, after his attempt to relaunch his grand coalition government ended with right-wing parties joining the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) in deserting him.

The EU foreign service has said Russian hacker groups were becoming increasingly disruptive in Europe since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. “The latest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against several EU member states and partners claimed by pro-Russian hacker groups are yet another example of the heightened and tense cyber threat landscape that EU […]

The European Commission will unveil a new plan to reduce gas consumption by industry and consumers in a bid to prepare for “a likely deterioration” — or a full cut-off of Russian gas flows this winter.

Italian prime minister Mario Draghi will address the senate on Wednesday morning, before a vote on his speech later the same evening that could decide whether he stays or goes, Reuters reports. Draghi recently resigned due to disloyalty from coalition members, but the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella rejected his resignation, putting the country in limbo. […]

EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovksis and Chinese vice premier Liu He agreed to “strengthen communication and coordination of macroeconomic policies, increase cooperation in global food and energy security and other fields, and jointly promote global economic and financial stability” in virtual talks Tuesday, China said in a readout. The EU froze a China investment pact […]

Tampere University Hospital in Finland is preparing to receive wounded soldiers from Ukraine, amid concerns whether NGOs bringing in the casualties are well prepared. “We are doing our small part to assist victims of war wherever necessary,” the hospital’s chief doctor, Juhani Sand, said, Yle reports. “For an NGO to take such risks with people’s […]