Category: EU Reporter

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak widened his lead in the latest round of voting on Monday by Conservative MPs to decide Britain’s next prime minister, AFP reported. Sunak won the support of 115 Tory lawmakers, followed by Penny Mordaunt with 82 votes, Liz Truss on 71, Kemi Badenoch on 58 and Tom Tugendhat on 31. […]

Shorter women will be able to join Spain’s police forces after the country’s top court ruled Monday that a minimum 1.61 metre height requirement for female officers is discriminatory, Reuters reported. The case was filed by a woman who was barred from the selection tests in 2017 because she was four cm shorter. 25 percent […]

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky appointed an experienced official as acting head of the security agency, the Guardian reported. Zelensky’s childhood friend Ivan Bakanov, who had been in charge of the 30,000-strong state security service, the SBU, was suspended on Sunday over claims of failure to counter Russian infiltration. Zelensky announced Monday that Vasyl Maliuk, SBU’s […]

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday are expected to discuss Ukrainian grain export at their meeting in Tehran, Reuters reported. Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the UN are set to sign a deal later this week aimed at resuming the shipping of grain from Ukraine across the Black Sea, which […]

Russia’s Gazprom has told European customers in a letter that it cannot guarantee gas supplies because of “extraordinary” circumstances, Reuters reported. The Russian state gas monopoly said that it was retroactively declaring force majeure from 14 June. Nord Stream 1, the key pipeline delivering Russian gas to Germany and beyond, is undergoing 10 days of […]

The European Commission will soon propose a legal framework allowing companies to buy offsetting carbon removals from farmers. Despite good intentions, lessons from similar projects in the US suggest that such schemes could end up doing more harm than good

Legal scholar Sahar Aziz says people who identify as Muslim are often perceived in racial terms, like black and brown people, in white-dominated societies. That makes Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic the subject of similar forms of racism.

Canada on Sunday sent a repaired turbine of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany by plane, Reuters reported on Monday. Russian energy giant Gazprom had asked Germany for the repaired turbine to restart gas flows, but it may still take five to seven days to reach Russia, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant. Canada was slammed by Ukraine for granting […]

North Macedonia is to finally open accession talks with the EU on Tuesday after MPs backed a deal to end Bulgaria’s veto.

The Russian media worker Marina Ovsyannikova, who became famous for holding an anti-war poster on live state television in March, has been reportedly detained by Russian police, DW reported on Sunday. Her lawyer, Dmitri Zakhvatov, confirmed the news to the Russian state-run Ria-Novosti news agency, arguing that her arrest was “linked one way or another to her act […]