Category: EU Reporter

EU ambassadors will hold initial talks on new Russian sanctions on Monday, amid proposals to ban gold exports and blacklist more individuals.

The tax increase comes when inflation is at a two-decade high at 11.7 percent, the forint is at record lows, and rising energy prices are making matters worse for households.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky fired the chief of the country’s national security agency, the SBU, Ivan Bakanov, and the state prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, citing close ties with Russia, Reuters reported on Sunday. The firings and the appointment of Oleksiy Symonenko as the new prosecutor general were announced in executive orders on the president’s website. In a […]

UK prime minister Boris Johnson has come under fire for missing an emergency ministerial meeting on heatwave preparedness on Saturday, DW reported. Johnson, who is set to step down in September, took a weekend break at his country retreat where he was also hosting a farewell party. Temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius in […]

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will visit Baku on Monday in a bid to seal a gas export deal, Reuters reported. “Amid Russia’s continued weaponisation of its energy supplies, diversification of our energy imports is a priority,” the commission tweeted. The bilateral deal aims to increase exports to the bloc, via the Southern Gas […]

Huge wildfires in countries including Spain, Portugal, Greece and France have forced national authorities to evacuate thousands of people from their homes, as a heatwave of record-breaking temperatures hits southern Europe. About 16,000 people were evacuated in France on Saturday. Meanwhile, the nearly week-long heatwave has already killed at least 360 people in Spain and 238 people in […]

Germany is advocating for a stronger geopolitical European Union in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The EU can no longer afford “selfish blockades of European decisions by individual member states,” German chancellor Olaf Scholz said, in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Sunday. He was referring to the need to abolish national vetos in […]

The problem did not pop up just this summer. The consequences of the climate crisis, compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, have significantly driven up food prices, tipping millions of people into hunger, especially in developing countries.

Over 38 million people in Europe cannot afford a week’s holiday despite being employed, according to the European Trade Union Confederation. It listed Romania, Greece and Lithuania as the EU states were most workers will not be able to take a week’s break. Meanwhile, Italy (8m) , Spain (4.6m) and France (4.1m) have the highest […]

EU agriculture ministers today discuss how to protect animals during transport. This was put on the agenda by Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden, countries that have been at the forefront of the policy push to address this issue.