Category: EU Reporter

The EU, in June, already granted candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, and to Georgia with conditions — with the Russian aggression speeding up the accession process.

Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that “lost” gas flows from damaged Nord Stream pipelines could be redirected to the Black Sea, to create a European “gas hub” in Turkey, Reuters reported. Putin also insisted that gas supplies could be delivered to Europe through one part of the Nord Stream 2 which is not affected. […]

Nato would likely fire on military bases in Russia if it hit ones in Poland in a “proportionate” exchange of conventional air strikes, a European former military chief has said.

A group of 45 NGOs on Wednesday issued a manifesto urging EU countries to ban so-called ‘forever chemicals’ — technically per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — in consumer products by 2025, and across all uses by 2030. The European Commission pledged to ban all non-essential uses of PFAS in 2020, under the EU chemicals strategy for […]

Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Wednesday called on “every Russian soldier” to leave Belarus and said all involved in Russian attacks from Belarus’ territory “must be held accountable”. Referring to Russia, Tikhanovskaya said Belarus and Ukraine has the same enemy. She argued that Ukraine and Belarus’ fate is intertwined. “Without [a] free Belarus, there will […]

A verdict is expected soon on the EU Commission over projects it financed to help sketchy governments abroad spy on people, which could then be used against rights defenders, journalists, and dissidents.

Sanctions were “melting away” Russia’s ability to finance the war, the EU has said, but China and Turkey are helping it to get around Western blockades.

“The Covid-19 pandemic is still not over,” EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides, the director of the World Health Organization’s European branch, Hans Kluge, and the head of the EU agency monitoring viral infections, Andrea Ammon, said on Wednesday. They said vaccines remain the most “effective tool” to protect the most vulnerable, as the new wave […]

The first opportunity to discuss the creation of a ‘Human Rights League’ will be the event organised this Thursday in the European Parliament.

Some of Europe’s largest pension funds are investing billions of euros in volatile commodity markets, risking the hard-earned income of millions of workers while fuelling a global hunger crisis caused in part by such investments, a new investigation has found.