Category: EU Reporter

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.

“This is not a moment when we are going to send flowers to all of you saying that you are beautiful,” he warned EU ambassadors early in his speech.

“Hybrid and cyber-attacks can trigger Article 5,” Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday when asked about the act of sabotage on the German rail network at the weekend and the twin leaks at the Nord Stream pipelines. Stoltenberg refused to comment on specific events, as investigations are ongoing, but warned that hybrid and cyber-attacks […]

It is the responsibility of EU member state to proceed with bilateral meetings but the EU’s position is that “it makes no sense to engage with Russia at a time when they are so openly disregarding and dismissing every single civilised norm of the rules-based world”, EU Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said on Tuesday of […]

“I wake up every morning, thinking this may be my last day. I have never lived like this”, a young woman in a calm and normal Kyiv told me 10 days ago. But this week the missiles came back.

The European Union seeks to expand gas trade with Algeria, as part of its wider efforts to diversify energy supplies away from Russia.

Germany has no plans to back a joint European Union loan mechanism, a government source said.