Category: EU Reporter

The elections in Bosnia are famously complicated, and last-minute changes to election laws made by the High Representative Christian Schmidt, did not make matters any simpler — and divided analysts, activists and the international community.

Dozens of European leaders have met in Prague Castle to showcase Russia’s pariah status beyond EU capitals.

The grievances are expected flare up on Friday, during the more intimate meeting of the 27 EU leaders, when German chancellor Olaf Scholz is scheduled to lay out his plan in detail.

The European Commission will present its roadmap to reduce gas prices to member states during an informal summit in Prague. The plan includes a price cap on gas used to generate electricity, but experts point out a variety of risks.

A group of MEPs whose phones were hacked or had been wiretapped by apparent state services are still seeking answers.

A crime scene investigation of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 leaks has “strengthened suspicions of gross sabotage,” the Swedish security police said on Thursday (6 October). “We can confirm that there have been detonations…which have caused extensive damage to the gas pipelines,” they said in a statement. The investigation continues.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán met in Prague on Thursday with eurosceptic former Czech president Václav Klaus, and condemned EU sanctions towards Russia ahead of a meeting of 44 European countries. Orbán said sanctions must be “reconsidered” because they did’t meet expectations. “The war is not over, the prices in Europe have gone down, but […]

The European Parliament called on Thursday for an impartial investigation into the “tragic killing” of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.  Amini died in mid-September following physical abuse in police custody, after being arrested for ignoring Iran’s veiling laws. MEPs urged the EU to impose sanctions on Iranian officials involved in her death and those using […]

The fossil-fuel industry is using the carbon removal agenda to get yet more support for failed carbon capture, which is a key component of the pie-in-the-sky carbon removal technologies being promoted by the EU Commission.

World leaders will meet in exactly four weeks to discuss some of the most pressing issues of climate change — amid escalating geopolitical tensions, and widespread mistrust in the developing world as green finance promises remain unfulfilled.