Category: EuroActiv

BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats are poised to win a state election in the northern region of Lower Saxony giving the party a key boost as it grapples with a national energy crisis, according to preliminary results announced after voting closed on Sunday. The projection is based on early counting and is subject to […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of his national security council on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian state-owned news agency TASS on Sunday, following a fiery explosion on a strategic Crimean bridge on Saturday. Although Peskov declined to say whether they would discuss the explosion on the Kerch Bridge connecting Russian-occupied […]

Russia is rushing to repair the bridge connecting occupied Crimea to Russia after a major blast on Saturday, in an attempt to downplay the attack. Suburban train lines are scheduled to start running again on the Kerch Bridge as of 7 p.m. local time, according to a message from the Russian Transport Ministry posted on […]

The oil cartel OPEC’s choice to pare back oil supply will harm the global economy and especially developing countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the Financial Times in an interview published Sunday. “I think OPEC’s decision is unhelpful and unwise — it’s uncertain what impact it will end up having, but certainly, it’s something […]

Abishur Prakash is a co-founder and geopolitical futurist at Center for Innovating the Future (CIF), an advisory firm based in Toronto, Canada. He is also the author of five books and a global speaker. His latest book is called, “The World Is Vertical: How Technology Is Remaking Globalization.” As nations across the world look to transition […]

KYIV — The fiery blast on the Kerch Bridge on Saturday triggered a chorus of calls for brutal retaliation against Ukraine among Russian public figures who support President Vladimir Putin.  The calls increase political pressure on Putin, who said in September that Moscow is ready to use “all available means” to protect the country and its […]

The French government supports the idea of imposing higher taxes on private jets in 2023 by bringing aviation fuel levies in line with those for cars, the country’s Environment Minister Christophe Bechu said on Saturday. Speaking on the franceinfo radio station, Bechu said that his government backs an amendment to the 2023 tax bill, leveled […]

While Donald Trump was frantically trying to extend his presidency despite losing the 2020 election, members of far-right extremist groups were watching, interpreting his moves and even seeking to nudge him toward more draconian measures. “I have been so busy on back channel working groups trying to advise the President,” Stewart Rhodes, founder of the […]

BERLIN — German Transport Minister Volker Wissing said Saturday that “sabotage acts on the cable network” were responsible for a serious outage of train traffic in large parts of northern Germany, adding that authorities were investigating and seeking the unknown perpetrators. The service of long-distance, regional and cargo trains in the northwestern states of Hamburg, […]

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has lost its last remaining external power sources amid renewed shelling and now relies on emergency generators for “essential nuclear safety and security functions,” the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on Saturday. The 750 kilovolt (kV) power line supplying energy to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was cut at around 1 a.m. […]