Category: EuroActiv

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. […]

France has urged its citizens to leave Iran “as soon as possible” for fear of being detained arbitrarily in Tehran’s crackdown on protesters that has left scores of people dead. The warning, posted on the French Foreign Ministry’s website on Friday, says that dual French-Iranian nationals and tourists are also at risk, amid weeks of […]

KYIV — The Kerch bridge in Crimea was partially destroyed by an explosion Saturday morning, endangering a crucial route for Russian military supplies to support its forces in southern Ukraine. Two spans of the road portion of the bridge collapsed as a result of “an accident,” according to Sergei Aksyonov, the Russia-installed head of the Crimea […]

Abir Al-Sahlani is an Iraqi-born Swedish member of the European Parliament. For weeks now, the world has been witnessing the incredible courage of the women of Iran, as the brutal killing of Mahsa Amini has catalyzed massive protests against a regime that compulsively controls the bodies, minds and lives of women — a regime that […]

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PRAGUE — EU leaders left myriad questions unanswered Friday as they concluded a summit in Prague, delaying final decisions on combating sky-high energy prices to future meetings.  Friday’s gathering — which lasted much longer than anticipated, reflecting the deep divisions among countries over how best to bring down energy costs — made no concrete progress on […]

EU countries should use their “collective bargaining power” to secure affordable gas supplies ahead of next winter, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today. Speaking at the close of an informal summit in Prague where EU leaders discussed measures to tackle the energy supply crisis, von der Leyen said it was of crucial […]

An American executive order designed to assuage the EU’s privacy concerns will, for the first time, also allow the U.S. government to flag any issues with European surveillance programs. President Joe Biden’s executive order signed on Friday establishes a Data Protection Review Court within the Department of Justice, which will allow EU citizens to file […]

LONDON — Trade Minister Conor Burns has been fired from the U.K. government following a complaint of “serious misconduct” at the country’s ruling Conservative Party’s annual conference this week. The MP has also been suspended from the party grouping in parliament, pending an investigation into the allegation against him. A spokesperson for Prime Minister Liz Truss […]