Category: EuroActiv

Silvio Berlusconi has “reconnected” with Vladimir Putin and described himself as one of the Russian president’s “five real friends,” according to an audio recording published in Italian media. The former Italian prime minister was speaking at a meeting of his Forza Italia party in parliament during discussions on forming a new government, La Presse reported. […]

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) edged closer to a full-blown European revolt Tuesday, as the Netherlands became the latest country to announce it would withdraw from the deal. Dutch Minister for Climate and Energy Policy Rob Jetten announced the decision in the parliament on Tuesday. Spain made a similar call last week, with Poland also […]

The European Commission on Tuesday announced a raft of new emergency measures — including seeking a price cap on a key gas trading hub if prices spike — aimed at helping countries source and store enough gas for next year. The moves, which include asking EU countries to better coordinate joint gas purchasing and setting […]

A pro-Moscow official in the occupied Ukrainian region of Donetsk claimed that the mayor’s office in the separatist-controlled territory had been hit by Ukrainian rockets on Sunday. “According to incoming information, today at 7:37 [6:37 a.m. in CET] there was a direct hit by enemy ordnance on Donetsk’s city administration building,” Alexey Kulemzin, who has […]

LONDON — Jeremy Hunt, the man brought in to save Liz Truss’ floundering premiership and calm spooked markets, warned Sunday that he’s “not taking anything off the table” when it comes to rethinking the government’s economic policies. In a round of broadcast interviews, Hunt — appointed as the U.K.’s top finance minister Friday after Truss […]

Xi Jinping’s ascension to a third term as China’s paramount leader at this week’s 20th Party Congress seems almost certain. And yet it has been anything but pre-ordained. Xi has harnessed a masterful combination of strategic planning and an uncanny aptitude to lead allies and enemies alike to underestimate his ambition to pave a path to becoming […]

Chinese government officials are stonewalling U.S. efforts to solidify a long-planned face-to-face meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Bali next month. Beijing won’t engage with U.S. officials trying to draft an agenda for the meeting, according to a person familiar with the planning […]

Elon Musk says SpaceX will continue to financially support its Starlink terminals in Ukraine after all. The SpaceX founder and high-profile tech entrepreneur sent a letter to the Pentagon in September asking the agency to take over funding for the satellite communication system, which the company donated to Ukraine earlier this year after Russia’s invasion. “The hell […]

U.S. President Joe Biden laid into beleaguered U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss’ tax-cutting agenda Saturday, calling it a “mistake” and warning that a lack of “sound policy in other countries” could hold back the United States. Truss, just weeks into the job, is fighting for her political life after proposing — and then being forced […]

WASHINGTON — David Malpass’ job as president of the World Bank appears safe despite calls for his ouster by climate advocates, but the recent controversy over his climate views may have helped ram through changes to help clean energy despite his resistance. Malpass apologized for his late September remarks downplaying the effect humans and fossil […]