Category: EuroActiv

Don’t expect the EU to strip countries’ veto power any time soon.  After a meeting of EU affairs ministers in Brussels on Tuesday, Mikuláš Bek, the European affairs minister for the Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said he only foresaw “limited progress” by year’s end on the issue.  “I’m not too […]

NEW YORK — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Tuesday for world leaders to abandon neutrality, step up military and other support for his country, and stay united as it tries to repel a Russian invasion. Zelenskyy didn’t name names, but — in a live video interview with former U.S. President Bill Clinton — he warned […]

The European Medicines Agency’s top scientist stated Tuesday that the pandemic is “ongoing” after U.S. President Joe Biden declared that the health crisis was over. “I cannot honestly answer why President Biden came to that conclusion,” the regulator’s chief medical officer, Steffen Thirstrup, told journalists during a briefing. “What is clear to me … is […]

EU auditors elected Tony Murphy as the new president of the European Court of Auditors, the court announced Tuesday. The Luxembourg-based court conducts audits into how European Union money is spent and how EU policies are formed. Murphy, who is the Irish member of the court, takes over from Klaus-Heiner Lehne, who has served as […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must return all land that Russia has occupied, including Crimea. The Black Sea peninsula should be returned to its “rightful owners,” Erdoğan told PBS NewsHour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in comments likely to provoke ire in Moscow. […]

FRANKFURT — German producer prices rose in August at the fastest rate since records began in 1949, data released by the Federal Statistical Office showed today, pointing to a further increase in consumer prices. Producer prices of industrial products rose by 45.8 percent compared to the same month of last year. Compared to July 2022, […]

President Joe Biden has further stoked U.S.-China tensions by unambiguously pledging a U.S. military response if China tries to invade Taiwan. The U.S. military would defend Taiwan “if in fact there was an unprecedented attack” on the self-governing island, Biden said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Biden didn’t define what an “unprecedented” […]

NEW YORK — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday that he was “very sad” about a spiraling racism scandal which has engulfed football in Madrid. A group of Atlético Madrid fans were filmed singing, “You are a monkey, Vinicius, you are a monkey” about Real Madrid’s star Brazilian forward Vinicius Jr. before a match […]

NEW YORK — On the eve of her arrival in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, Liz Truss admitted a U.K. trade deal with the United States is unlikely to happen for many years to come. The British prime minister, who flew to the U.S. directly after attending Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, told journalists […]

Russia has “almost certainly” removed its submarines from Crimea, British intelligence said Tuesday. The Kremlin’s move comes as a reaction to Ukraine’s new “long-strike range capability” and repeated attacks on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, from where the Russian Black Sea fleet has now “almost certainly relocated its KILO-class submarines” to Novorossiysk in southern Russia, the […]