Category: EuroActiv

The situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has deteriorated rapidly to the point of becoming “very alarming,” the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned at a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York late Thursday. “These military actions near such a large nuclear facility could lead to very serious consequences,” said […]

The UK economy contracted in the three months to June, declining 0.1 percent on the quarter as raging inflation took its toll on activity, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Friday. The drop followed a 0.8 percent contraction in the first three months of the year and was less pronounced than the 0.3 […]

Germany’s competition watchdog is set to look into whether Microsoft should come under the scope of new rules that allow the country to rapidly prohibit anti-competitive conduct, according to people familiar with the matter.   Two individuals close to the matter told POLITICO that the German Cartel Office has prepared a draft decision to launch […]

LONDON — It’s a long-held maxim in British politics that divided parties do not win elections. And so it is with some horror that U.K. Conservative Party politicians and supporters have watched the contest to replace Boris Johnson descend into the most rancorous Tory leadership battle in decades. Already dubbed ‘the dirtiest race in history‘ in […]

Climate change is turning up the heat on Europe’s growing list of crises.  With another heat wave sweeping France and the British Isles this week, the Continent faces a worsening drought — with serious consequences for energy security, food prices, trade flows and biodiversity.  Two-thirds of the European Union’s land is now covered by drought warnings. […]

BERLIN — Germany’s Wagnerian foreign policy spectacle is moving east.  Spoiler alert: It’s even worse than the original. For months, Berlin has frustrated (read enraged) many allies with its one step forward, two steps back approach to confronting Russia over Ukraine. Yet that tortured episode is looking like little more than an overture to what’s […]

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  In 1976, the dissident Russian writer Vladimir Bukovsky arrived in London. His opposition to the Communists had started at an early age, being thrown out of school in his final year for editing an unauthorized magazine, and by the time he arrived in Britain, he’d spent more […]

Svitlana Zalishchuk is a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament (2014 to 201)9 and former foreign policy adviser to the prime minister of Ukraine. She’s currently an adviser to the CEO of Naftogaz.  The sanctions Western countries have imposed on Russia in response to its bloody war against Ukraine go far beyond what the Kremlin […]

Belgium received 218 terrorist and extremist threats last year, according to the annual assessment of the country’s coordinating body for threat analysis (OCAM), published Thursday. According to the report, in 2021 the overall threat level remained on average at medium throughout the year. Just over 50 percent of threats were rated as low-level, and one-third […]

A group of Western allies including many EU countries and the U.K. pledged more funding to help boost Ukraine’s defense capabilities Thursday, reaching €1.5 billion, as Kyiv prepares for a “marathon” war with Russia.  Representatives from 26 countries, led by Denmark and the United Kingdom, met in Copenhagen to discuss how to sustain longer-term defense […]