Category: EuroActiv

A much-touted EU fund meant to help countries replace weapons shipped to Ukraine is increasingly unable to cover an influx of reimbursement requests — and it hasn’t even sent out its first payment. Days after Russia’s war began, the EU set up a €‎500 million pot, encouraging countries to arm Kyiv and ask the EU […]

Abdoulie Ceesay is the deputy majority leader of Gambia’s National Assembly. He’s also a member of Gambia’s delegation to the African, Caribbean and Pacific states for the EU Parliamentary Assembly and the founder of the Help Foundation Gambia.    As a Gambian, I was watching the actions of Britain’s new king with great hope.   […]

Robin Millington is the CEO of Planet Tracker. Simon Stiell, the new chief of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has his work cut out for him. Indeed, there’s no magic wand to greening the global economy, but he does have the convening power to help bring policymakers, investors and financial institutions together […]

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is so weakened that his army hasn’t been called to fight in Ukraine because Russian President Vladimir Putin can’t be sure the troops would follow his orders, exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said. “I’m sure that he [Lukashenko] would give the order to the Belarusian army to participate in this invasion […]

The Jan. 6 select committee voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump, a remarkable bid to tie up one of its last remaining threads that’s unlikely to successfully compel the former president’s testimony. “It is our obligation to seek Donald Trump’s testimony,” the panel’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), said before the vote. “There’s precedent […]

The emir of Qatar has thanked Vladimir Putin for his “great support” with the 2022 FIFA World Cup, even as the Russian president’s lethal war on Ukraine continues. The leaders met Thursday at a regional summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, where Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani lavished praise on Putin, who has become a […]

The U.S. and its NATO allies are racing to assemble air defense shields both for Ukraine and for Europe as a whole, facing down complex issues from timing to getting systems to work together, as bombs rain down on civilians in Kyiv. The renewed Russian cruise missile campaign on Ukrainian infrastructure and civilian targets came […]

Russia has warned that it might not extend the Black Sea grain initiative next month unless certain demands are met, in a move that threatens to cut off exports from Ukraine under a secured route set up in July by the United Nations. Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, said in an […]

PARIS — The French branch of Kremlin-backed RT is still accessible in France despite sanctions against Russia — and it’s unclear what can be done about it.  French President Emmanuel Macron hinted he was aware of the issue in a TV interview Wednesday evening.  “We’re using the informational weapon, and Russia was doing it even before […]

PARIS – Emmanuel Macron’s recent comments on the French response in case of a Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine have drawn fire from observers and political opponents at home. During an interview with French TV channel France 2, the French president said on Wednesday that Paris would “evidently” not use nuclear weapons in response to […]