Former Dutch environmentalist who took controversial job at Tata Steel fired for far-right links

Donald Pols, the former director of Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of major environmental NGO “Friends of the Earth,” sparked controversy last month when he accepted the position of Chief Sustainability Officer at multinational company Tata Steel. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING On Tuesday, however, Tata Steel announced the sudden termination of Pols’s contract after just one day on […]

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European Commission responds to Italy’s call for energy cost relief flexibility

The European Commission is set to allow limited energy-related spending from fiscal rules to give EU countries more leeway to address soaring prices. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The measures announced by the EU executive on Wednesday are an attempt to reassure fiscally conservative capitals struggling with skyrocketing energy bills that are threatening industrial production. In particular, the […]

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General strike: CGTP hails strong turnout, government says country ‘operating normally’

The government has already responded to Wednesday’s general strike, downplaying its overall impact. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING At a press conference at 11.30 am, the Minister for Labor, Maria Rosário da Palma Ramalho, said that “the overwhelming majority of workers are at work” and therefore “The country is functioning normally.” According to the minister, provisional data from […]

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General strike: CGTP hails strong turnout, government says most ‘decided to go to work’

The government has already responded to Wednesday’s general strike, downplaying its overall impact. Despite this, the late afternoon was marked by disturbances outside the Assembly of the Republicwhere one of several demonstrations against the labor law was taking place on this day of general strike. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING There are records of six people being detained […]

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How smartphone use is linked to falling birth rates

According to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, the fertility rate in Germany in 2024 was 1.35 children per woman, two percent fewer than in the previous year. Provisional figures for 2025 point to a further decline, to around 654,300 births. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING But the desire to have children is still there. To analysis by the Federal […]

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