Category: Politico News

The English National Health Service agency responsible for collecting blood has declared its first “amber alert” due to critically low supplies.  “NHS Blood and Transplant aims to hold above six days of blood stocks, however levels are currently predicted to fall below two days which is the threshold for an amber alert,” NHS Blood and […]

LONDON — Don’t hold your breath for a U.K. visit from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seal a much-coveted trade deal with India. New Delhi is seething over a British Cabinet minister’s comments on Indian immigration, and a key deadline now looks in doubt. British and Indian media reported that Modi planned to visit […]

LONDON — Liz Truss has ruled out cutting public spending to balance the books and finance the tax cuts announced in her controversial mini-budget. Amid fresh turmoil in U.K. markets, which have been spooked since Truss’ government unveiled an unfunded pledge to cut taxes, the prime minister said on Wednesday that she was “absolutely” not […]

WARSAW — Konrad Szymański, Poland’s Europe minister and one of the most moderate members of the country’s nationalist government, is leaving the cabinet, he announced on Wednesday. The move comes as the government takes on an increasingly anti-EU tone and sharpens attacks against Germany. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki underlined that harder edge this weekend, when […]

Germany has joined the U.S. and other major economies in calling for a “fundamental” overhaul of the World Bank to better address climate change and other global crises. German Development Minister Svenja Schulze, a governor of the bank, said Tuesday that the bank’s “current model, which is mainly based on demand from borrowing countries, is […]

The Polish pipeline operator PERN detected a leak late on Tuesday evening in one Druzhba pipeline which carries oil from Russia to Europe, the company said in a press statement. “At the moment, the causes of the incident are not known — the pumping in the damaged line was immediately turned off. The other line […]

The U.K. economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.3 percent in August, according to estimations released Wednesday by the Office for National Statistics, stoking fears of a recession. In addition, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) also shrank by 0.3 percent over the last three-month period, compared to the previous three months, the ONS statement said. The […]

In late 2021, Anna Moskwa became only the second person to head Poland’s new climate and environment ministry. But unlike her predecessor Michał Kurtyka, the COP24 president who set out clear ambitions for Poland’s energy transformation, Moskwa has focused on trying to water down the EU’s climate goals and ensuring the coal-reliant country has secure […]

Aviation is responsible for 3.6 percent of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions, and decarbonizing the sector is no easy task. But it’s one Glenn Llewellyn appears to wear lightly: In a cheerily optimistic Twitter bio, the Irishman describes his day job at Airbus as “working with my amazing colleagues on bringing aircraft emissions down to […]

Efforts to slash emissions from transport typically focus on CO2 and other gasses like nitrogen dioxide. But Christophe Rocca-Serra, the founder of Tallano Technologies, has zeroed in another major contributor to air pollution: the tiny particulate matter emitted when a driver hits the brakes. The company, founded a decade ago, has invented a device to […]