NASA may want to send a rover originally developed for Mars exploration to the moon (archive image).Image: keystone Jul 1, 2026, 4:09 amJul 1, 2026, 4:09 am After the successful “Artemis 2” mission, the US space agency NASA is continuing to work on new lunar plans. It may want to send a rover originally developed […]
Continue ReadingUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cut short his visit to Dublin on Wednesday, warning that the Kremlin would soon launch a new large-scale attack on Ukraine. Zelenskyy was attending the first day of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and, during a press conference with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, told reporters he would […]
Continue ReadingImage: keystone July 1, 2026, 7:32 p.mJuly 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m The tech giant Google is to pay the Klarna subsidiary Pricerunner the equivalent of almost 1.3 billion euros in damages. The Swedish competition court ordered the US company to do this. The reason: Google has improperly favored its own price comparison site for many […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/07/2026 – 18:13 GMT+2 The European Parliament is set to trigger a procedure against the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, home of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and other far-right political forces across Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING If ESN is found to have failed to uphold the core values of the European Union, it […]
Continue ReadingThe split is not just about SSPX’s desire to conduct Mass only in Latin. The Society, founded by controversial French archbishop Marcel Lefebre in 1970, has always wanted to preserve a kind of medieval mystique in which priests, bishops, cardinals, and the Mass itself are seen as somehow closer to God, and therefore separate from […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/07/2026 – 16:17 GMT+2 A Finnish court found an entrepreneur guilty of exporting trucks and trailers to neighboring Russia in violation of European sanctions on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years and eight months in prison. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Risto Riihimaki’s company, registered in the town of Lappeenranta near Finland’s border with Russia, exported […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union continues to offer support to Armenia while Russian trade restrictions threaten to disrupt the country’s increasingly vulnerable economy. Moscow introduced the measures during last month’s election campaign, citing apparent food safety concerns with various Armenian goods. This appears to be a punitive measure following the re-election of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, who […]
Continue ReadingThe oceans have never been warmer. They hit a record 21 degrees celcius average surface temperature in June, logged by Copernicus, the EU’s Earth-observation programme. It’s clearly taking a toll on biodiversity around the world, after years of warnings from experts. The onset of a potentially powerful El Nino weather pattern could boost global heat […]
Continue ReadingMany of the Finnish railway crossings had already seen little or no passenger traffic since direct rail links between Finland and Russia were suspended following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Finland then closed its entire eastern border in December 2023 over what it described as Russian-orchestrated “instrumentalized migration.” By contrast, the crossings at […]
Continue ReadingAs Europeans become increasingly worried about rising prices, many believe that their standard of living will worsen in the future. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Almost one-third of citizens (29 percent) believe that their personal standard of living will decline over the next five years, while only 18 percent expect it to improve, according to a Eurobarometer poll […]
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