Category: The European Times

The regulation on the voluntary reduction of gas demand by 15% this winter foresees the possibility for the Council to trigger a “Union alert” and then the reduction of gas demand would become mandatory.

The factory in Belgium, billed as the world’s largest chocolate factory, said it had resumed operations after being closed for six weeks to deal with a salmonella contamination. Three of the 24 production lines at the plant in the town of Wiese have been restarted and the first delivery has been made, the Swiss company […]

Marriage is the union of a man and a woman established by God in Paradise (Gen. 2:18-24; Matt. 19:6). Church marriage is performed and sanctified by the sacrament of Marriage. According to the apostle Paul, marriage is like the union of Christ and the Church: “The husband is the head of the wife, just as […]

“Hounds of Love” is a song from the eponymous album by Kate Bush, released in 1986. The album was the one of Kate’s consecration album, a “concept album” which showed to the world that Bush was not only the most popular female singer of the UK pop scene, but a crazy lady capable of pushing […]

According to a study that examined the movements of their eyes and bodies during sleep, it is possible that these tiny spiders are not just resting, but dreaming – entering a sleep state remarkably similar to rapid eye movement sleep ( REM), seen in humans and other vertebrates. This could expand our understanding of sleep […]

FAIRIES Where the scythe cuts and the sock rives,No more fairies and bee-hives. Laugh like a pixy (i.e., fairy). Waters locked! waters locked! (A favourite cry of fairies.) Borram! borram! borram! (The cry of the Irish fairies after mounting their steeds.Equivalent to the Scottish cry, “Horse! horse and hattock!”) To live in the land of […]

Author: A. Storkey King Herod the Great None of the modern monarchs have any real power. In Great Britain, Elizabeth II and several other members of the royal family have formally led the state for half a century, but it is no secret that political power belongs to completely different people. In the US, royals […]

How to explain to superstitious people that various signs have nothing to do with the Orthodox holiday? The site www.pravmir.ru explains in a series of interviews of Oksana Golovko with Orthodox clergymen. For some, the essence of the holiday is that on this day it is impossible to wash, cut your hair, and it is […]

Author: Joseph, Metropolitan of the USA, Canada and Australia, Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate     On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Metropolitan Andrey of New York – August 9, 1972 A popular proverb says: “A good start is a job half done”. If we take the beginning of the […]

Russia and Mali will strengthen practical cooperation for the delivery of Russian food, fertilizers and fuels to the country, the Kremlin press service reported on another detail of the conversation between Putin and Goita In a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the leader of the military junta and interim president of Mali, Assimi […]