Disagreements over the Russian oil embargo are expected to overshadow the work of today’s EU Summit. After 5 packages of sanctions, the unity of Europeans is dangerously declining. The Berlin-based Tagesspiegel newspaper quoted the German news agency DPA as saying that “the Commission has presented a new compromise proposal in the dispute over Russian oil. […]
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Victory Party: The ‘European’ populists of Turkey?
Turkey’s national holiday is May 19th. A day with strong symbolism, dedicated to Turkish youth by the founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. On March 19, 1919, Ataturk started the war of liberation against the Western powers that lasted until the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923. At least that is what the […]
Ukraine: The Russians pound Lisichansk
Lisichansk is one of the few cities in the Ukrainian-controlled province of Luhansk. Russian attacks continue. A DW reporter was found near the front line. Anyone coming to Lysichansk in eastern Ukraine should drive as fast as possible. Call for speeding is out of the question. But when he is late, he risks a much […]
Solz and Macron are calling on Putin for a grain solution
At the initiative of Berlin and Paris, the three leaders spoke by telephone on Saturday. The focus is on trapped grains and the issue of prisoners. The phone call between German Chancellor Olaf Soltz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted about 80 minutes, according to a statement from the chancellery. The […]
DW: Reactions to Turkish προσ ‘annexation’ protocol
The Ankara-Turkish Cypriot economic co-operation protocol is a cause for concern. It contains provisions that restrict freedoms. Reactions from the Turkish Cypriot opposition. Another step towards the annexation of occupied Cyprus by Turkey is the new “protocol of economic cooperation” between Ankara and the “government” of the Turkish Cypriots. The protocol, which was signed on […]
Hungary: Cheap gasoline only for … locals
In defiance of European law, the Hungarian government decided to subsidize gasoline only for Hungarians. Strong reactions are expected in Brussels. With the official reasoning that it wants to end “gas tourism”, the Hungarian government decided, rather unexpectedly, on Thursday to ban drivers from abroad, even from other EU member states, from being supplied with […]
Υπ. G7 Energy: The goal is the phasing out of coal
The meeting of the G7 Ministries of Energy ended in Berlin. Agreement on carbon sequestration and termination of fossil fuel subsidies. All this in the shadow of the war in Ukraine. “I am leaving this meeting with good feelings,” German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke of the Greens said in the final press conference following the […]
Britain: 15 billion in households and tax on energy giants
The ever-increasing cost of living has led many Britons to a dead end as pressure on the Johnson government for drastic solutions continues to grow. For months now, Boris Johnson and his government have been calling for the Partygate affair to be forgotten and for the British people to be moved on to the realities […]
Erdogan wants to send 1 million refugees to Syria
With his eyes on the presidential election, Tayyip Erdogan is launching the mass repatriation of refugees to Syria. Refugees are worried about their future. More than 3.5 million Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey since the outbreak of civil war in their homeland. Ankara now intends to “encourage” 1 million of them to return to […]
Drugs with Assad fingerprints
A trial may shed light on the Middle East-Germany route and the involvement of Bashar al-Assad’s regime 250 kilograms of “Captagon” pills engraved on them were found by German authorities during a raid on a warehouse near the city of Regensburg a year ago. and destination Saudi Arabia. Two Syrians, who are linked to the […]
