Iran will respond to the European Union’s (EU) “final” text by midnight today, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said, calling on the United States to show flexibility in order to save the 2015 deal on Tehran’s nuclear program. “We don’t want to reach an agreement that after 40 days, two months or three months will […]
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Afghanistan: EU ‘particularly concerned’ over deteriorating conditions for women
The diplomacy of the European Union emphasized yesterday Sunday that it is “particularly concerned” about the deterioration of the living conditions of women and girls in Afghanistan, a day after the violent suppression of women’s mobilization in Kabul. Last Saturday, Taliban forces shot into the air several times and used, among other things, the stocks […]
Forest fires: Record burned areas this year in Europe
While the peak fire season is not yet over, the provisional toll is rising in the European Union with already more than 6,600,000 hectares burned since January, a record number for that time period since 2006 when the first satellite data. Since January 1, fires have destroyed 6,627,760 hectares of forests in the European Union, […]
Zelensky: EU should not be ‘supermarket’ for Russians with money
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday Friday made a new appeal to the member states of the European Union to ban the granting of passport visas to all citizens of Russia, in order to become a “supermarket” for anyone who has the means to travel to them. He hastened to add that this proposal does not […]
EU-N. Korea: Potential violation of WTO rules by US tax breaks for the purchase of electric vehicles
The European Union and South Korea have raised concerns over proposed US tax breaks for the electric vehicle market, saying they could discriminate against vehicles made outside the US market and violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. . With the $430 billion climate and energy bill passed Sunday by the Senate, Congress will lift the […]
Polish PM calls for reform against EU ‘imperialism’
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki accuses the European Union of “imperialist behavior” towards its smaller member states in an opinion piece published today on the website of German newspaper Welt. “Political practice has shown that the positions of Germany and France count more than all others,” Morawiecki wrote on the German news website and called […]
Germany’s religious war over nuclear – and who will win
By Andreas Kluth It is becoming difficult to measure Germany’s “outputs”. I am talking about those related to nuclear energy. Let’s see them. I think we are now between three and four, but closer to four. Nuclear exit number 1 started in 2000. The government then consisted of the centre-left Social Democrats and the Greens. […]
WSJ: Europe’s ‘green’ vision finds another opponent – Holland’s farmers
Cows are a hallmark of the rural Dutch landscape, as are windmills and canals. In the cities, milk is a common drink at business lunches and cheese shops abound. But soon thousands of farms may be forced to drastically reduce their cattle herds to comply with government policy. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, […]
EU: The regulation to reduce natural gas consumption by 15% was finally approved
The EU Council announced today that it has approved the regulation to voluntarily reduce gas demand by 15% this winter in order to increase the security of the EU’s energy supply. “The regulation foresees the possibility for the Council to activate an ‘EU alert’ regarding the security of supply, in which case the reduction of […]
EU: Russia ‘excuses’ Gazprom’s arguments on Nord Stream 1 turbine
“Excuses” and “mistakes” characterized Gazprom’s arguments regarding the impossibility of delivering natural gas through NordStream1, the representative of the European Commission, Eric Mamer. Asked about this during today’s press briefing in Brussels, Eric Mamer emphasized that no EU sanctions package against Russia prohibits the return and installation of the Siemens turbine in Russia. “Nothing prohibits […]