LAST UPDATE: 18:52 The accusations against Russia, which the West blames for the global grain supply problem due to its attack on Ukraine, are “baseless”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a telephone conversation with Austrian Chancellor Carl Nehamer. According to a Kremlin statement, Putin “stressed that efforts to hold Russia accountable for the difficulties […]
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EU: Ukraine, energy, food security and defense to be discussed at European Council on 30-31 May
Ukraine, energy, food security and defense are the topics to be discussed at the European Council on 30-31 May in Brussels. The first item on the European Council’s agenda is the situation in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky will address a teleconference to European leaders at the beginning of the debate. “One of our most pressing […]
Albania: Offers former Soviet Pasaliman naval base to NATO
Albania is offering NATO a naval base in a bid to boost value in the North Atlantic Alliance “in these difficult times”, the prime minister’s office said on Thursday. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the Pasaliman naval base, 180km south of Tirana, could be an “added value” for the Alliance and that Albanian authorities […]
Swedish Foreign Minister: No Swedish politician represents PKK
A report claiming that some politicians in Sweden represent the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish armed group declared illegal by the EU, is completely unfounded, the Swedish Foreign Minister said today. “False reports that Swedish politicians in democratic organizations represent the PKK terrorist organization,” Anne Linde wrote on Twitter. “These are serious allegations that […]
Tsavousoglou returns: Greece also delayed Macedonia’s accession to NATO
During Mevlüt ÇavuÅŸoλουlu’s press conference with the Foreign Ministers of Poland and Romania in Ankara today, in order to justify Turkey’s negative stance on Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO, he said that other countries have occasionally encountered obstacles. in NATO, like Greece with ‘Macedonia’, as it called Northern Macedonia. According to sigmalive, Tsavousoglou accused […]
The G7 is committed to eliminating coal from energy production
Ministers of the world’s richest democracies today agreed to work to eliminate coal-fired power, although they could not set a date for it, and said energy shortages caused by the Russia-Ukraine war they must not derail efforts to combat climate change. The commitment, announced at the end of the G7 talks in Berlin, is weaker […]
Emanuel Macron: The agitator of Europe returns to Brussels
An agitator, a driving force or a leader of Europe? Emanuel Macron returns to Brussels on Monday for his first European summit since his re-election as president of France, bringing in shocking proposals for European Union reform and Ukraine’s accession to Europe. The French president was re-elected with 58% of the vote on April 24 […]
Lavrov: West’s ‘total war’ against Moscow will last a long time
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today denounced the “total war” against Russia, which he said would last “a long time.” “The West has declared a full-scale war against us, against the whole of the Russian world,” Lavrov said during a meeting with Russian provincial officials. “We can say that this situation will last for a […]
Kremlin accuses Ukraine of ‘contradictory’ statements on peace talks
The Kremlin said today that it blamed Ukraine for “freezing” peace talks between the two countries, saying it was unclear what Kyiv wanted. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov told a news conference: “The Ukrainian leadership is constantly making contradictory statements. This does not allow us to fully understand what the Ukrainian side wants.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr […]
The EU is considering imposing a two-phase embargo on Russian oil
Some European Union leaders are pushing for an agreement that would ban oil shipping and temporarily allow deliveries via a main pipeline to give Hungary – which has no access to the sea – more time to adjust, according to Bloomberg. his post on Europeans’ efforts to reach an agreement on new sanctions against Russia. […]
