According to EU meeting documents, the EU Commission wants to be able to trigger gas rationing for all member states “at any time.”
A previous version of the draft legislation was condemned by the European Union and International Monetary Fund last year, but the Socialist-led government has continued to push the legislation forward.
As lovely as it is to see far-flung hamlets of stone houses reinhabited, it is also sometimes difficult to find in their tenuous revival a genuine re-founding of the traditional Europe of which they were originally a part.
Vaccines targeting the BA.1, BA.4, and BA.5 strains of the Omicron variant are in developmental stages, but the European Medicines Agency is not certain all will be approved by September.
European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly called the incident “a wake-up call for all EU institutions about ensuring accountability in an era of instant messaging.”
Kukies said that weaning from European reliance on the 158 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year of gas that Russia supplies is the block’s biggest energy challenge.
The €1 billion from the EU will help the beleaguered country cover its most urgent needs. It brings the total macro-financial support from the EU to Ukraine to € 2.2 billion.
Experts attribute the present gang expansion to a rebound effect from pandemic restrictions. Spain, which imposed a strict lockdown during the first months of the pandemic, followed by year-long restrictions, is no exception. The abnormal ‘new normal’ has engendered terror in the streets.
The Ministry of Agriculture called the move from Brussels “a setback,” as it comes just when the war in Ukraine has created a global need for seeds and seed oils that farmers were ready to respond to.
The parliament’s amendments would prohibit political ad campaigns from using the data made available whenever an Internet surfer clicks the default ‘accept’ to a website’s data collection policy.
Frans Timmermans, the executive vice-president of the European Commission, said that making people suffer this winter in order to stay on track with the energy transition would ultimately be disastrous for solving ‘the climate crisis.’
The EU Commission did not initially propose a block-wide policy, but two months later, both the commission and the new Czechia presidency are ready to consider options for an EU-wide windfall tax strategy.
