Category: NEWS

Climate Goals Remain Elusive as Egypt Summit Wraps Up

Developing countries are pleased with the passing of the ‘Loss and Damage’ fund. Rich(er) countries, with their more developed industries, are to pay for ‘climate damage,’ thereby correcting what their beneficiaries perceive as an injustice.

UK to Help Protect Ukrainian Skies with £50m Air Defense Package

For weeks now, Russian air assaults have been wreaking havoc on Ukrainian infrastructure. According to Kyiv, these have now destroyed nearly 50% of the country’s energy infrastructure, leaving 10 million Ukrainians without power.

Finnish Solo Sailor in Shipwreck is Rescued

According to the website of Yachting Monthly, Lehtinen escaped the sinking boat by activating an emergency life raft as well as his personal locator beacon.

Italy Holds Firm Stance on Immigration

Italy calls for better cooperation between NGO ships, the countries whose flags they fly and the countries where the ‘Search and Rescue’ (SAR) procedure comes into effect.

Macron Considers Compulsory Vaccination For All

Macron Considers Compulsory Vaccination For All

President Emmanuel Macron called for a “summer of mobilisation” in France, announcing the mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers. “If the health situation remains under control for the moment, only a massive vaccination campaign will be able to prevent a new wave of hospitalisations as soon as August and new restrictive measures,” French president Emmanuel Macron […]

July 13, 2021
Migrant Crisis At The Belarus-Lithuanian Border

Migrant Crisis At The Belarus-Lithuanian Border

EU deploys border force in Lithuania as Belarus allows migrants to cross into the Baltic country. The EU’s border protection agency on Monday said it was mobilizing a rapid intervention force to Lithuania, where the government has accused neighboring Belarus of allowing hundreds of migrants to cross illegally into the country, Politicio.eu reports. “It seems […]

July 13, 2021
Anti-Elite Party Makes Gains In Bulgaria Election

Anti-Elite Party Makes Gains In Bulgaria Election

Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear winner on Sunday. The new anti-elite party There Is Such a People (ITN) got almost as much votes, as the centre-right GERB party of former premier Boyko Borissov. Bulgaria’s second election since April reflects deep divisions in the European Union’s poorest member state over the legacy of […]

July 12, 2021
Pro-Western Forces Win Moldova Election

Pro-Western Forces Win Moldova Election

Moldova’s president Maia Sandu’s party won the Eastern European country’s parliamentary election on Sunday. The president’s party gained enough parliamentary seats to ensure the country’s pro-Russian opposition cannot obstruct the broad reformist agenda that won her the presidency in November last year, Euronews reports. Sandu said that she hoped the result would mark “the end […]

July 12, 2021
Slovenia Is Now Presiding Over The EU

Slovenia Is Now Presiding Over The EU

Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Janša has told the country’s parliament that the EU must come up with strategic answers to strategic challenges, working both on its soft and hard power to become a major player regionally and globally. As Euractiv.com quotes Janša, the bloc has for years been dealing mainly with the consequences of a […]

Donald Tusk Returns To Poland

Donald Tusk Returns To Poland

Once prime minister of Poland, then president of the European Council, and later the leader of the European People’s Party, Donald Tusk is now back in Polish politics. “I’m back in 100 percent,” he told a congress of Civic Platform (PO), the conservative-liberal party he founded in 2001. Donald Tusk is now the head of […]

Conservative Parties Declared Stance on Future of Europe

Conservative Parties Declared Stance on Future of Europe

Parties from 16 EU countries, including Frances’ Rassemblement National, Poland’s PiS, Hungary’s Fidesz, and Italy’s Lega, united on 2 July with the objective of making their voice heard in the debate on the future of Europe. The leaders of the European conservative and right-wing parties signed simultaneously in several European capitals a document calling for […]