Energy Minister Claude Turmes took aim at Germany’s business-friendly FDP for stalling the combustion engine row over the past few weeks and criticised Paris for its recent repeated attempts at pro-nuclear lobbying. Turmes, a green politician and former EU lawmaker,…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will visit China this week to explore how Beijing could play a more prominent role in ending the war in Ukraine, as relations with the world’s biggest economy pose no major hurdles. Sánchez will be…
The attempt to interfere in the work of the media by the presidential press secretary Kiril Atanasov was registered as a threat by the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), which has registered 94 cases of violations of…
Germany will send financial support to Kenya to boost the country’s production of fertilisers with green hydrogen produced by renewable energies to help reduce the country’s dependence on fossil-fuelled fertiliser imports. Funds set to support climate-friendly fertiliser production in the…
President Emmanuel Macron’s supporters, including in government and parliament, are divided on strategy regarding the “mediation” proposed by French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) leader Laurent Berger on behalf of the inter-union group on Tuesday. Berger renewed his wish to…
Inadequate social benefits, racial profiling, inadequate protection of unaccompanied children seeking asylum, poor housing, increased pressure on media freedom, and failure to reach climate targets were listed as Austria’s human rights failures, Amnesty International wrote in its annual report. Amnesty…
With a strong governor, a Legislature passing a raft of liberal measures and a looming early presidential primary, Democrats are testing the promise and pitfalls of complete control of the state. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…
The bipartisan action to roll back resolutions from 1991 and 2002 was a major advancement in a long-running bid by Congress to claw back war powers from the executive branch. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have…
Ukrainian children in a bomb crater from a Russian missile which hit a playground in Kyiv, October 2022 (Photo: Myroslava Barchuk) As the world immediately knew within minutes of its announcement, on 17 March the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued…
Over the past year, Vladimir Putin has compared himself to empire-building eighteenth century Russian Czar Peter the Great, and has attempted to annex entire regions of Ukraine while declaring that he is “returning historically Russian lands.” A recently leaked document…