Denmark will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) as it creates more uncertainties about investments than certainties, the Danish government announced on Thursday. The Danish government decided on Thursday to withdraw from the trade and investment agreement that aims…
In an emergency application, lawyers for the government asked the justices to stay all of a Texas judge’s ruling suspending a commonly used abortion medication. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Finnish state-owned company Fortum has hit back at Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas in the ongoing arbitration case over the construction of wind farms in Russia, saying that the Danish are only using Russian sanctions as an excuse not to…
There are serious concerns about Greece’s democratic credentials, with threats to the rule of law, harassment of officials of independent public bodies, and widespread intimidation of journalists, according to a leaked draft mission report by the European Parliament’s Committee on…
Roughly 60 countries are in serious danger of debt distress or default in the next two years, according to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and United Nations. Most are developing countries, around half of them in Africa, but should…
CAP subsidies are paid per hectare, encouraging companies and farmers to consider land as an asset and speculate on as much land as possible in order to receive more money — with few restrictions on how that land must be…
For the second time since February, a convicted murderer escaped during a medical visit, prompting calls for tougher security, including armed guards, in Swedish prisons. The 17-year-old boy, who is convicted of murdering a 54-year-old, fled together with two masked…
The Plenary Assembly of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference starts on Monday in Fatima and is expected to set up a body that will replace the Independent Commission for the Study of Sexual Abuse against Children in the Portuguese Catholic Church.…
Spain’s ruling socialist party PSOE (S&D) is not worried about losing votes to the new left-wing platform Sumar in the general elections in December as it views the grouping as an opportunity to sway undecided voters to the left, several…
National Bank Governor Petr Kažimír was found guilty of bribery and ordered to pay a €100,000 fine or risk prison for two years, according to a court order from the Specialised Criminal Court that prompted President Zuzana Čaputová and Prime…