Poland must quickly change its forest management laws as the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that it violates the EU animal and bird settlement directive and prevented environmental organisations from questioning the government’s afforestation plans. In its Thursday…
Parliament will decide on Finland and Sweden’s NATO accession on 20
Anyone who has been around the diplomatic block knows that you use almost any tactic at your disposal to get what you want. When waging her ultimately successful campaign to secure the UK’s rebate from the EU budget, Margaret Thatcher’s…
Electric utility company EDP plans to invest €3 billion in Portugal by 2026, according to the strategic plan update released on Thursday, which corresponds to 12% of the total planned investment of €25 billion. EDP’s CEO, Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, and…
Lawmakers from the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) community have repeated demands for Hungary to lift its veto on the successor to the Cotonou Agreement which governs economic and political relations between the EU and the 79-country…
Belgian judges on Friday (3 March) prolonged the pre-trial detention of Greek MEP Eva Kaili, accused of receiving bribes from a corrupt network allegedly funded by Morocco and Qatar, for two more months. A second MEP accused in the sprawling…
Chinese dragon, or dove of peace? By siding with tin-pot dictators, failed states and other unprincipled entities, China reveals more of itself than it perhaps intended (Photo: Jean Beller) Just as it was expected to be entering the cruising altitude…
Moscow has demanded an official explanation from Belgrade about reports that Serbia, one of Russia’s traditional allies, had delivered a batch of rockets to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday Moscow was “deeply concerned” about the…
The subsidies available for purchasing new electric and hybrid vehicles will now amount to about €2.5 million (294 million dinars), twice as much as what was allocated last year, a newly adopted Serbian government decree states. The decree allows legal…
A high-ranking government official in Athens has denounced as “clumsy” Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi’s statement that Greece’s “strong containment” migration policy – even with pushbacks – forced a boat with migrants to go directly to Italy, resulting in a…