EU energy ministers agree to increase share of EU energy consumption. The target is the EU’s ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This would set the path towards achieving net zero carbon emissions. EU energy ministers on Monday agreed to increase the share of European energy consumption coming from renewables such as solar or wind … Read more
Boris Johnson visits Ukraine for second time. UK offers Volodymyr Zelensky military training programme. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says Russia is failing. On Friday, Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson paid his second visit to Kyiv in less than two months, giving the Ukrainian capital a military training programme as President Volodymyr Zelensky praised Britain’s “resolute” … Read more
Brussels backs Kyiv’s bid for EU candidate status. Ukraine could join list of countries vying for EU membership by next week. Russia accuses West of “manipulating” Ukraine. Even as Russia shelled frontline Ukrainian cities and cut off gas supplies to the West, Europe offered a powerful message of unity to Ukraine on Friday, when Brussels … Read more
Russia accuses Brussels of “manipulating” Ukraine. Foreign ministry spokeswoman says Ukraine’s situation is getting “worse and worse”. Russia is conducting a military operation against pro-Russian rebels. After the EU Commission recommended that Ukraine be awarded candidate status for membership in the 27-nation bloc, Russia’s foreign ministry accused Brussels of “manipulating” Ukraine on Friday. “We see … Read more
European Union, Israel and Egypt have signed a tripartite natural gas export deal. The deal comes as the bloc seeks to diversify away from Russian energy. It will allow ‘significant’ exports of Israeli gas to Europe for the first time. For the first time, the tripartite deal will allow’significant’ Israeli gas shipments to Europe. The … Read more
With the conflict in Ukraine prompting European countries to reconsider their security policies, Denmark held a referendum on whether to rejoin the EU’s common defence policy 30 years after opting out. The vote in the traditionally Eurosceptic Scandinavian country of 5.5 million people comes on the heels of neighboring Finland’s and Sweden’s historic applications for … Read more
The European Union’s Iran nuclear negotiations coordinator, Enrique Mora, is set to visit Tehran on Tuesday, as the union seeks to break an impasse and rescue the 2015 agreement. Talks to relaunch Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with Western powers have been stalled since March, owing mostly to Tehran’s demand that Washington removes the Islamic Revolutionary … Read more
Denmark unveiled a plan on Tuesday to reduce its reliance on Russian gas by increasing renewable energy, biogas, and domestic gas production in order to become “free” of President Vladimir Putin. While the European Union has so far refused to impose a ban on Russian oil and gas as a result of the Ukraine … Read more
HELSINKI — Getting more understanding in the European Union (EU) for the Nordic environmental forestry policy was a top agenda item during new Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s visit to Finland on Wednesday. Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said at a joint press conference that the two countries would continue to work together to enhance … Read more
MINSK: An airplane carrying refugees flew from the Minsk National Airport to Iraq on Thursday, reported Belarus’s state-run BelTA News Agency. The route of the plane is Minsk – Erbil – Baghdad. About 400 Iraqi refugees were on board. They agreed to return home from Belarus after unsuccessful attempts to enter the European Union (EU) … Read more
ANKARA — Citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen would not be allowed to fly from Turkey to Belarus, announced the Turkish Civil Aviation Authority on Friday. The declaration came amid the migrant crisis currently developing at the European Union (EU)-Belarus border. “Due to the problem of illegal border crossings between the EU and Belarus, it … Read more
European Union governments have approved to eliminate the United States from the EU’s safe travel list. This means U.S visitors and those from five other countries are likely to face constricted controls, such as Covid-19 tests and quarantines. Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro, and North Macedonia have also been taken off the safe travel list. The … Read more
BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) will increase its humanitarian aid to Afghan people to over 200 million euros (236 million US dollars), announced European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday. “At today’s G7 Leaders call, I will announce an increase in humanitarian support for Afghans, in and around the country, from EU budget … Read more
Sindh Information Minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, said on Monday that Afghan migrants could enter Pakistan if civil war breaks out in the bordering country. He stated that during a summit with European Union (EU) Ambassador to Pakistan Androulla Kaminara, who called on him here in Karachi. In the meeting, consensual relations, forced labor of … Read more
On Monday, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif said that the Israeli army has been oppressing the Palestinians since 1948. While addressing in the National Assembly, Shehbaz Sharif raised the issue of the Israel-Palestine conflict and said that Israeli forces attacked the unarmed Palestinians during the month of Ramadan in Al-Aqsa Mosque … Read more
The European Union (EU) has decided to suspend its exports due to a shortage of the vaccine. However, the decision was withdrawn after strong international criticism. The European Union (EU) has said in response to a lack of availability of the AstraZeneca vaccine in its countries that exports of the vaccine to Northern Ireland will … Read more
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkey’s border into Greece despite EU pressure to do so, but he also announced a summit next week in Istanbul with European leaders to seek a solution to the problem. According to the sources of Reuters, Tens of thousands … Read more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will limit parliament’s ability to derail his Brexit plan by cutting the amount of time it will sit between now and EU exit day on Oct. 31, infuriating opponents who urged Queen Elizabeth to intervene. In his boldest move yet to take the country out of the European Union with … Read more
