Finland has formally confirmed it intends to join Nato, abandoning decades of military non-alignment in a historic policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The president and the government’s foreign policy committee have agreed that after consulting parliament, Finland will
Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel facilities Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. Meanwhile, two fires were reported at oil facilities in western Russia, not far from the Ukrainian border. It was not clear what caused the blazes. As both sides in the […]
A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against Covid-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves. The man from the eastern Germany city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, is […]
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed InvestEU agreements as part of the bloc’s stimulus package. The package aims to help EU member states recover from the coronavirus crisis. The EC describes the InvestEU programme as a vital pillar in the bloc’s “largest ever stimulus package to recover from the COVID-19 […]
As Russia continues to supply gas to Europe via pipelines, it is also warning that deliveries to Germany via Nord Stream 1 could be stopped. Moscow stressed that it could cut deliveries to Germany via the pipeline following Berlin’s recent decision to halt the launch of the completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Reuters reports. Gascade, […]
The European Union has presented a new proposal intended to end the bloc’s dependency on Russian gas completely in the long run, while drastically cutting its consumption as soon as this year. “We must become independent from Russian oil, coal and gas”, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, declared in a statement issued today. […]
The European Commission has prepared a fresh batch of sanctions against Russia and Belarus, the latest move by the EU to increase the economic pressure on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. The new sanctions expand on the existing list of Russian oligarchs who have already had their European assets frozen and are not allowed […]
The COVID pandemic has disproportionately affected women and girls in a myriad of ways. From increased gender-based violence, to an increased burden of care, from the economic impact on sectors disproportionately populated by women, to insecurity of work contracts. The recovery should therefore put women at the heart of the solutions, which we will also […]
Ukrainian officials investigating Tuesday’s cyberattacks that brought down websites belonging to its Ministry of Defense, army and popular banks are now calling the incident the “largest” of its kind in the history of the country – and suspect Russia is the culprit. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come as U.S. and NATO continue to cast […]
The Turkish president and wild card of Nato diplomacy, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will fly to Kyiv on Thursday to offer himself again in the role of mediator between Ukraine and the Russian president Vladimir Putin. He will be joining the flock of overseas leaders lending their support to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy and is expected […]