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New EU trade rules ‘green squeeze’ the Global South
The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. These are noble aims. They have been a long time coming. But without careful design and more proactive support for business and...
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Germany urges industrialized nations to live up to their climate pledges
Germany on Thursday called on industrialized nations to live up to their climate pledges, and not to cut down funds for developing countries. “We in the industrialized countries need to continue to live up to our...
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LNG replaces Russian gas in EU's energy basket over past 3 years
Russia's share of natural gas imported by European Union (EU) countries has fallen from 41% to 10% over the last three years, while the share of LNG has risen from 20% in 2021 to 41% by the end of 2023. According to information from the latest LNG report published by the EU Agency for Cooperation of...
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Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert
Mosquito-borne diseases are spreading across the globe, and particularly in Europe, due to climate breakdown, an expert has said. The insects spread illnesses such as malaria and dengue fever, the prevalences of which have hugely increased over the past 80 years as global heating has given them the...
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‘Waiting for Trump’: Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes
Europe’s most isolated leader was beaming. Standing in a hallway in Brussels, Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, spoke excitedly about the politician he hopes will change his political fortunes – Donald Trump. The longtime leader, who has been widely criticised for undermining Hungary’s...
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China ‘gravely concerned’ over EU raids on security equipment company
China has expressed “grave concern” over raids carried out by European officials on a Chinese company that manufactures security equipment. EU competition regulators on Tuesday raided offices of Chinese company Nuctech in the Netherlands and Poland as part of a probe into unfair state subsidies.Keep...
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YouTuber Fidias runs independent in EU elections
Influencer and YouTuber Fidias Panayiotou said he hopes his independent candidacy to June’s European Parliament elections “will bring something new and different for voters.” Speaking to the media on Wednesday after officially submitting...
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How will Rishi Sunak fund higher defence spending?
It’s time for us to rearm,” Rishi Sunak said yesterday at a press conference with the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk. His call to arms – which, strangely, lacked gravitas despite its implication – came as he announced plans to boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030. This is part...
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Parallel economy
When Moscow resident Zoya, 62, was planning a trip to Italy to visit her daughter last August, she saw the perfect opportunity to buy the Apple Watch she had long dreamed of owning. Officially, Apple does not sell its products in Russia. The California-based tech giant was one of the first companies...
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EU grants five-year Schengen visas for citizens of Saudi, Oman and Bahrain
The European Union (EU) has revealed plans to issue five-year Schengen visas to citizens of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain, facilitating multiple visits to the bloc. During the inaugural session of the first high-level Forum on Regional Security and Co-operation between the EU and the Gulf...
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