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The surging price of gas triggered a six-fold increase in profit at Woodside, Australia's largest producer of liquified natural gas, and chief executive Meg O'Neill predicted demand from Europe will continue to grow as the continent struggles to quit Russian gas. "What we've seen is unprecedented," O'Neill told the Financial Times. "Prices at this level are not sustainable in the long run," he added.

As one of its promises to Europe’s youth, the European Commission said it would follow up on demands that arose from the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) for a seat at the table while shaping the bloc’s future....

En Slovaquie, des écoles pourraient être contraintes de fermer leurs portes cet hiver en raison de la hausse vertigineuse des prix de l’électricité et du chauffage. C’est ce qu’ont indiqué des représentants d’écoles et de municipalités.

The West and Russia are in a "proxy conflict" in Serbia, Serb president Aleksandar Vučić has said after pro-Russian protesters joined right-wing ones calling for a ban on EuroPride. "I can't say that it [the protest] was a proxy attack because there were many ordinary people there ... but whether there's a proxy conflict in Serbia ... there is one, no doubt about that, East and West," he told Reuters.

Germany has said the massive deaths of fish in the Oder river were due to man-made pollution and blamed Poland for not sharing information fast enough. The reasons were "multiple and man-made" and linked to "heat, low water levels and man-made discharges", German federal environment Minister Steffi Lemke said Monday, German media reported. "If we had been informed faster by Poland, we could have reacted faster," she said.

La Lituanie a annoncé lundi (29 août) avoir achevé la construction d'une barrière le long de sa frontière avec la Biélorussie, destinée à lutter contre l'immigration clandestine.

In its scramble to find unity on how to tackle the ongoing cost of living and energy crises, as well as Russia’s war on Ukraine, Germany’s three-party government is coming together for a two-day closed-door meeting outside of Berlin.

Ukrainian troops are mounting a long-awaited counteroffensive in the southern region of Kherson, military officials have said. Ukrainian troops have broken through Russian defences in several areas of the frontline near the city, Oleksiy Arestovych a senior adviser to Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed on Monday. Russia's defence ministry acknowledged a new Ukrainian offensive had been launched in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, but said it had failed.

La ministre slovène de l’Intérieur, Tatjana Bobnar, a déclaré que la Slovénie était très favorable à l’entrée de la Croatie dans l’espace Schengen lors de sa rencontre avec son homologue croate, Davor Božinović, lundi.

The ‘Open Balkan’ initiative pioneered by Serbia, Albania, and North Macedonia, could have negative implications symbolically and in terms of genuine cooperation across the region, an analysis by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has found. Open Balkan, previously called ‘Mini-Schengen’, foresees...

Ukrainian troops bolstered by stepped-up Western military aid launched a long-awaited counter-offensive to retake territory in the south on Monday (29 August) as Russian forces shelled residential areas of the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv.

Prime Minister Edi Rama levied criticism at the European Union over its management of COVID-19 vaccine distribution during a panel where he spoke at the Bled Conference in Slovenia on Monday. He referred to the period of the pandemic when...

Slovenia is very much in favour of Croatia’s entry into the Schengen zone, said Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnar, who met her Croatian counterpart Davor Božinović on Monday. The ministers discussed preparations for an agreement on cooperation between the two countries’...

The EU is working on an "emergency intervention" plan to stem surging energy prices, which may require "structural reform of the electricity market" Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said.

EU foreign service chief Josep Borrell bemoaned on Monday that there was "no substantial outcome" during the four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), blaming Russia for its "unwillingness to join the consensus". "In the current severe security environment, a meaningful outcome strengthening existing norms … would have been needed more than ever," he said. The tenth NPT review was postponed due to the pandemic.

EU energy ministers will gather in Brussels for a specially-convened extraordinary meeting next Friday (9 September), the Czech minister of industry and trade Jozef Síkela announced. "We must fix the energy market. Solution on the EU level is by far the best we have," he tweeted. Pressure has been mounting on EU states to reform the energy market, after Germany, Belgium and Austria recently favoured decoupling gas and electricity prices.

French prime minister Elisabeth Borne warned company bosses on Monday about the risk of energy rationing this winter and urged them to take steps to reduce their consumption, AFP reported. "If we act collectively then we can overcome the risk of shortages, but unless everyone takes part and if all the bad-case scenarios come together then we could be forced to impose reductions on consumers," she said.

Russian tourists are likely to pay €80 instead of €35 for EU visas in future, as the bloc's hawks and doves debate how far to go with travel sanctions.

UN inspectors are expected to arrive at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia plant later this week, after months of seeking access to the site.

The vision of the founding fathers was to curb the absolute sovereignty of the bellicose European states rather than to vest absolute sovereignty in a new overarching European empire.