Belarus said Tuesday (7 December) it was imposing a ban on imports of foods from a number of Western countries after the United States and Europe widened sanctions on Minsk amid a severe crisis in ties.
L'équipe dirigeante des Verts est équilibrée entre pragmatiques et personnalités de gauche, tandis que le FDP a promu des alliés du leader du parti et du nouveau ministre des Finances, Christian Lindner.
la Secrétaire générale du Conseil de l'Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, a adressé une lettre mardi (7 décembre) au ministre polonais des Affaires étrangères, Zbigniew Rau.
EU health ministers, meeting in Brussels on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Slovenia's Janez Poklukar, called for fast and coordinated action to tackle the surge in infections and the spread of the Omicron variant, supporting the general applicability of the EU digital COVID certificate and emphasising the importance of booster jabs.
Greece is transitioning away from coal, but investments in natural gas are "rational and unavoidable" because they are needed to support renewable energy, Alexandra Sdoukou told EURACTIV.
Während Deutschland und andere EU-Länder über eine Corona-Impfpflicht diskutieren, sieht die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) sie nur als "absolut letztes Mittel".
Après avoir participé aux grèves du climat, les jeunes se ruent sur les études en lien avec l’environnement et le développement durable. Témoignages.
Following a critical meeting between President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the White House published a Readout of 145 words. For 121 minutes of conversation between the two presidents. This is the crucial sentence: “President Biden voiced...
Le groupe de la Gauche européenne a demandé au chef de la diplomatie de l'UE, Josep Borrell, d'intervenir dans le cas de l'eurodéputé grec Stelios Kouloglou, qui s'est vu refuser un visa pour se rendre aux États-Unis.
"Work is already underway for ... disconnection of Russia from the Swift banking system, sanctions on the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 [to Germany]," if it invades Ukraine, Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkēvičs said in The Guardian Tuesday. "If [Russian president] Vladimir Putin wants to see gas flow through that pipeline, he may not want to take the risk of invading Ukraine," US national-security adviser Jake Sullivan told Reuters.
The National Assembly of the Serb entity, Republika Srpska (NSRS), will discuss the return of entity competencies transferred to the state level on Friday at noon, the Assembly has announced. According to the announcement, the NSRS Board adopted the Proposal...
The majority of Europe's population living in urban areas is exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution, said the European Environment Agency on Tuesday. Over 90 percent of urban population is exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone above those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The European Commission has launched a revision of EU air quality standards to align them to WHO recommendations.
The UK suffered a record rise in the number of deaths caused by alcohol misuse in 2020, Reuters reports. Public health officials said the rise was linked to the wider social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, some 8,974 people died of alcohol-specific causes, 18.6 percent more than in 2019 and the largest increase since records began in 2001, the Office for National Statistics said.
The European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said on Tuesday that evidence suggest that different vaccines against Covid-19 can be mixed and matched for both initial courses and boosters. "[This approach] may offer flexibility in terms of vaccination options, particularly to reduce the impact on the vaccine rollout should a vaccine not be available for any reason," the EU agencies said in a statement.
Slovak MEP Michal Wiezik from the Progresívne Slovensko party has joined the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, leaving the centre-right European People's Party, Renew announced on Tuesday. Wiezik has been an MEP since 2019 and worked on environmental issues. With his addition Renew Europe, which is the third-largest faction in the parliament, grows to 101 MEPs from 23 member states.
Die USA haben Russland für den Fall eines Angriffs auf die Ukraine mit Maßnahmen gegen die deutsch-russische Ostseepipeline Nord Stream 2 gedroht.
The number of COVID-19 PCR tests carried out in Albania has fallen to a 13-month low, with just 13,781 tests carried out over the last seven days. This is an average of just 1968 tests a day, as reported by...
A suspected member of the team that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Khalid Alotaibi, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Tuesday, sources told Reuters. France acted on a warrant issued by Turkey. French radio RTL said the person arrested was a former Royal Guard of Saudi Arabia who is believed to have been involved in the Kashoggi killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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