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Third Bulgarian election in 2021 appears to break the logjam

In Bulgaria’s November 14 elections, the robust anti-corruption oriented “We Proceed the Change” get together (PP), gained 25.7% of the vote, based mostly on a nearly-complete ballot rely released November 16. After two inconclusive elections held previously this yr, the PP social gathering, launche...

What happens when due diligence cannot or will not be applied?

When due diligence and a primary compliance course of just isn't adopted dangerous things occur. On October 21, 2021, an investigative journalist centre revealed a story that shortly turned a nationwide scandal in Slovakia. Some 28 corporations have been allegedly paid virtually €24 million as a par...

Germany suspends Nord Stream 2 certification delaying commissioning well into 2022

Germany’s Federal Community Agency (BnetzA) suspended its certification of the Nord Stream 2 pure fuel pipeline from Russia to Germany on November 16 which can delay the beginning date into the first quarter or probably the second quarter of 2022. A spokesman for Nord Stream 2 AG advised New Europe...

COP26: Climate pledges don’t match up with policies or consumer behavior

After greater than two weeks of negotiations in the course of the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, diplomats from virtually 200 nations lastly agreed on two major points: ramp up the battle towards local weather change and help at-risk nations put together. Specifically, gov...

Ireland’s climate action plan must look beyond de-growth led by the state

The Republic of Ireland has committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, after the coalition authorities of Fianna Fail, Advantageous Gael and the Greens passed the climate bill back in March 2021. Little policy has been put in place to realize the 7 per cent per yr emissions reductions which ca...

The power of investigative journalism

In February 2018, a younger Slovak investigative journalist named Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, Martina Kusnirova, have been brutally murdered in their house in Velka Maca, east of Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava. Earlier than being gunned down, Kuciak had revealed a number of articles that ta...

New railway agreements reveal the contours of Central Asia’s rapid integration

The knowledge conflict is so intense these days that unsung melodies are sometimes more alluring that the sung ones. The strains from English poet Shelley’s famous ode To a Skylark come to mind — ‘In the broad day-light / Thou artwork unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight…’ Two events prior to n...

Which role for electrification in the European green deal?

Electrification is probably the most cost-effective and reliable method to decarbonize the EU financial system in lower than three many years. Realizing it now would permit Europe to avoid the worst penalties of local weather change and ship vital benefits for both its financial system and residents...

Building an energy company of the future: Why innovation is essential for the oil and gas industry to survive

As COP26 gathers pace, along with the current Dutch courtroom ruling that Shell must scale back its emissions by 45% by 2030, and within the wake of activist investor and board member pressures at ExxonMobil and Chevron, it has turn into no secret that the power transition has necessitated a paradig...

Millicom becomes largest foreign investor in Guatemala

Millicom, the Luxembourg headquartered firm that sells cellular and broadband providers in Latin America and Africa, stated on November 11 that it'll purchase out its venture associate in Guatemala and take full control of its operations. The $2.2 billion deal is the largest-ever single overseas fun...

Issue 1412: Crisis on the Polish -Belarusian border (Digital Edition)

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Lukashenko would not dare cut gas supplies to EU without Kremlin’s permission

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to chop fuel provides to Europe transiting his country if the European Union imposed further sanctions in response to the migrant crisis created by Belarus at its border with Poland. Nevertheless it’s unlikely Russian President Vladimi...

Crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border

Using human lives to blackmail the governments of rival nations is as previous as human civilization. In recent times, nevertheless, nations corresponding to Turkey, and now the former Soviet republic of Belarus, have taken this concept to a new degree – the weaponization of poor and under-edu...

Polish regions beat a retreat on anti-LGBTQ+ resolutions

WARSAW — Polish regions are scrambling over themselves to junk resolutions denouncing what they referred to as “LGBT propaganda” after dealing with the threat of dropping billions in EU funding. Four regional assemblies have already dropped this resolutions in the previous few days...

Top generals contradict Biden, say they warned him not to withdraw from Afghanistan

Prime generals informed lawmakers beneath oath on Tuesday that they advised President Biden early this yr to maintain several thousand troops in Afghanistan — instantly contradicting the president’s comments in August that no one warned him to not withdraw troops from the nation. The exception...