Category : Updates

The Czech Republic’s economy in 2021

As everyone is aware of, the Czech Republic has undergone critical financial and political modifications because the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Change was additionally accelerated with the partition of Czechoslo...

Why Europe needs a climate-forward innovation policy

Orca, the most important direct air seize and storage facility up to now, lately commenced operations in Iceland and is predicted to suck some 4000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the environment yearly. With growing climate ambition and the new...

How Facebook’s quest for profits is paved on hate and lies

Facebook’s former worker Frances Haugen, in an interview on “60 Minutes,” explained to host Scott Pelley that the social media big has conducted internal experiments that reveal simply how shortly and efficiently its customers are pushed down rabbit...

Kharkiv becomes an EBRD Green City, joins innovative urban sustainability program

Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, is accelerating its funding in inexperienced options by joining EBRD Green Cities, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Improvement (EBRD)’s flagship city sustainability program, the EBRD stated. In a memor...

Uzbekistan seeks energy hub role for Central Asia

Growing integration of national power techniques across the 5 nations of Central Asia is helping to ease congestion and energy outages arising from peak energy utilization, Uzbekistan’s First Deputy Power Minister Azim Ahmedkhadzhayev stated. Based o...

Satisfied OPEC+ keeps oil supply status quo

At the OPEC+ meeting, which came towards a backdrop with Brent buying and selling slightly below $80 per barrel, oil ministers selected October four to help the prevailing deal, which can see a complete 400,000 barrels per day added each month, glad...

Enlargement: EU’s turgid Brdo Declaration seen as a “fail”

The 2 EU candidate nations hoping for a serious jump-start to their long-delayed EU accession procedures suffered a serious setback on October 6 at Brdo, Slovenia, the place the EU and Western Balkan leaders met to map out the subsequent part of the...

The West needs to unite to fight for human rights

Human rights seem nonexistent in immediately’s world. That’s as a result of the world’s democracies are usually not preventing for it. Whereas the world’s dictatorships all the time appear to have each other’s backs, the world’s democracies are faili...

Russia puts the freeze on EU, gas supplies limited, prices spike

With fuel costs surging, Members of the European Parliament have referred to as for an investigation into market manipulation from state and non-state actors, and into the EU carbon market speculation to measure the impression that both elements are...

A ban on targeted advertising would be an own goal for digital Europe

The EU has hailed its Recovery Plan for Europe as a “once in a lifetime probability to emerge stronger from the pandemic”. However regardless of a dedication to making the Union extra digital, the truth of Brussels policymaking paints a very totally...

INTERVIEW with Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov

Having secured his re-election to a 3rd time period in November 2020, Gennady Trukhanov spoke to New Europe about what he hopes to realize for Odessa, certainly one of Ukraine’s most necessary economic and cultural centers, during his new manda...

Why the Taliban’s promise to stop the opium trade rings hollow

One of the first announcements the Taliban made after seizing power in Afghanistan in August was that they have been going to “ban the manufacturing and sale of medicine.” But, as with different promises of change made by the Taliban, from ladies’s r...

Issue 1406: Kosovo-Serbia tensions fading after deal reached (Digital Edition)

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Morocco and EU to defend trade agreements after court ruling

The European Union and Morocco should re-examine their commerce agreements after an EU courtroom annulled on September 29 an present ruling that had been handed down by the European Council on agriculture and fisheries agreements with Rabat. Despite...

MEPs call for binding methane emissions target

In a report on the EU Strategy to scale back methane emissions, Members of the European Parliament referred to as on September 28 for binding discount targets on methane emissions to succeed in EU climate objectives and improve air quality. The Setti...