Europe
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The plan devised by High Representative Kaja Kallas to raise up to €40 billion in fresh military support for Ukraine failed to gain the necessary political traction during a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday, throwing its viability into serious doubt. The reaction was so lukewarm that some diplomats declared the project “dead”. The…
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The poorest US state has a higher GDP per capita than Europe’s top economies, except for Germany. Is this set to continue being the case in 2025? In the third quarter of 2024, Mississippi’s GDP per capita was €49,780, just €1,524 less than Germany’s at €51,304. Mississippi is followed by West Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama and…
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Smoking in outdoors and public areas in Italy’s financial and fashion capital, Milan, is now banned. It’s the toughest extension of a series of bans starting in 2021, aimed at ‘improving the quality of the city’s air’. Smoking has now been banned in outdoors and public areas in Italy’s second largest city of Milan. The…
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Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani says people responsible for torturing and killing detainees under the Assad regime will not be pardoned by his government. In a statement on Telegram, Jolani said that those who were involved would be pursued in Syria. “We will pursue them in Syria, and we ask countries to hand…
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The 14th Seimas of Lithuania convened for its first sitting on Thursday, with a series of elections on the agenda, the Baltic News Service (BNS) reported. Following the Statute of the Seimas, the first sitting was opened by the oldest MP, 73-year-old Social Democrat Birute Vesaite. The 2024-2028 parliamentary term began with a swearing-in ceremony…
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Russia’s ties with North Korea, Iran and China “threaten peace” around the world, NATO chief Mark Rutte has said. In a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, the secretary-general said Russia was continuing its “onslaught against Ukraine”, all the while “drawing ever closer to its allies – China, Iran and North Korea”. “After delivering…
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The EU has said it wants to de-risk relations with Beijing, but could the bloc face more pressure to toughen its stance if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins next week? Recent polls show Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic rival Kamala Harris neck-and-neck in the 5 November race for the US Presidency, and Europe is preparing for…
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Lithuania’s opposition Social Democratic Party (LSDP) won parliamentary election runoff on Sunday, according to preliminary results of the Central Electoral Commission. In the first round two weeks ago, LSDP won 20 seats in the Seimas, Lithuania’s parliament, and in the second round held on Sunday, the party secured 32 single-mandate constituencies. The ruling Homeland Union-Lithuanian…
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg was among scores detained on Saturday after staging a sit-in protest demanding an end to EU subsidies for fossil fuels. Climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by Belgian police on Saturday as she demonstrated against fossil fuel subsidies by the European Union. The Swedish activist was joined by dozens of demonstrators…
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The debt keeps swelling and if no action is taken, the OECD warns, it could reach 200% of the GDP by 2050. Belgium has proved relatively resistant to economic shocks and is facing a 1.4% GDP growth in 2025, however, it urgently needs to lower its debt, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
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Kirstie Allsopp has been reported to social services for allowing her 15-year-old son to interrail around Europe with a friend – but she has doubled down on her decision. The Location, Location, Location presenter said her son, Oscar, went travelling across Europe with a 16-year-old friend this summer. But after he returned, she was contacted…
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The number of completed dwellings residential units across Europe is set to decrease significantly, with 1.6 million units predicted by the end of 2024, an 8.5 percent drop from the previous year, according to the ifo Institute for Economic Research. Germany is expected to experience an even sharper decline, with a 15 percent reduction in…
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Six RAF Eurofighter Typhoons sit on the taxiway, engines roaring on two, as the ground staff hurry about, adding the finishing touches before take-off. In the distance, a cloud of dust rises in the summer haze over the construction site of the second runway, 3.5km (2 miles) long, beside the first. The hot northerly wind…
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Poland is set to impose restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday. “These will be decisions both regarding the embassy and the consular staff of the Russian Federation in Poland,” Sikorski said in Brussels after a meeting of European Union (EU) foreign ministers. According…
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Portugal’s foreign resident population has surpassed the 1 million mark for the first time, announced the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) on Monday. This historic milestone reflects a 33 percent increase in foreign residents between 2022 and 2023. According to the Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias, 329,000 residence permits were issued during this…
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China-Europe freight train services saw solid growth from January to April this year, with continuous improvements to the transport capacity, efficiency and service quality. The number of China-Europe freight train services increased by 10 percent year on year to 6,184 trips in the first four months of 2024, the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.…
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