Thursday, 30 October 2025

[Ticker] EU and Ireland warn UK on trade war

Added: 08.11.2021 6:16 | 140 views | 0 comments

The EU has warned Britain it could trigger a trade war if it suspended a Brexit-customs deal on Northern Ireland. "There is a danger" the EU would suspend the whole Brexit withdrawal deal if the UK went ahead, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney said Sunday, echoing warnings by EU commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič Friday. Masked men burned a bus in Northern Ireland Sunday amid a recent flare-up in sectarian tension.

Tags: Brexit , Ireland , Mars

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] EU condemns Iraq assassination attempt

Added: 08.11.2021 6:15 | 130 views | 0 comments

The EU has "condemned" the attempted assassination of Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi using an exploding drone which struck his home Saturday. "The perpetrators of this attempted attack must be held accountable. Any violence is unacceptable and must not be allowed to undermine the democratic process," the EU foreign-service chief Josep Borrell said Sunday. "Calm, restraint, and dialogue are essential in the post-election period," Borrell also said.

Tags: Democrats , Drones , Iran , Iraq , Prime minister

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Czech Republic set for new government

Added: 08.11.2021 6:15 | 130 views | 0 comments

Czech president Miloš Zeman has urged prime minister Andrej Babiš to resign and for opposition leader Petr Fiala to form a ruling coalition after Babiš's party lost recent elections. "I think there will be no problem there, because Andrej Babiš, who I spoke to on the phone a little while ago, is not interested in becoming prime minister," Zeman said Friday in his first remarks after being hospitalised last month.

Tags: Election , Fiat , Fire , Fox News , Hospitals , Lost , Opposition , President , Prime minister , Tom Ford

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Poles march against anti-abortion law

Added: 08.11.2021 6:14 | 158 views | 0 comments

Thousands of protesters marched against a recent anti-abortion law in several Polish cities on Saturday following the death of a woman, Izabella, after doctors declined to intervene in her pregnancy complications. Leading opposition politicians Szymon Hołownia, Rafał Trzaskowski, and Donald Tusk joined the Warsaw rally. But government propaganda outlet, TVP, attacked them for playing "political games" with "tragedy". Tusk was a "supporter of killing unborn children" TVP said.

Tags: Children , Government , Mars , Opposition , Pregnancy , Protests

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Spanish police hunt Morocco flight runaways in Mallorca

Added: 08.11.2021 6:12 | 131 views | 0 comments

Spanish police are looking for 12 people who ran away from an Air Arabia Maroc flight from Casablanca to Istanbul, which landed in Mallorca Saturday after a passenger fell seriously ill. "These people have arrived, not by sea, but in an illegal way and therefore at the very least ... they will be returned to their country of origin," Spanish regional government spokeswoman Aina Calva said on the "unprecedented" event.

Tags: big sean , Government , Istanbul , Mars , Police , Seal , Seat

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] France follows Netherlands on EU bird-flu alert

Added: 08.11.2021 6:11 | 127 views | 0 comments

France's agriculture ministry has put the country on high-alert over growing cases of bird flu, potentially fatal to humans, around Europe. "Since the beginning of August, 130 bird flu cases or clusters have been detected in wild animals or on farms in Europe," it said. "Reinforced prevention measures will therefore be implemented to protect poultry farms," it added, following similar Dutch restrictions last week on keeping poultry birds indoors.

Tags: Animals , Beer , France

Source: euobserver.com

[Analysis] Can the private-finance $130 trillion climate bet be trusted?

Added: 08.11.2021 6:07 | 130 views | 0 comments

A group of 450 banks and insurers, led by Mark Carney, have committed €112 trillion to tackle climate change between now and 2050 - but not all green projects are bankable raising questions about the for-investor profit model.

Tags: Climate change , LEDs , Mars

Source: euobserver.com

Bulgaria mental-health patients found covered in flies

Added: 08.11.2021 6:07 | 158 views | 0 comments

Neglect in Bulgarian state psychiatric hospitals and social care homes have led to degrading and inhumane conditions, says a report. It is the first time a public statement condemning such abuse has been made among the Council's 47 member states.

Tags: Beer , Fire , Hospitals , LEDs

Source: euobserver.com

[Opinion] Best reply to China is an EU trade deal with Taiwan

Added: 08.11.2021 6:06 | 127 views | 0 comments

The EU should not seek Beijing's permission to strike trade deals in the Indo-Pacific region. China itself signed a trade agreement with Taiwan in 2010.

Tags: Strikes , Taiwan

Source: euobserver.com

[Agenda] Facebook scandal and COP26 climax in focus This WEEK

Added: 08.11.2021 6:06 | 130 views | 0 comments

Facebook whistleblower is expected to meet with MEPs and representatives of the French senate this week. Meanwhile, eyes turn again to the Glasgow UN climate summit as pressure is mounting for negotiators to finish the 2015 Paris Agreement rulebook.

Tags: Facebook

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Gazprom reassures EU its gas is flowing normally

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 154 views | 0 comments

Russian firm Gazprom said Saturday that it was fulfilling European contracts after a German pipeline operator, Gascade, reported that flows via the Yamal-Europe pipeline from Russia through Poland had stopped, Reuters reports. Gazprom also signed a new five-year deal on supplies to Moldova, ending a potential energy crisis in the EU-aspirant state, amid earlier reports Russia had made political demands from Chișinău to water-down EU relations in return for fuel.

Tags: Fire , Fuel , Germany , Poland , Russia

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] EU Parliament sues Commission on rule of law

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 147 views | 0 comments

The European Parliament on Friday launched a lawsuit against the European Commission at the bloc's top court for failing to use a 'rule-of-law conditionality mechanism' on withholding EU funds for backsliders such as Hungary and Poland. "The Parliament's legal service today submitted the lawsuit against the European Commission for its failure to apply the Conditionality Regulation to the Court of Justice," the parliament said in a statement.

Tags: European Commission , European Parliament , LEGO , Poland

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] US and EU end steel trade dispute

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 154 views | 0 comments

The US and EU agreed to end a trade dispute on steel and aluminium tariffs at a G20 summit in Rome Sunday, while taking aim at China. "The US and the European Union have reached a major breakthrough that will ... [protect] American jobs and American industry," US president Joe Biden said. They would also "work to restrict access to their markets for dirty [Chinese] steel", the White House said.

Tags: Jobs , President , White House

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Almost 400 Afghan refugees arrive in Greece on boat

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 150 views | 0 comments

A cargo ship with some 382 Afghan refugees arrived in Greece on Sunday following a four-day standoff with Turkey. The Afghans are now on an Aegean island to seek asylum after having set sail from Turkey. It is the largest single number of arrivals in Greece in years. "We have notified the EU that Turkey has refused to take their vessel back," said Greece's migration minister Notis Mitarachi.

Tags: Greece , Migration , Refugees , Turkey

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Bosnia risks breakup: report

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 149 views | 0 comments

A report to the UN obtained by the warns Bosnia is at risk of breaking apart and possibly even conflict. The report references comments made by the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt, who warned Bosnia was facing "the greatest existential threat of the postwar period". He also noted that there was a "very real" prospect of a return to conflict.

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Belarusian officials should face trial in Germany, NGOs say

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 155 views | 0 comments

Six Belarusian officials responsible for shuffling refugees to Poland and Lithuania should be tried in Germany for crimes against humanity, the Geneva-based World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) and the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights said Monday. "There is clear evidence that torture was used [by Belarus authorities] intentionally and that it was widespread and systematic," OMCT secretary general Gerald Staberock said in the groups' statement.

Tags: Genes , Germany , Poland , Refugees

Source: euobserver.com

[Ticker] Skopje's Mr EU steps down from power

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 149 views | 0 comments

North Macedonia's prime minister Zoran Zaev, who had steered Skopje toward EU and Nato accession, stepped down Sunday after his Social Democrats party lost in local elections including in Skopje. "I take responsibility for these developments. I resign from f prime minister and party president," he said. His defeat "was partly ... due to failure of EU to deliver" on enlargement promises Florian Bieber from Graz University said.

Tags: AfD party , Democrats , Election , Lost , NATO , President , Prime minister

Source: euobserver.com

[Opinion] Kazakhstan and the limits of Europe's 'democracy-promotion'

Added: 07.11.2021 19:33 | 150 views | 0 comments

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, came to office with a commitment to "pave the way for the development of a multiparty system" - but there is little sign of progress two years later.

Tags: President

Source: euobserver.com

'Oleg Sentsov is not only on hunger strike for himself', says French-American writer Jonathan Littell

Added: 21.08.2018 21:28 | 129 views | 0 comments

'Oleg Sentsov is not only on hunger strike for himself', says French-American writer Jonathan Littell of the Ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned in Russia. Sentsov's hunger strike reached its 100th day on Tuesday, August 21.

Tags: Russia , Strikes , Ukraine

Source: www.france24.com

Family of French hostage Sophie Pétronin makes appeal to Macron

Added: 21.08.2018 16:25 | 129 views | 0 comments

A nephew of Sophie Pétronin, a Frenchwoman taken hostage in Mali in late 2016, has appealed to Emmanuel Macron “not to let [my] aunt die over there” and to meet with the family of the “last French hostage held in the world” at the Élysée Palace.

Source: www.france24.com

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