Attack on Human Rights in Romania
By Martin Banks The Roma Foundation for Europe, a leading European advocate for Roma rights, say that it “strongly condemns” recent attacks said to target civil rights activists in Romania.
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February 22, 2025 EU advisors push for integrating CO2 removal into EU carbon trading
The European CO2 emissions trading scheme should incorporate carbon removals to boost the ramp-up of the technology, the EU climate advisory board said. Given record-temperatures in recent years, there is an “urgent need for a strong policy response to scale up removals across the EU,” said experts who advise the European Commission on climate policy today. […]
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February 21, 2025 Europe braces for a ‘new’ Germany
BERLIN – The most attentive spectators at Germany’s many pre-election party conferences were easy to miss.
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February 20, 2025 Czech government cautious over peace mission to Ukraine
PRAGUE – Czech officials have expressed strong reservations about the prospect of deploying Czech troops to a future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. Defence Minister Jana Černochová (ODS, ECR) stressed that current discussions about Czech military involvement are “very premature.”
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February 19, 2025 EU Commission leadership clueless about its own plan to tackle spyware
“There has been a communication on [spyware] already,” said EU Commission’s Executive Vice-president Henna Virkkunen.
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February 18, 2025 Alexander Rybak Meets And Greets His Fans Over Europe
Interview by Vassilios Nicolaos Vitsilogiannis (IG: @vassiliosvitsilogiannis) Alexander Rybak is a renowned Belarusian-born Norwegian musician, actor and composer. Born on May 13, 1986, in Minsk, he rose to fame after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009 with his song “Fairytale.” Rybak’s career spans multiple genres, including pop and classical music. He has released […]
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February 18, 2025 The EU says the war in Ukraine is now at a “critical moment.”
By Martin Banks The claim, by commission head Ursula von der Leyen, comes with key talks now underway between the U.S and Russia aimed at resolving the bitter war.
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February 18, 2025 WhatsApp to get added EU scrutiny
WhatsApp has reported user numbers exceeding 45 million in the EU, the threshold that subjects them to extra reporting requirements under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
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February 17, 2025 Europeans try to muster coalition on Ukraine contributions, but split on peacekeeping troops
PARIS – As a select group of European leaders meets in Paris on Monday to discuss what Europe can bring to the table in possible negotiations over Ukraine, they are not on the same page when it comes to sending peacekeeping forces just yet. In an ad hoc response to the American slapdown in Munich over […]
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February 16, 2025 Europe scrambles for series of urgent Ukraine talks
Munich, Germany – European leaders have convened a series of crisis meetings over the Ukraine peace talks, as the US sends increasingly strong signals that there will be no seat for Europe at the negotiating table.
