By Martin Banks The European Union says it “regrets” the Georgian Dream’s decision not to pursue the opening of EU accession negotiations and rejecting EU financial support until 2028.
The regional President of Valencia, Carlos Mazón, refused to resign on Sunday, a day after thousands protested, accusing the centre-right politician of mishandling the disaster.
Europe’s power grid is under pressure, faced with growing demand from electric vehicles and heat pumps as well as lagging investments in new infrastructure. Is a blackout imminent?
McDonald’s has come in for criticism for continuing to trade in Russia in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The European Commission’s ambition to tie the EU’s farming subsidies programme to the European Green Deal is set to fall victim to pressure from member states in a behind-closed-doors procedure.
A group of ten European countries have heaped pressure on the European Commission to grant nuclear energy a ‘green’ label under the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy, which acts as a guide to climate-friendly investments.
A phone call that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was advised to make to Afghanistan’s foreign minister but which was delegated to a junior minister did not take place, it has emerged.
Boris Johnson is facing growing pressure to allow fully vaccinated people who have been identified as close contacts of coronavirus cases to be exempt from isolation.
Pressure is mounting on Matt Hancock to resign – and on Boris Johnson to call in the Government’s ethics adviser – after the Health Secretary was caught kissing a close aide in breach of coronavirus restrictions.
Boris Johnson was under increased pressure to rethink his planning reforms as they were partly attributed to the Conservatives’ shock defeat in the Chesham and Amersham by-election.
