Supermarkets limit cooking oil purchases after supplies hit by Ukraine war
Supermarkets across the UK have placed limits on how much cooking oil customers can buy due to supply-chain problems caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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April 9, 2022 Biofuels’ impact on food security debate resurfaces amid Ukraine war
The war in Ukraine has reignited the “food vs fuel” argument surrounding crop-based biofuels, with allegations that the EU’s demand for ethanol and biodiesel exacerbates food security concerns. The biofuels industry has branded the claims “ridiculous”.
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GEOPOLITICS
April 3, 2022 A World Remade? Lessons from the Ukraine War
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco To say that the early 21st century is a turbulent era is an understatement. In the last two decades, the international system has experienced the incremental reactivation and intensification of geopolitical rivalries. As any historian can attest, such phenomenon is hardly surprising in the grand scheme of things. In this respect, […]
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EUROPE
April 3, 2022 Ukraine war pushes eurozone inflation to new record
Spiralling energy bills and disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine caused consumer prices in the eurozone to surge by a new record of 7.5% in March, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Friday (1 April).
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OPINION
March 25, 2022 Ukraine War: Lessons Learned One Month On
By Rene Tebel When Russian forces crossed the Ukrainian border in a surprise attack on four attack axes on the morning of February 24, 2022, Moscow assumed that there would be little military resistance and that the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, would be quickly captured quickly, sparing the civilian population. However, it was clear that this plan […]
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EUROPE
March 24, 2022 EU allows up to €400,000 in state aid for companies impacted by Ukraine war
A “Temporary Crisis Framework” allowing member state governments to financially support businesses impacted by the Ukraine war was adopted by the European Commission on Wednesday (23 March). As the EU cuts more and more economic ties with the Russian economy through sanctions, companies that export to or import from Russia and companies vulnerable to commodity […]
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EUROPE
March 10, 2022 Germany stands against questioning food green goals amid Ukraine war
While calls to reconsider the green goals the EU has set for the food sector have increased since Russia attacked Ukraine, German farm minister Cem Özdemir has stressed sustainability efforts should not be curtailed.
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GEOPOLITICS
March 7, 2022 The Geoconomic Front of the Ukraine War
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco In the early post-Cold War era, it was widely believed that ‒as a result of the rise of globalisation‒ traditional geopolitical rivalries would be replaced with peaceful and harmonious economic competition. Such an assumption, anchored to the worldview of classical liberalism and its successive intellectual iterations, contented that the end of the […]
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