Category: Europe

According to BBC News: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy have arrived in Kyiv for a pivotal joint visit, amid Ukraine’s call for the right to use US and British long-range missiles against Russia. Following talks in London, the two diplomats traveled to the Ukrainian capital to meet President […]

Berlin/Seeon – In a decisive move to stem the tide of unauthorized migration, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has ordered comprehensive border checks at all German land borders, starting September 16 and lasting for an initial six-month period. This sweeping measure, revealed by government sources on Monday, builds on existing controls at the borders with […]

According to a BBC News reports: The EU faces an “existential challenge” unless it vastly increases investment and reforms its industrial policy, a report ordered by the European Commission has warned. The wide-ranging and long-awaited review, which was led by former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, said the bloc must increase spending by €800bn […]

KYIV: Russia on Sunday said its forces had advanced in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv reported deadly air attacks and urged the West to allow it to carry out more retaliatory strikes inside Russia’s borders. Moscow has upped its aerial attacks in recent weeks at the same time it tries to fight off a major Ukrainian […]

ROME: Italy’s culture minister quit on Friday after controversy over a consultancy role for his former mistress that had become an embarrassment for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government. Gennaro Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, has faced a media storm since self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur Maria Rosaria Boccia said last month she had been nominated “adviser to […]

According to BBC report: Tens of thousands of people are protesting across France against the nomination of right-wing Michel Barnier as the new prime minister, after an inconclusive election in which the left won the largest number of seats. Demonstrations are underway in cities including Paris, Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Starsbourg. The protests were called […]

Russian strikes on the Ukrainian central city of Pavlograd on Friday killed one person and wounded more than 60 others, including several children, officials said. Russia has stepped up aerial strikes on Ukraine since Kyiv launched an unprecedented cross-border offensive into Russia’s Kursk region last month. Five Iskander ballistic missiles were fired from Russian territory […]

BERLIN: According to German Electronic Media reports: Germany’s migration policy has sparked intense debate within the government. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) recently emphasized that all migration proposals must align with the Basic Law, EU law, and international regulations. However, he now seems to be considering legal avenues for turning back refugees at the borders — […]

PARIS (Reuters): French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as his new prime minister on Thursday, after weeks of drawn out talks following an inconclusive snap election. Barnier, aged 73, led the EU’s talks with Britain over its exit from the bloc from 2016-2021. Prior to that, the conservative […]

VLADIVOSTOK: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was ready for talks with Ukraine, after having previously rebuffed the idea of negotiations while Kyiv’s offensive into the Kursk region was ongoing. Putin said a preliminary agreement reached between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in the first weeks of the war at talks in Istanbul, which […]