About 30 people are missing after six houses collapsed in the west German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It happened during the night from Wednesday to Thursday due to flooding and heavy rain, regional broadcaster SWR reported Thursday. The six collapsed houses stood in the town of Schuld, near Adenau, in […]
The EU countries and the European Parliament have agreed on distributing hundreds of billions in agricultural subsidies for the coming years. The agreement, which took three years to come, is intended to make European agriculture more climate and environmentally friendly. EU agricultural subsidies should be used more to encourage […]
The trial of the husband of Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has begun. Sergei Tikhanovski was arrested last year for disturbing public order shortly after announcing his 2020 presidential election. He faces a 15-year prison sentence. The famous blogger is known as a critic of President Alexander Lukashenko. According […]
The European Commission opens a formal investigation into possible anticompetitive behaviour by Google. This mainly concerns the online advertising technology that the American company uses. The EU wants to know whether Google has violated European competition rules by prioritizing its own services over those of competitors. Brussels is also […]
European Union governments will impose sanctions on various sectors of the Belarusian economy. This includes industries that are directly related to exports, such as potash fertilizers, potash and petroleum. 86 individuals and entities will also be targeted as the country bloc increases pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko. These include […]
The European Union and the United States are about to settle their conflict over mutual subsidies to their aviation industry. Insiders expect an agreement on Tuesday when US President Joe Biden visits the European leaders. However, a solution to the dispute over steel is further away, Brussels sources say. […]
By banning the anti-corruption organization and political network of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Russia is going further than ever before, says the European Union. The ban is “the most serious attempt to date” by the Russian government “to suppress independent political opposition and investigations into corruption”. Brussels sees the […]
The French government is accelerating on Wednesday in the program to lift the corona restrictions step by step. Curfew starts two hours later and then starts at 9 pm, and patios and non-essential businesses reopen. This is admittedly with limitations concerning the number of people and the available surfaces. […]
The European Commission wants to allow vaccinated tourists from outside the European Union again. According to the union’s executive committee, even those who have not yet been vaccinated but come from a country that knows how to curb the coronavirus sufficiently should be able to travel to the EU […]
The European Parliament approves the European Union’s trade and cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom, with 660 votes in favour, 5 against and 32 abstentions. Ratification by parliament was the last necessary step for the formal, new relationship between the EU and the country that had been an EU […]
