Amazon’s European web store division has paid no tax for 2021. Bloomberg reported this based on documents it could view. The European part of the American company had a turnover of 51.3 billion euros last year but had a deficit of 1.2 billion euros below the line. As a […]
In its emissions targets, Shell no longer looks at the progress that society has made in that area. Shell previously stated that it always wanted to be emission-free by 2050, “depending on social progress”. According to Van Beurden, dropping that condition is “another step forward” that “represents the leading […]
Greek authorities have seized a Russian oil tanker off the island of Evia. In addition, new European Union sanctions over the war in Ukraine have banned ports in the Member States from allowing ships flying the Russian flag to enter. The Greek shipping ministry said that the nearly 250-meter […]
According to the Ukrainian border guard, more than 38,000 people re-entered the country on Saturday. In the other direction, about 32,000 Ukrainians have fled their country. However, Mayor Vitali Klitschko of Kyiv’s capital warns that it is still too early for citizens to return. Russia is again ramping up […]
E-commerce giant Amazon is appealing the union formation at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York. The company claims that the local office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has not adhered to the rules. Recently, workers at the warehouse in question voted to form a union in […]
Car manufacturer Volkswagen expects to be badly affected by the war in Ukraine this year. It is already disrupting supply chains for materials and components. Moreover, rising prices for commodities like steel could cause even more financial pain. Nevertheless, in the first quarter, the German group still made a […]
At least seven people have been killed and 22 injured in shelling in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv in the past 24 hours. That says the governor of the area in an online message. A 2-year-old boy is said to have been one of the fatalities in the […]
After two strong years due to the pandemic, sales of laptops and desktops appear to be declining again. However, office devices do a lot better. Both Gartner and IDC are seeing a decline in global PC sales for the first three months of this year. Gartner speaks of 77.5 […]
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2.66 million people have fled to Poland. According to the Polish border guard, 28,500 people entered the country on Sunday, slightly less than on Saturday. About 19,400 people also returned to Ukraine on Sunday. These were mainly Ukrainian citizens, according to Poland. At […]
Ukraine continues to urge NATO countries to boycott Russian oil and gas. “We will continue with that,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Koeleba said in a two-day meeting in Brussels. “I think the deal Ukraine is offering is fair. You give us weapons, and we sacrifice our lives, and the […]
