The supply of Western armoured vehicles and other weapons will only prolong the suffering of the Ukrainians and change nothing. This is how the Kremlin reacts to the announced deliveries. “Europe, NATO, and the United States have already injected tens of billions of dollars into Ukraine and arms supplies,” said […]
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The CEO of Stellantis, the car group behind Opel, Peugeot and Fiat, is afraid that Europeans will buy Chinese cars en masse in the future. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, he called on the European Union to better protect the European car industry against emerging competition […]
Germany is also introducing a mandatory corona test for travellers from China. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced this on Thursday. Travellers from China will at least have to have a rapid antigen test before leaving for Germany, the SPD politician said. Germany, like Belgium, therefore follows the recommendation of the […]
The European Commission is satisfied with several commitments from the online shopping platform Amazon to better comply with European competition rules. The deal means Amazon escapes a potential billion-dollar fine. The American company promises not to use other sellers’ data to improve its brands and stop favouring some sellers. Amazon’s […]
Facebook is abusing its power to market its advertising platform Marketplace, concludes the European Commission. If that provisional conclusion remains valid, billions of fines threaten Facebook. Facebook automatically gives its billions of users access to Marketplace, where they can advertise stuff or place classified ads. Whether they are waiting for […]
A cyber attack hit the European Parliament on Wednesday afternoon. The pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claims to be behind it, says parliament speaker Roberta Metsola. She links it to parliament’s decision earlier in the day to label Russia a sponsor of terrorism. It is an ‘advanced cyber attack’, Metsola tweets. […]
The United Kingdom does not intend to change its policy to improve its trade relationship with the European Union. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said so in response to reports that the British government would like to rethink its relationship with the EU. There was mention of an agreement that also […]
London has lost its title of largest stock exchange in Europe to Paris. The combined market value of the largest companies on the French stock exchange exceeded that of the large listed British companies measured in US dollars, reports financial news agency Bloomberg based on its data. The difference in […]
The European climate targets can probably be tightened. For example, the EU has agreed on measures to capture CO2 in forests and swamps. As a result, the Union would be able to reduce CO2 emissions by 2030 not by 55 but by almost 57 percent. The agreement “helps open the […]
The European Commission considers the massive Russian missile strikes against Ukraine and Belarus’ announcement to increase military presence at the borders as a “further escalation” of Russian aggression. The “rain of rockets” on innocent civilians is unacceptable and “doesn’t belong in the 21st century”. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s accusation that […]
