Saturday
14th May 2022
British foreign secretary Liz Truss said the UK has "no choice but to act" on the Northern Ireland protocol governing post-Brexit trade during a call with EU Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič — who warned unilateral action was "simply not acceptable".
Valdimir Putin's equivalent to Nato — the Collective Security Treaty Organization of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Armenia, Tajikistan, and Belarus — is convening in Moscow next week to give cover that Russia is not alone in its war against Ukraine.
MEPs have raised questions about the involvement of the EU — through its funding — in the development of the Israeli NSO Pegasus software, directly or indirectly, which has been used to target activists and journalists in Europe.
International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva is among those warning that increases in food and energy prices due to the Ukraine war will trigger social unrest. Pakistan and Sri Lanka are proof that this is already happening.
Russia was not invited to an international donor conference on Syria in Brussels given its war in Ukraine. Moscow had also recently threatened to veto a humanitarian corridor from Turkey to Syria.
Civil society groups in Hong Kong have suffered the wrath of the John Lee-led crackdown as security tsar. Now he is the chief executive of Hong Kong itself.
The UK rejected proposals by the EU to tweak the protocol governing trade in Northern Ireland, and has threatened to suspend the rules as loyalists lost their majority in the Northern Ireland elections.
The EU may spend up to €20m in non-lethal weapons to help Rwanda's military operations in Mozambique. The EU is also training Mozambique armed forces, which has courted Russia's Wagner group.
Italian prime minister Mario Draghi called for the EU to abandon its requirement for unanimity on foreign policy decisions but also called for EU help to mitigate the economic fallout of the war in Ukraine.
World Press Freedom Day: two sinister and distinct trends in harassment against reporters have emerged: the onslaught of online abuse targeting — in particular — women journalists, and the weaponisation of laws against media practitioners.
International attention on Ukraine is leading to funding shortfalls for aid agencies elsewhere — such as inSyria and Lebanon, where food prices have also spiked.
Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, one of Africa's leading climate activists and lead of Uganda's Fridays for Future movement, describes young Africa's green hopes.
Russian threats will not stop Finland joining Nato, a senior Finnish official has indicated, amid memories of its 'Winter War' with the Soviet Union.
For peace in Europe in the short term, Ukraine must win the war. But for peace in the long term, Germany must be contained and Russia must break apart.
Dutch MEP Mohammed Chahim is rapporteur forthe proposed carbon tax on imported goods which is planned to come into force in 2026. It is one of the biggest and most complex legislative proposals Europe has ever drawn up.
Robust oil and gas revenue enabled Russia to go on a military spending spree ahead of its Ukraine invasion, according to researchers in Sweden.
There are just two candidates left to choose from in French elections Sunday: Macron and Le Pen. But a third figure, Russia's Putin, also hangs in the air.
Details of how 'Bloody January' unfolded in Kazakhstan indicate Russia planned its intervention well in advance — and that puts Almaty in Putin's debt.
The sombre moment of Russia's invasion of Ukraine requires that China and the EU put aside their differences and strengthen their cooperation on the green transition — even if doing so is difficult.
Washington has signalled that any firms worldwide doing business with Russia could in future be cut off from US trade — the same way they were over Iran in the past.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the biggest blow to European security since the end of the Cold War. The EU's response must be commensurate with this challenge.
Ukraine is actually winning the war against Russia, and it's winning for the same reasons Azerbaijan won the Second Karabakh War with Armenia three years ago.
What some Africans now are bracing for is a carbon "shock", where EU tariffs would end up "suffocating some African economies," a senior advisor at the African Climate Foundation warns.
Reality or alarmist?: EUobserver talks to two leading experts who question the conventional assumption that climate change will drive millions of people to migrate to Europe.
Russia is already losing oil income due to the threat of a future EU embargo and there is no evidence of large-scale sanctions evasion, the EU Commission has said.
Women and even children in Ukraine are being raped by Russian soldiers — causing silent suffering that doesn't diminish with time gone by.
On natural gas especially, African leaders and Europeans do not see eye-to-eye. Simply put, the words "transition fuel" have a different meaning in Brussels and Addis Ababa.
In 2017, Poterie Renault fired its kilns for the final time, having struggled to make ends meet. Its closure is a drop in the ocean — but also illustrates how Europe fails to realise the economic potential of its heritage.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has raised fears over a possible rise in criminal threats in the European Union — including an increased risk of human trafficking and sexual abuse, cyberattacks, infiltration of criminals.
The EU's much-publicised Global Gateway connectivity initiative is not universally welcomed in Africa. Here's why.
A new trove of financial data released as part of the Pandora Paper showed how Russian billionaires shifted their money to tax havens just before or soon after Western sanctions.
Russia's war against Ukraine and, before that, Covid 19 risk derailing the EU's ambitious Green Deal. Instead, as Wester Van Gaal explains, both external shocks have supercharged the project — at least for now.
This magazine is about the world's collective and potentially transformational journey towards a green economy. It is also about taking the reader on what we hope is a fascinating "green voyage" across Europe, Africa and China.
