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Teresa Ribera named to lead Spanish socialists’ list for EU elections
Spain's Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera today was named as the top candidate for the ruling socialist party's list for the EU elections in June.The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) will put its proposal to a vote on Saturday, after whi...
5 months ago
Contaminated food and resurrected bacteria: EU agency sounds alarm over health risks of warming waters
Serious food poisoning from contaminated fish, drug-resistant bacteria emerging from melting permafrost and reindeer populations decimated by anthrax — these are just some of the looming threats to Europe as the Continent's waters warm, the European Envir...
4 months ago
Right-wing MEPs loathe the Green Deal — but have no plan of attack
BRUSSELS — Lawmakers on the EU’s right flank can easily agree: They all hate the Green Deal.It’s how to channel that hatred that is proving hard. Even as green skeptics are set to arrive in the European Parliament in record numbers, there’s no discernible...
2 months ago
Russia unleashes ‘massive attack’ on Ukraine energy facilities
Ukrainian energy facilities came under a “massive attack" from Russia overnight, the Ukraine energy ministry said on Saturday, describing it as the eighth time Russia has launched an assault on energy infrastructure in the past three months.“The situation...
2 months ago
Habeck blames China’s Russia support for worsening Berlin-Beijing relations
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on Saturday pointed to China’s support for Russia in the war against Ukraine as the main reason for deteriorating economic relations between Berlin and Beijing, as he reiterated warnings about the economic consequences...
2 months ago
China, EU agree to start consultations on electric-vehicle subsidies
China and the EU on Saturday agreed to start consultations over the EU’s anti-subsidy investigation against Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).“On June 22, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and Executive Vice President and Trade Commissioner of the European C...
2 months ago
EU environment commissioner to face tough crowd in Parliament
Sweden's reputation is preceding its European commissioner — and not in a good way.Newly charged with the leading the EU's environment portfolio, Jessika Roswall, from Sweden’s governing conservative Moderate Party, is no stranger to Brussels, having serv...
3 weeks ago
Norway: Oil producers cannot be allowed to derail plastic treaty
Norway, the European Union and other countries across Africa, the Pacific Islands and South America say they won't stand for oil-rich countries frustrating efforts to reach a global treaty to fight plastic pollution — and plan to heap pressure on these “v...
2 weeks ago
Hydrogen’s toxic secret worries a town in northern France
This summer, residents of the northern French town of Villers-Saint-Paul received a disturbing warning: Don't eat your chickens' eggs.Tests had revealed that local eggs contained a cocktail of potentially dangerous PFAS, or "forever chemicals," a group of...
1 week ago
Europe’s rivers are sick and governments are failing to fix them
Europe faces a water crisis of its own making, and EU countries aren't doing enough to avert it — that's the central message from a major new report on the state of Europe's water from the European Environmental Agency.The report, published Tuesday, paint...
21 hours ago