TAG: Borders
Europe’s farmer protests are spreading. Here’s where and why
The farmer protests sweeping the European Union may have taken political leaders by surprise. But th...
8 months ago
Houthis vow to continue Red Sea attacks despite US-led strikes
Western airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen overnight won't stop its fighters from harassin...
8 months ago
Middle East braces for chaos as Iran and West square up
Western warplanes and guided missiles roared through the skies over Yemen in the early hours of Frid...
8 months ago
The Gaza war is escalating. How bad will the Middle East crisis get?
On October 7, Hamas fighters launched a bloody attack against Israel, using paragliders, speedboats...
8 months ago
Bulgarian PM hints country may miss eurozone entry date
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on Saturday said his country may fumble the January 1, 2025,...
8 months ago
The EU has a €30 billion hidden fees problem
Last year, European consumers and businesses lost €30 billion to hidden fees when sending and spending money internationally. And it is only getting worse, in 2019 it was €22 billion. But there is an easy way to crack down on these hidden charges: taking...
6 months ago
The gold treasure of National Bank of Romania that was sent to Moscow
The troubled story of the evacuation of the National Bank of Romania treasure to Moscow began during the First World War. Romania entered the war in August 1916, joining the ‘entente’ of France, United Kingdom and Russia. After the initial victories, Roma...
6 months ago
Revealed — the next Brexit headache on the Irish border
LONDON — In 2019, Boris Johnson promised his Brexit deal would do away with checks on the Northern Irish border. Five years later, the region is about to be whacked with yet another trade headache.The latest tension comes from net zero rules, with the U.K...
6 months ago
Moldova eyes energy lever to topple Kremlin puppet regime in Transnistria
CHIȘINĂU — For the first time in three decades, Moldova thinks it finally has the leverage to kick Russia out of the country. But it comes with a quandary: how to do that without unleashing a humanitarian crisis on its own citizens.Since gaining independe...
5 months ago
When the water runs dry: Why France is freaking out over a tiny Swiss dam
GENEVA — At the western edge of Lake Geneva, where the mighty Rhône river squeezes through a narrow dam, a blunder of French diplomacy is carved into stone for all to see. The inscription, mounted on the walls of an old industrial building, commemorates t...
4 months ago
‘Blood minerals’: EU accused of fueling conflict with Rwanda deal
Europe’s hunger for minerals for its electric cars and microchips is sparking accusations that it is inflaming conflict in eastern Congo, one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises that has killed 6 million people over recent decades.The outrage was pro...
2 months ago
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
LONDON — Early last year, U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer’s top green lieutenant traveled to Berlin. He was there to take notes on a German government full of climate vim. Starmer’s man Ed Miliband — then in opposition, now the U.K. energy secretary — enc...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
US unveils $1.5B in new energy, humanitarian aid for Ukraine
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Saturday a new $1.5 billion aid package for Ukraine, focused primarily on the war-torn country's energy sector and humanitarian assistance.Harris unveiled the package while attending a two-day Ukraine peace s...
2 months ago