European Union legislators reached agreement on Thursday (16 November) on a new directive that will see jail sentences of up to 10 years for the worst polluters and companies fined up to 5% of their global turnover.
Kyiv says about 20,000 children have been removed to Russia or Russian-held territory without the consent of family or guardians, which it says amounts to a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide....
The initiative came after two reports by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) that revealed a trade in real-time bidding data on EU and US leaders and military personnel sent by Google and other firms to China and Russia....
Pro-Russian opposition parties, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Vazrazhdane, criticised the government’s security policy during the debate on the vote of no-confidence motion they filed against the government....
Since the announcement of the “de-risking” paradigm, the European Commission has presented multiple policies aiming to reduce the dependence on China, notably on critical raw materials and products needed for the energy transition, such as solar panels and wind turbines....
"On behalf of the Ministry of Culture, we make a promise, and I make it publicly here, that we will be the ones who will initiate, so that as soon as possible, Christ the King will be enthroned and become the King of Slovakia,” Štefan Kuffa, the new state secretary of the culture ministry in Slovakia, said....
With Germany under pressure to deliver on its climate commitments, the government is struggling to find the necessary public financing while staying within the bounds of the constitutionally enshrined “debt brake”, which sets strict limits on federal public debt levels.
The arrangement focuses on exchange in three domains: best practices, information sharing and capacity building.
Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
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"What worries me the most is that the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has endorsed the AWS European Sovereign Cloud,” French centrist MP Philippe Latombe says, explaining he fears that “the Germans start exerting pressure” against France’s highest cloud security certification, called SecNumCloud....
After a decree by Moldova’s Intelligence and Security Service that blocked 31 websites to be blocked immediately for “online content used in the war of information against the Republic Of Moldova”, adding to 22 blocked earlier this month, the new list included 14 Russian news sources, including prominent newspaper...
A Strategic Ligitation Against Public Participation (SLAPP) is an abusive lawsuits filed by entities or individuals with the aim of stopping a story or line of investigation by intimidating or draining the time and finances of the target, not necessarily with the goal of obtaining a court judgment in their favour.
