🚸Worldwide, about 800 million children live below the #poverty line of US$3.20 a day, according to @unicef. In #Luxembourg, one in four #children live below the poverty line, which is defined at the EU level as 60% of the median income. It’s one of the highest in the #EU.
🎙️Listen to the new SciLux episode for an inspiring discussion on #childpoverty with our two guests: Prof. Olivier De Schutter & Dr Anne-Catherine Guio.
The #EU is in the midst of a massive build-out of its electricity grid network. But a roadblock is rearing its head, Europe is facing a transformer shortage said Savanna #Altvater, in charge of power distribution at the EU.
Transformers’ critical importance to power systems is being made painfully clear in #Ukraine, where #Russia is targeting these devices incessantly. Europe has sent 2,700 replacement transformers to Ukraine, further tightening the bloc’s shortage.
#Ukraine has resumed its own production of artillery ammunition, but given the vast needs of its Defense Forces, and the scale and intensity of the war, the country still relies on ammunition supplies from partner countries, as stated by Oleksandr #Kamyshin, the Minister for Strategic Industries
#EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry #Breton slapped down a last-ditch German effort to suspend the #IRIS2 satellite communications network — a European rival to #Elon#Musk's #Starlink system.
#Germany's Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck, who also serves as economy and climate minister, wants to delay the launch due to worries over what he called an “exorbitant” price tag.
Who is #Xi Jinping’s travel agent? If you are making your first trip to #Europe in nearly five years, an itinerary that reads #France, #Serbia, #Hungary seems a little eccentric.
But the three stops chosen by #China’s leader make perfect sense viewed from #Beijing. For strategic and economic reasons, China badly wants to disrupt the unity of both #Nato and the #EU.
The Russian leader is militarizing his society and infusing it with patriotic fervor, reshaping the education system, condemning scientists as traitors, promoting a new #Orthodox religiosity and retrograde roles for women, and conditioning a new generation of youth to view the West as a mortal enemy in a fight for Russia’s very survival.
The #US and most #EU nations will boycott a #Kremlin ceremony to swear in Vladimir #Putin for a new six-year term as president on Tuesday, but #France and some other EU states were expected to send an envoy despite a plea by #Kyiv.
The varying diplomatic response by the Western powers underscored differences over how to handle the Russian leader more than two years after he launched a full-scale invasion of #Ukraine.
The statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry about the possibility of strikes against Britain is the first public statement by the Russian Federation threatening strikes directly against a Western country. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Putin#EU#NATO
The European Union has started work on establishing the new Defense Innovation office in Kyiv, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on May 6 at the EU-Ukraine Defense Industries Forum.
Kadri Simson also said the EU is preparing for a sudden end to the Russian gas supply when the transit contract between Ukraine and Moscow expires at the end of this year.
Xi Jinping arrives in France with Ukraine and EU trade row at top of agenda (www.theguardian.com)
On his first visit to Europe since 2019, Xi is set to meet with Emmanuel Macron before heading to Serbia and Hungary
EU Commissioner: EU begins work on new Defense Innovation office in Kyiv (kyivindependent.com)
The European Union has started work on establishing the new Defense Innovation office in Kyiv, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on May 6 at the EU-Ukraine Defense Industries Forum.
Commissioner: EU's next package of Russia sanctions to target LNG imports (kyivindependent.com)
Kadri Simson also said the EU is preparing for a sudden end to the Russian gas supply when the transit contract between Ukraine and Moscow expires at the end of this year.