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The European Parliament in Strasbourg.
If EU wants to save power it should cut monthly Strasbourg move, says MEP
BRUSSELS — Whether it’s to reduce reliance on Russian imports or making savings ahead of winter, cutting energy consumption is a hot topic across Europe right now.In Brussels, key institutions including the European Parliament have pledged to reduce heating to help conserve power.But one MEP says amid the energy crisis, the EU should scrap the practice of regularly moving parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg.“I find it completely unjustified that the European Parliament heats and lights two places and that we continue to travel between the two seats,” German Greens MEP Daniel Freund told Euronews.“I think that for the time of the energy crisis we should stay here in Brussels.”According to the EU treaties, Strasbourg is the seat of the Parliament’s plenary sessions,...
October 18, 2022

If EU wants to save power it should cut monthly Strasbourg move, says MEP

A Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber crashes into a building in Yeysk, Russia, Monday. — courtesy Meduza
13 die as Russian warplane crashes into apartment building in port city of Yeysk
KIEV — Thirteen people were killed after a Russian warplane crashed into a nine-story apartment building and ignited a massive blaze that engulfed several floors.The Su-34 bomber came down in the Russian port city of Yeysk on Monday evening after suffering engine failure. The Sea of Azov separates Yeysk and Russian-occupied territory in southeast Ukraine.After hours of combing through the charred debris of the building, authorities said 13 residents, including three children, were found dead. Another 19 were hospitalized with injuries.Vice governor of the region Anna Menkova said three of the victims died when they jumped from the upper floors of the building in a desperate attempt to escape the flames, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency.The bomber came down after one of its...
October 18, 2022

13 die as Russian warplane crashes into apartment building in port city of Yeysk

Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss during an interview in London recently. — courtesy photo
Truss admits budget mistakes and apologizes after Hunt announces mini-budget U-turn
LONDON — The UK’s prime minister apologized as she admitted her government had made mistakes over the mini-budget last month that spooked the financial markets.Liz Truss was speaking after new finance minister Jeremy Hunt ripped up her economic plans.He dramatically reversed most of the tax cuts and spending proposals that his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng announced less than a month ago.“Now I recognize we have made mistakes,” Truss, who has only been in office a little more than a month, told the BBC.“I’m sorry for those mistakes, but I fixed the mistakes. I’ve appointed a new chancellor. We have restored economic stability and fiscal discipline.”Hunt’s swift U-turn on Truss’ mini-budget has undermined the PM’s authority and some have questioned how much longer she can...
October 18, 2022

Truss admits budget mistakes and apologizes after Hunt announces mini-budget U-turn

This aerial view shows the Avri solar park along the highway 'A15' in Geldermalsen. With 34,000 solar panels, the park is the largest in Gelderland, Netherlands. — courtesy SEM VAN DER WAL / ANP / AFP
Four EU countries aiming for 100 percent clean power by 2030
AMSTERDAM — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown the dangers of Europe’s reliance on imported fossil fuels. Decarbonization targets and the shift to renewable power have sped up in some EU countries as they look to reduce their reliance in response to the war.The bloc as a whole is hoping now to reach 82 percent clean energy by 2030. But a handful of EU nations are accelerating fossil fuel phase-outs, looking to reach 100 percent clean power by the end of the decade, according to energy think tank Ember’s EU power targets tracker.PortugalIn April, Portugal announced that it was accelerating its energy transition, aiming to increase the proportion of power produced by renewables in the country to 80 percent by 2026 — four years earlier than previously planned. It already gets 60...
October 17, 2022

Four EU countries aiming for 100 percent clean power by 2030

Tomio Okamura, the leader of the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD), at a rally in Prague.
Czech voters turn to the far-right for answers to the energy crisis
PRAGUE — The Czech Republic is facing one of the highest annual inflation rates in the European Union, with a 17 percent increase in the cost of living, caused by the crisis with Moscow.It has revealed the country’s heavy reliance on Russian gas, as prices soar and consumers struggle to pay their bills.Growing poverty has fed into discontent among Czech voters, who are looking to the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) for answers.Euronews reporter Bryan Carter visited Prague to meet some of the people suffering as a result of the rising cost of living.Viera Dobrocka, an unemployed mother of a nine-month-old baby, was left with no option other than to move into social housing for single mothers after high food and energy costs meant she could no longer pay her...
October 17, 2022

Czech voters turn to the far-right for answers to the energy crisis

An Afghan covered with a blanket, speaks with other migrants at an old school used as a temporary shelter on the island of Kythira, southern Greece. — courtesy photo
UN 'distressed' after Greece finds scores of 'naked and bruised' migrants on Turkish border
ATHENS — The United Nations says it is "deeply distressed" after the Greek government said on Sunday that 92 migrants were found almost naked and bruised after allegedly being forced across the Evros river from Turkey into Greece."We condemn such cruel and degrading treatment and call for a full investigation into this incident," the UNHCR said in a tweet.EU border agency Frontex confirmed to AFP the arrival of the group in circumstances that the Greek Ministry for Civil Protection said sent out an "inhuman image"."The Frontex officers reported that the migrants were found almost naked and some of them with visible injuries," said Paulina Bakula, spokeswoman for the organization.Bakula, speaking from Frontex's Warsaw HQ, said Frontex officers...
October 17, 2022

UN 'distressed' after Greece finds scores of 'naked and bruised' migrants on Turkish border

File photo of Sweden's new Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
Sweden's new right-wing government set to act on immigration, environment
STOCKHOLM — Sweden's new Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was confirmed in a parliament vote on Monday 176-173, with MPs voting strictly along left-right party lines.Kristersson leads a formal three-party coalition with his Moderates joined by the Christian Democrats and Liberals.But it's the far-right Sweden Democrats, the biggest of the four parties in terms of MPs, who will be a not-so-silent partner: technically outside the government, but holding the reigns of power in practice.The new government has released its 62-page policy agenda, so what have we learned about the direction Sweden will take?The whole relationship between the three parties which form the coalition government, and their partners, the Sweden Democrats, is underpinned by the agreement they've all...
October 17, 2022

Sweden's new right-wing government set to act on immigration, environment

Tanks at the port city of Mykolaiv were set on fire by Russian drone attacks, according to the city's mayor. — courtesy Telegram
Kiev attacked by 'kamikaze drones', say officials
KIEV — Russia has hit Ukraine with a wave of attacks, including Iranian-made "kamikaze" drones on the capital, Kiev.The strikes hit critical infrastructure in three regions, cutting off electricity in hundreds of villages across the country, according to Prime Minister Denys Shmygal.At least seven people have died so far — four in Sumy and three in Kiev.A week ago, the capital was hit by Russian missiles at rush hour, part of nationwide attacks which left 19 dead.Shmygal said the new strikes had hit regions of Kiev, Dnipro and Sumy.Russia said it had hit "all designated targets", confirming that Ukraine's "military command facilities and energy system" had been targets.Four people were killed when an energy-generating facility was hit in Sumy,...
October 17, 2022

Kiev attacked by 'kamikaze drones', say officials

British Prime Minister Liz Truss during her first PMQ in the parliament.
Liz Truss's government is living hour by hour
LONDON — The Liz Truss program for government is dead. This is a hand-to-mouth government, living hour by hour.If you pick up the hint of panic in the air, you're not the only one. Make that a stench. Anything apparently solid quickly becomes air.Now, nearly every element of her prospectus has just been shredded by her new chancellor.The statement that has just been delivered is the second yanking forward of an important economic moment for the country. Originally it was in the diary for November. Then Halloween. Now we've had it today."We will reverse almost all the tax measures" from the mini-budget, Jeremy Hunt said. What an extraordinary thing to hear.Diaries are going out of fashion at Westminster but to be clear, there still will be a statement in a...
October 17, 2022

Liz Truss's government is living hour by hour

Jeremy Hunt... hard decisions ahead
Truss still in charge despite U-turns, says Hunt
LONDON — Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has insisted Liz Truss is still in charge of the government, after a series of U-turns left her premiership in jeopardy.Some Tory backbenchers have been talking privately about how to remove the PM, after market turmoil led her to abandon her flagship tax policies.Hunt urged the party to unite behind her, as the pair held crunch talks to thrash out plans on tax and spending. But a senior Tory MP said “the game is up” and called for Truss to go.Hunt replaced Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday, after the former chancellor was fired following financial turbulence in the wake of last month’s mini-budget and a backlash from a number of MPs in his party.In a bid to restore market confidence, Truss has junked key parts of the tax-cutting blueprint that was unveiled...
October 16, 2022

Truss still in charge despite U-turns, says Hunt

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