After a session of the EU Foreign Council in Brussels, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó remarked while speaking to journalists that the European Union should not make agreements with Africa about how to transfer their citizens to Europe, but about how they can stay in Africa. The minister stated that according to the Hungarian position, Europe should help African countries to create the right conditions for their people to stay in their homelands.
NATO provocations and EU sanctions have raised tensions in Europe to unprecedented levels in recent months amid media-fuelled claims by the US and its allies that Moscow is ‘preparing to invade’ its neighbour. Russia has dismissed the allegations and accused Washington and NATO of destabilising the situation in the Eastern European country.
The joint Russian-European Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been completed and prepared to start pumping gas from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. However, the dual pipeline system awaits in vain the approval of German and European regulators, who have threatened to put off certification until well into next year.
The price of natural gas in Europe on Tuesday rose to $1,400 per 1,000 cubic meters after Germany said Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline could not be greenlighted for launch, claiming rising tensions on the Ukrainian border.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know Tim Berners-Lee is a pretty important dude in the technology world. He’s the father of the Internet, responsible for the birth of the World Wide Web as we know it. And he hates what it has become. So, he’s taking some action to fix it.
One of the team that developed Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V vaccine has hit out at US pharma giant Pfizer’s warning that Covid-19 jabs may be required every three months to protect against the virus.
There has been a surge in gun violence in the EU that could ‘rapidly and drastically’ deteriorate the security situation, claims the first comprehensive report to have studied the black market of firearms and its impact.
This is not an anniversary to be celebrated. It is a bitter reminder of what happens when a massive mono-party seeks to dominate a whole people. It becomes a government based on ‘the one true’ ideology, featuring censorship, newspeak, informing on others, and outright repression.
A veteran actor is suing ABC for religious discrimination after he was fired from America’s longest-running soap opera for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
What’s next for hundreds of millions of hard-pressed Europeans if Belarus delivers on the threat to cut off gas transit to the EU in the event of further provocations by the Bloc’s unelected leadership?
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