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Czech capacities to host Ukrainian refugees have run out

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:57
The Czech Republic can no longer offer accommodation to Ukrainian refugees as the state’s capacities are now exhausted. To remedy the situation, the Czech Republic has applied for 25 modular humanitarian bases that could accommodate up to 50,000 people via...
Categories: European Union

Opposition MPs reject bill giving officials impunity when helping refugees

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:54
Opposition party MPs have spoken out against the new law regulating residency status for Ukrainian refugees that fled to Poland following the Russian invasion, particularly the provisions giving impunity to officials when people’s lives are at stake. President Andrzej Duda on...
Categories: European Union

Portugal to open platform for temporary protection of Ukrainian refugees

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:52
The Portuguese immigration and borders service SEF is launching an online platform in three different languages on Monday for requests for temporary protection from Ukrainian residents, it announced on Sunday. The ‘SEFforUkraine.sef.pt’ platform “enables all Ukrainian citizens and their households,...
Categories: European Union

Lisbon centre for Ukrainians has welcomed almost 400 refugees

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:51
The Temporary Reception Centre for Ukrainian refugees in Lisbon received 394 people in its first week of operation, including 116 children aged up to 16 years, Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas said on Sunday. At the end of a meeting to...
Categories: European Union

Spain’s PM announces tax relief measures to mitigate Ukraine war impact

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:50
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a package of tax relief measures focused on alleviating the impact of the war in Ukraine on the economy on Sunday. Sánchez announced in a meeting with the presidents of the 17 Spanish regions...
Categories: European Union

Madrid demonstration calls for ‘no-fly zone’ over Ukraine

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:50
A total of 5,000 people demonstrated in Madrid asking the EU and the US to enforce a “no-fly zone” in Ukraine to help the Eastern country repel the Russian invasion on Sunday, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported. While this action was...
Categories: European Union

More Ukraine-Russia talks scheduled after deadly attack on base near Polish border

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:49
Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine were stepping up on Monday, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk after both sides cited progress, even after Russia attacked a base near the Polish border and fighting raged elsewhere.
Categories: European Union

Bus carrying Ukrainian refugees overturned in Italy

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:49
A bus carrying 20 Ukrainians overturned in North-Eastern Italy on Sunday morning while making its way to Pescara in the Abruzzi Region, leaving one person dead and several injured, firefighters said. The accident occurred at around 6:45 am on the...
Categories: European Union

Russia threatens Sweden and Finland over NATO membership, again

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:38
A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry has issued another warning to both Sweden and Finland warning them not to join NATO. Russia repeated its threat of retaliation on Saturday (12 March) if Sweden and Finland ever decide to join...
Categories: European Union

Irish military neutrality to be redefined, says foreign minister

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:37
Ireland’s traditional military neutrality will need to be redefined, but a referendum on it is not currently on the government’s radar, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said. If Ireland wishes to remain a neutral country, the foreign minister added that...
Categories: European Union

Open up your home to Ukrainian refugees government urges

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:36
People in the UK will be offered £350 a month to open their homes to Ukrainian refugees as part of the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme. The programme will allow Britons to sponsor a refugee or family to live in...
Categories: European Union

Dutch municipal elections to cater to English-speaking voters

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:35
Political parties are offering information and election debates in English for residents who do not speak Dutch but are eligible to vote in the municipal elections starting on Monday. Every four years, the Netherlands holds elections to vote for their...
Categories: European Union

‘Efforts to stage support in Ukraine for ‘the Russian world’ are failing miserably’

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:35
The Russian aggressors try to stage support for joining “the Russian world” in occupied areas, but apart from their propagandists pretending to be local citizens, nobody supports their manifestations, writes Roman Rukomeda.
Categories: European Union

French faced with soaring fuel prices to soon receive rebate

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:35
All French citizens who use petrol will be reimbursed 15 cents per litre as of 1 April, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Saturday to the newspaper Le Parisien in response to the surge in fuel prices exacerbated by the current...
Categories: European Union

Bulgaria to fastrack plans to build a new nuclear reactor

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:31
The Bulgarian government will try to build at least one nuclear reactor at the functioning Kozloduy nuclear power plant on the banks of the Danube. “The Ministry of Energy has started a study for the rapid construction of another nuclear...
Categories: European Union

Soviet war memorials take a hit across central and eastern Europe

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:30
Several cases of vandalism towards Soviet war memorials have been reported in central and eastern Europe as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Russian embassies were outraged, national authorities were more understanding of perpetrators. In some cases,...
Categories: European Union

Finnish minister: EU consumers to pay ‘Putin’s prices’

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:29
The war in Ukraine may lead to increased food prices and possible supply shortages in Finland and across Europe, Economic Minister Mika Lintilä has said. In a TV interview on 12 March, Lintilä warned consumers of “Putin’s prices”. According to...
Categories: European Union

Austrian Chancellor says EU army not going to happen

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:28
An EU army will not happen in the foreseeable future, said Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer following Friday’s summit of EU leaders in Versailles. “The EU army is not an agenda item,” Nehammer told Austrian newspaper Der Standard. Following the Russian invasion...
Categories: European Union

US warns China against ‘backfilling’ sanction-hit Russia

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 06:24
Russia said on Sunday (13 March) that it was counting on China to help it withstand the blow to its economy from Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, but the United States warned Beijing not to provide that lifeline.
Categories: European Union

‘Invisible’ soy linked to deforestation hides in animal products, report shows

Mon, 03/14/2022 - 05:56
Despite relatively low immediate consumption, European citizens assume a high quantity of soy indirectly mostly because of its use as animal feed, a report commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found.
Categories: European Union

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