The latest interruptions of Russian gas flows to Europe have reignited debates on fertiliser import tariffs, but farmers and industry remain divided over whether tariff suspensions should include all mineral fertilisers.
With the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth on Thursday (8 September), Prince Charles has finally become king of the United Kingdom and 14 other realms, ending a wait of more than 70 years – the longest by an heir in British history.
There is “cognitive dissonance” between national governments facing public pressure to tackle rising energy bills and the slow reaction from the European Commission, which is not directly accountable to the electorate, the energy advisor of an EU country told EURACTIV.
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is looking at a chance to regain an upper hand in the European Council in Sunday’s Swedish elections, where its majority may depend on cooperation with the “normalised” far-right Swedish Democrats.
Sweden heads to the polls on September 11 in an election that could see a once-shunned far-right populist party make significant inroads, and with the help of right-wing opposition parties, even dislodge the ruling left-wing Social Democrats from power.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appealed for more global support for Pakistan as two months of rainfall has inundated large swaths of the country.
Virtually all of Germany knows what CDU chairman Friedrich Merz did in early July.
Companies in the Group of Seven (G7) economies are failing to meet Paris Climate Agreement objectives, non-profit disclosure platform CDP and global management consultancy Oliver Wyman says.
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, died on Thursday.
At the COP26 climate conference last year in Glasgow, Scotland, Prince Charles warned world leaders that they must adopt a “war-like footing” to deal with the global threat of climate change and biodiversity loss.