Jerusalem – As Europe aims to wean itself off Russian fossil fuel because of the Ukraine invasion, Israel hopes to help fill the gap with gas from its offshore reserves.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen took the top spots and will face off again in 13 days’ time to decide the next French President.
Conservative radio legend Michael Savage issued a direct appeal for peace to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday while condemning those on the left fighting to protect the borders, language and culture of Ukraine “while your own country is being overrun.”
The candidate for the establishment-right Républicains (Republicans) has urged voters to back the left-liberal Emmanuel Macron, not the national conservative Marine Le Pen, as exit polls indicate her own performance in the first round of France’s presidential elections was a dismal failure.
Climate laws are having a negative knock-on effect on farming as businesses outbid locals for land in hopes of generating carbon credits.
Nearly 4,500 underage migrants who applied for asylum in Austria last year have reportedly gone missing, prompting concerns some may have fallen victim to human traffickers.
The French ambassador to Poland was summoned on Friday by the Polish foreign minister after President Emmanuel Macron branded Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki a “far-right antisemite”.
The number of violent incidents in Belgian asylum reception centres has doubled since 2017, with half of the total incidents involving physical or verbal assaults on asylum centre workers or other asylum seekers.
The Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, has rejected a vaccine mandate for people over the age of 60, with the left-liberal coalition government’s proposal losing by over 80 votes.
PARIS (AP) – President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he has no fear of losing France’s presidential election despite far-right rival Marie Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s first-round vote.
BRUSSELS (AP) – European Council president Charles Michel says the bloc’s top diplomat has proposed adding an additional 500 million euros ($544 million) to Ukraine under the “European Peace Facility,” the fund which has been used for the first time during the war to deliver lethal weapons to a third country.
Family members of teacher Samuel Paty, who was murdered by a Chechen refugee in 2020, have filed a complaint against the French government for not doing enough to prevent his death.
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi has drawn ridicule for saying that people can either choose peace in Ukraine or their air conditioners.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger and two top European Union officials are in Kyiv looking to shore up the bloc’s support for war-torn Ukraine.
A survey released by a Brazilian-based firm this week has revealed that populist leader Marine Le Pen may be pulling ahead of President Emmanuel Macron as France votes in the first round of its presidential elections this weekend.
The Turkish government has claimed to have stopped over 1,7000 illegal immigrants from reaching Europe in the month of March.
The EU’s Green New Deal-style politics have made the bloc’s poor people even poorer while funding Russia’s war in Ukraine, an MEP has claimed.
As the EU considers new sanctions against Russia, the Hungarian government has stated that it will pay for Russian gas supplies in rubles.
The European Union is poised to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine.
Michel called on soldiers to disobey orders: “if you don’t want to be a criminal, drop your arms, stop fighting, leave the battlefield”.
The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union were set Wednesday to impose new punishing sanctions targeting Russia.
The European Union looks set to launch sanctions against Hungary after Viktor Orbán achieved a landslide victory in the country’s recent general election.
BERLIN (AP) – German lawmakers who proposed a requirement for all adults to be vaccinated against COVID-19 sought a compromise on Monday after struggling to win a majority in parliament, suggesting a less sweeping mandate that would initially oblige everyone aged 50 and above to get shots.
Poland’s national conservative prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecky, has publicly upbraided the French president, Emmanuel Macron, over his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, insisting they have achieved nothing.
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lithuania on Monday announced that it will expel Russia’s ambassador and recall its envoy in Moscow in reaction to increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
Hungary’s national conservative prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has won a fourth consecutive term of office, matching Germany’s Angela Merkel — despite the establishment left, far left, and even the far right teaming up to oust him at the ballot box.
BERLIN (AP) – A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.
Italian inflation rose to 6.7 per cent in March as the Russian invasion of Ukraine led to a surge in energy prices, marking the highest inflation the country has seen since July of 1991.
The German city of Cologne is considering dropping a depiction of its historic Christian cathedral from the city’s logo. Some have criticised the proposed change and called for residents to speak out against the city government.
French military intelligence chief General Eric Vidaud is to lose his job over the failure to predict Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, in a rare example of Western high officials facing real consequences for institutional failure.
The socialist government of Spain said that supermarkets will be allowed to ration as a part of its “Response Plan” to the war in Ukraine.
The left-wing party Labour Party has called for post-Brexit Britain to sign onto a security pact with the EU, citing the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s leading English-language state media outlet has traduced Germany’s political class, including Angela Merkel and the sitting Chancellor and President, as bearing “collective responsibility” for having “effectively encouraged” Russian aggression.
Germany is experiencing the highest level of inflation since the country was reunified in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
EU Interior Ministers have agreed to a ten-point plan to help settle the millions of Ukrainian refugees who have fled the Russian invasion.
The effort to reset the global economy with climate change as a central pillar is targeting everyday consumer products in the European Union.
The European Union (EU) said on Wednesday that it plans to deliver an ultimatum to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in a virtual summit on Friday that assisting the Russian invasion will be punished with sanctions.
The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday more than 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its war.
Denmark’s domestic security on Tuesday designated pandemic-linked “antigovernmental extremism” as a menace for the first time ever.
The Big Tech Masters of the Universe are facing renewed pushback as the European Union Council and European Parliament have reached a provisional political agreement on the Digital Markets Acts (DMA). The DMA will attempt to tame the anti-competitive power of tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook, which the act labels as “gatekeepers.”
