Carbon Border and Western Balkans – Barrier or Bridge to EU?
That’s it, finally: the CBAM – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism of the EU is established. The goal: not to import CO2 “for free” when...
Hezbollah and the Reluctance for a Wider War: Cui Bono?
Brussels (4/11 – 25) It’s an old story, a broken record: war crimes in the Middle East, encouraged and stoked by outsiders with their...
A Tit-for-Tat with Uncle Sam: China Puts the Screws on Exotic Mineral Exports
Brussel, Frankfurt (16/11 – 23) A levying of embargoes and export bans, the imposition of sanctions, erection of fearsome “license” (= restriction) protocol: there’s...
President Wickremesinghe Delivers IMF Deal for Sri Lanka
Copenhagen (13/11 – 37.5) When Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as Sri Lanka’s president in July after a popular uprising ousted his predecessor, the South...
Denmark Woman Charged With Double Murder
PARIS — A Denmark woman was charged Friday with murder in the November stabbing deaths of her boyfriend and grandmother. An Oxford County grand...
Russia Warns of a ‘Crisis’ at Arctic Border With Finland
Russia said Wednesday a humanitarian emergency was unfolding at one of its checkpoints on the Arctic border with Finland, where it said hundreds of...
Tesla’s Trash Won’t Get Picked Up as Union Actions in Sweden Escalate
Tesla will have to skip trash day in Sweden as the country’s labor groups continue to protest the company’s anti-union policies. Reuters reports the country’s Transport Workers’...
Sweden’s Men’s Soccer Team is Slumping. Hope Might Come With a New Coach and Another Ibrahimovic
As Janne Andersson signed off Wednesday as Sweden coach, he assessed what his future might hold after spending the last seven years in what...
Zelenskyy Thanks Nordic Countries for Their ‘Real Support’ to Ukraine in Russia’s War
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday thanked Nordic countries for their “real support” to his country in its war with Russia. “Today, I want...
NATO Mulls Sending More Troops to Western Balkans Amid Violence
NATO’s secretary general said Monday that the alliance is reviewing a permanent increase of NATO peacekeepers to Kosovo and Bosnia at a time of...