Rapid Coal Phase-Out in the Western Balkans is Far From Impossible
Starting next year, a substantial number of lignite power plants in the Western Balkans will breach compliance with the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive....
Norway Makes Surprise Rate Hike
Norway’s central bank surprised markets by raising its key policy rate Thursday, saying that a final hike in the current cycle was needed to...
Inside the US Army’s Failed Nuclear Ice Lair in Cold War Greenland
As Soviet ICBM tests and the launch of Sputnik in the 1950s added intensity to the Cold War, the United States turned its attention...
Russia Enters Christmas With Rocket Splash-Down Next to Norway’s Vardø Radar
“Tempo danger area” reads the Notice to Airman (NOTAM) issued by Russia for a nearly 90 km north-south stretch in the outer Varanger fjord...
Netanyahu Vows Israel Will Dismantle Hamas After 3 Hostages Mistakenly Killed
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a TV news conference Saturday that the accidental killings of the three Israeli hostages by Israeli troops Friday...
Four Arrested in Denmark, Netherlands On Suspicion of Planning Terror Attacks
Flemming Drejer, operative head of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, known by its acronym PET, said that Denmark was not changing the terror threat level,...
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...
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...
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...