Erdoğan repeats threat against Greece during G20
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used his G20 tribune to repeat thinly veiled threats against Greece on Wednesday, telling reporters Turkey “can comme suddenly one night” and that its neighbor...
View ArticleBulgaria, Croatia and Romania ‘ready’ for visa-free travel zone, European...
Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania “are ready to join” Europe’s visa-free travel area, European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said Wednesday. The countries — all EU members — have “strongly...
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How to help energy utilities finance the energy transition?
The current energy crisis is forcing governments to address the issue of high prices while many companies struggle with rising operational costs and market volatility. Accelerated investments in green...
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Europe: FTX-style crypto crash won’t happen here
The cryptocurrency world is reeling after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX — but EU policymakers are patting themselves on the back. FTX was the world’s third-largest exchange where people could...
View ArticleEU asylum requests hit highest monthly level since 2016
More than 77,500 first-time asylum applicants asked for international protection in the EU in August, the latest monthly asylum data from Eurostat showed Friday. That was 11,000 more than in the...
View ArticleLuxembourg’s Pierre Gramegna to lead eurozone bailout fund
Eurozone finance ministers on Friday elected Pierre Gramegna, a former finance minister of Luxembourg, to lead the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The election caps a race to replace Klaus Regling...
View ArticleLast ditch EU talks over Russian oil price cap
EU countries resumed last-ditch talks on Monday to secure agreement on a price cap for Russian oil, with deep splits among them on where such a level should be set to inflict maximum pain on Russia...
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The EU is privatizing its migrant rescue work — by default
The EU has outsourced a big chunk of its migration policy to a fleet of privately run boats searching the Mediterranean waters for asylum seekers in crisis. In recent weeks, these boats — run by a...
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License to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder
License to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder For rogue states, solving a problem by removing it often proves irresistible. By Matthew Karnitschnig Illustration by Joan Wong...
View ArticleTurkey issues new threat against Greece over Aegean islands
ATHENS — Turkey warned Greece to back off and stop militarizing the Aegean islands, otherwise Ankara “will take the necessary steps on the ground.” “Either Greece takes a step back and abides by the...
View ArticleErdoğan warns Greece that Turkish missiles can reach Athens
ATHENS — Turkey warned Greece that a missile could hit the Greek capital unless “you stay calm,” further escalating its rhetoric against Greece. “Now we have started to make our own missiles,” Turkish...
View ArticleEU and NATO near long-delayed joint pledge to back Ukraine
After months of delays, the EU and NATO are expected to soon formally issue a joint call for Russia to stop its war and leave Ukraine, and to pledge full support to Kyiv. The declaration, a draft of...
View ArticleTurkey renews threat of war over Greek territorial sea dispute
ATHENS — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Thursday threatened Greece with retaliation if Athens proceeded with any expansion of its territorial waters in the Aegean, saying that it would...
View ArticleIrregular crossings at EU borders highest since 2016, Frontex report shows
Around 330,000 irregular crossings were recorded at the bloc’s external borders in 2022, according to early estimates published Friday by Frontex, the European Union’s border agency. This is the...
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Pro-secrecy ruling opens floodgates to dark money
Julia Wallace is the deputy editor in chief of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Ilya Lozovsky is a senior editor and staff writer at OCCRP. High in the Austrian Alps sits...
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Europe is running out of medicines
When you’re feeling under the weather, the last thing you want to do is trek from pharmacy to pharmacy searching for basic medicines like cough syrup and antibiotics. Yet many people across Europe —...
View ArticleSave the wolf, EU environment ministers urge Brussels
EU environment ministers are howling that the European Commission should do more to protect wolves. Twelve of the bloc’s environment ministers reacted to a European Parliament resolution that called...
View ArticleCyprus presidential election heads for runoff next Sunday
NICOSIA — Former Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides led the first round of voting for the country’s presidency on Sunday and faces a runoff next week against second-place finisher Andreas...
View ArticleThe delayed impact of the EU’s wartime sanctions on Russia
The EU was quick to hit Russia with sanctions after Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine — but it took time and an escalation of measures before Moscow started to feel any real damage....
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Thousands killed, injured in Turkey and Syria by strong earthquakes
Around 2,500 people have been confirmed killed and thousands injured in a series of powerful earthquakes that struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday. The death toll from the Kahramanmaras...
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