Germany will take emergency measures to ensure security of supply in the face of reduced deliveries of Russian gas, including strengthening the use of coal-fired plants for electricity production, the government announced a few days ago. "To reduce gas consumption, less must be used for electricity production. Alternatively,...
The European Union (EU) will be investigating a Russian recruitment and disinformation platform as Portugal is going to gear up on the idea of the UK and leave the European bloc. "UK is not a special case as Brussels would like to think. Italy, Spain, Portugal and possibly even France are in line to leave...
Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck on Sunday called for the strengthening of economic sanctions against Russia following a "terrible war crime" that occurred in Boutcha, Ukraine. On Saturday, several dead bodies were discovered in Boutcha, a town northwest of Kiev, which was, recently, recovered from the Russians. "This terrible crime of...
Germany on Wednesday rejected the possibility of providing combat aircraft to Ukraine and in return receive the aircraft from the United States of America. According to the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, "is not, in any way, among the possibilities, the supply of combat aircraft. The German official was speaking at a press conference in Berlin,...
Germany will allow all Ukrainian refugees from Poland to travel free of charge on long-distance trains starting this Sunday, the state-owned Deutsche Bahn announced, quoted by Lusa. "In cooperation with the Polish railways, Deutsche Bahn is preparing to put extra carriages and special trains on the tracks (...) if the...
Germany will allocate an extraordinary 100,000 million euros to equip its armed forces and will make an annual investment of more than 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Defense, the German Chancellor announced today. At an extraordinary session to review the situation in Ukraine following the Russian invasion, Olaf Scholz stressed...
Inhambane province is one of the focal regions for German development cooperation in Mozambique. Only in recent years were implemented by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the German Development Bank (KFW), German cooperation projects estimated at 70 million euros, reads a statement from the German embassy sent to our newsroom....
Ireland, Austria, Germany and Denmark this Friday put forward new measures to stop the spread of the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus. Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin announced the introduction of an 8:00 p.m. curfew for pubs, bars and restaurants by the end of January to combat Omicron, which is considered to be a...
For now Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom are banning travelers from southern Africa from entering their territories because of the new Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa, but the number of countries following suit could increase... The new variant, called B.11529, discovered in South Africa, whose main...
Thirty countries and six automakers have signed an "alliance" to end sales of fuel-powered cars as of 2035 in the world's most important markets. The agreement comes on the sidelines of the UN summit on climate that is taking place in Glasgow and includes six major manufacturers, namely: Ford, General Motors,...