The prestigious, energy and sustainability-focused global platform, World Future Energy Summit, hosted by Masdar as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, began Monday with five simultaneous thought leadership forums. The Solar & Clean Energy, (...)
The latest results from the Henley Passport Index show record-breaking levels of travel freedom for top-ranking nations Japan and Singapore, but also the widest recorded global mobility gap since the index's inception 17 years ago.
Without taking (...)
Tens of thousands of people took part in a protest in Vienna against a COVID-19 vaccine mandate and lockdown of those who have not received the jab.
Police said around 44,000 people joined in the march, which was in part called for by the right-wing (...)
For decades now Europe looked at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries as merely provider of energy to keep the industrial, economic and trade machines of Europe rolling, or as investors to boost European economies.
But recent developments (...)
Google has lost its appeal against a €2.42 billion antitrust fine imposed by the European Commission in relation to its shopping service.
The ruling was delivered by the European General Court (EGC), the lower tribunal of the Court of Justice of the (...)
It was 'Finance Day' at COP26, and the spotlight was on a big announcement: nearly 500 global financial services firms agreed on Wednesday to align $130 trillion – some 40 percent of the world's financial assets – with the climate goals set out in (...)
The European Parliament has decided to sue the European Commission after the executive's repeated refusal to activate a new conditionality mechanism that can freeze EU funds for member states suspected of breaching EU law.
The lawsuit was submitted (...)
European leaders paid tribute to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday at a summit in Brussels that is expected to be her last after 16 years in power.
The summit is Merkel's 107th as German Chancellor. Merkel is currently helming her country in (...)
EU leaders have asked Poland to abide by the same rules and legal principles as any of the other members of the European Union do.
The public rebukes, made in the lead-up to a European summit in Brussels, follow an extraordinary ruling by the Polish (...)
The row between Brussels and Warsaw over EU law primacy, which Ursula von der Leyen has described as a "direct challenge to the unity of the European legal order", is poised to take centerstage when leaders descend upon Brussels on Thursday for a (...)
Brussels and Warsaw brought their years-long dispute to the European Parliament on Tuesday in a tense session in front of MEPs.
Their relationship was plunged into crisis earlier this month when a Polish court ruled some of Poland's laws had primacy (...)
India was re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council for the 2022-24 term on Thursday with an overwhelming majority in the General Assembly, with New Delhi's envoy describing the election as a "robust endorsement" of the country's strong roots in (...)
According to a new global study of the difference in earnings between couples, women earn lower than their husbands, BBC reported.
The study examined publicly available data from 45 countries across a four-decade period - from 1973 to 2016 -- for (...)
A group of ten EU countries, led by France, have asked the European Commission to recognize nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source that should be part of the bloc's decades-long transition towards climate neutrality.
Tapping into Europe's (...)
Poland's constitutional court has ruled that some European Union laws clash with Poland's Constitution.
In a decision that has caused anger in Brussels and is likely to further damage Poland's troubled relationship with the 27-member bloc, the (...)
European Commission is "close to breaking the rule of law" with its efforts to ensure member states comply with the bloc's fundamental values, says Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Janša.
In a lengthy interview with Euronews, Janša denounced the (...)
French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Tuesday called on Brussels to get tougher on London over fishing rights for French fishermen.
Speaking in Parliament, Castex said he had "seized" the presidency of the European Commission over the ongoing fishing (...)
As the UAE opens its doors to the world for the start of Expo 2020, the world's ultimate real-time tool on global mobility, the Passport Index, has revealed a 14.8 percent increase in the World Openness Score (WOS) at the start of Q4, since the (...)
The Red Sea Souk, an initiative designed to discover and connect Arab and African filmmakers from the region, will host its first edition this Dec. 8–11, 2021 as part of the Red Sea International Film Festival. It will comprise a Project Market, (...)
Europe is battling a record-breaking surge in energy prices that threatens to derail the post-pandemic economic recovery, strain household incomes and even tarnish the nascent green transition.
A series of market, geographic and political factors (...)
The European Commission has missed a deadline to trigger a new mechanism to make receiving EU funds conditional on a country's respect for the bloc's core values.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) imposed the two-month ultimatum in June in a (...)
Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of natural disasters with the highest human losses in the past 50 years, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The (...)
At least 54 people have died due to severe flooding in Western Europe, caused by what experts described as the heaviest rainfall in a century.
Up to 70 people are missing in Germany after flash floods swept across western and southern parts of the (...)
Torrential rain and flooding have left more than 100 people dead and hundreds missing in western Europe, with Germany bearing the brunt of the worst natural disaster in living memory.
At least 50 people have died in Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has expressed its solidarity with Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg over the deadly floods that have caused devastation in some areas of western Europe.
In a statement on Friday, the Saudi foreign ministry (...)
