Category: 3. Europe

In 2024, 409 ships were scrapped through this official market, though calling it “official” makes it sound clean and safe, which, for the most part, it isn’t. A few of the ships scrapped last year were disassembled in countries like Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, which follow…

“We will continue to lend a hand to the European People’s Party, and we do it out of responsibility with the European Union,” the chair of the S&D group, Iratxe García, said on Tuesday.

Valérie Hayer, chair of the Renew Europe group, said that while the vote was a “grave…

A parking inspector and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than €1m (£878,000) from a small German town’s parking meters.

The unnamed municipal employee is thought to have taken coins out of parking meters in Kempten “on numerous occasions” and placed them in bank…

‘Fallback positions’

The coalition, a loose alliance of nations whose members include France, Germany, Britain, Belgium, Canada and Turkey among others, sprung up earlier this year amid deep European concern about America’s ongoing support for Ukraine.

Its members have promised…

In contrast, rules to update animal welfare standards during their transport, proposed in the same year, have not yet reached political negotiations between the institutions. Instead the file is drowning under thousands of amendments in the Parliament while member countries struggle to reach…