The KGB still walks among us - Voxeurop
WEBNov 8, 2012 · The KGB – the intelligence service of the Soviet Union – was dismantled in October 1991. Ever since, each publication of a new document – lists of reservists or KGB agents, or testimonies on the activity of Soviet agents – by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre in Lithuania (LGGRTC) provokes a flood of reactions: the centre’s website (www.genocid.lt) very quickly freezes up ...
La Repubblica - Voxeurop
WEB650 000. Considered the newspaper of Italy’s intellectual and financial elite, La Repubblica was founded in 1976. With clear sympathies for the Democratic Party, it is the bugbear of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. Owned by industrialist Carlo De Benedetti’s L’Espresso group, La Repubblica is famous for writers such as Umberto Eco, Giorgio ...
Tracking progress toward Europe’s clean energy transition
WEBJun 15, 2023 · DW has developed a programme to track progress in five key areas. In a bid to stop the planet heating, the European Union made a promise in 2019 to become the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Despite a pandemic, war and energy crisis, European lawmakers are still pushing for policies to cut pollution.
A map of gun ownership in Europe - Voxeurop
WEBJun 16, 2016 · Every time a mass shooting takes place somewhere in the world, and especially in the United States, like the recent attack in Orlando, Florida, the media – rightly – points the finger on the weapon’s availability in the US.. If the gun possession in the United States is the highest in the world, with 88.8 weapons for every 100 inhabitants (the second being Yemen, with 54.8), Europeans ...
Presseurop - Voxeurop
WEBOne site, ten languages. Presseurop.eu is Europe's first multilingual general news portal. Launched at the behest of the European Commission, Presseurop, online since May 25th, 2009, benefits from complete editorial freedom and is managed by four press companies with long experience in handling news and current affairs from the international…
Inside Europe last leper’s colony - Voxeurop
WEBSep 12, 2011 · Inside Europe last leper’s colony. In Tichileşti, in the Danube delta, 19 patients continue to live in Europe’s last leper colony. Evenimentul Zilei reports from a location that was long kept secret by Romanian authorities. Ioana Miscov, a patient at the leper colony of Tichileşti, with her daughter.
How the war in Ukraine is affecting the business of Czech
WEBMay 12, 2022 · The largest independent carrier of Russian gas to the European Union is Eustream, which pipes gas to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine and Austria, from where it then flows on to other countries. One of these countries, Italy, has already announced a shift away from Russian gas and has even secured gas from Algeria to replace it.. Eustream may be left by this shift with only one transit ...
Sweden’ green transition awakes neo-colonial sentiment among …
WEBMay 24, 2022 · Sweden’ green transition awakes neo-colonial sentiment among Sámis. Sweden’s decision to drastically curb carbon emissions relies on massive renewable energy production. Extracting the metal ore for batteries and wind farms in the northern regions will disrupt the life of the last indigenous people of Europe. Published on 24 May 2022 at 10:46.
The “More Europe” party - Voxeurop
WEBFeb 27, 2018 · The “More Europe” party. As the March 4th elections approach, +Europa, led by former European Commissioner Emma Bonino, show that there is still room for pro-Europe and federalist movements. But will they manage to convince Italians to send them to parliament? Published on 27 February 2018 at 13:19. Eric Jozsef - Internazionale (Rome)
The Sudetenland’s last Germans - Voxeurop
WEBApr 15, 2013 · The Sudetenland’s last Germans. Despite many Sudeten Germans being forced to leave at the end of the Second World War, a small German community survives in country's west. As their culture slowly disappears, those who remain look back at the decades of coexistence with the Czechs. Published on 15 April 2013 at 12:16.