President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday (3 August) decried “revolting” practices exposed during an audit of Ukraine’s military recruitment centres and pledged to fix the system by placing in charge people who understood the meaning of war. Zelenskyy has expressed indignation at corruption uncovered during the audit last month after a high-profile incident of wrongdoing came to light in the Black Sea port of Odesa. “We had a detailed conversation,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address after meeting Interior Minister...
Anger mounted yesterday over a refusal by health chiefs to use three mothballed cancer centres.The units, set up by world-leading oncologist Professor Karol Sikora, are now in the hands of a private equity firm after going bust last year.But experts claim tens of thousands of stricken patients could be diagnosed and treated if only the NHS agreed to negotiate rather than allow equipment to “gather dust” at a time cancer targets are routinely missed.Prof Sikora, 75, called the continued closures...
The energy demand-response market is moving to the mainstream, thanks to the rise of electric vehicles and the massive growth in power consumption from data centres, which can provide flexibility to the electricity grid in case of peak demand, two senior energy officials have told EURACTIV.com. Seydou Kane is vice-president for public affairs and general manager for distributed power quality (EMEA) at Eaton, an energy management company. Daniele Andreoli is the head of flexibility solutions at Enel X, the largest...
