Tag: Loss and damage
Spain election repeat more likely after expat vote count – POLITICO
Spain’s already complicated electoral landscape just got a lot more complex.
On Saturday, the count of the 233,688 ballots deposited by Spaniards living abroad — which are tallied five days after the in-person vote is held — led to the redistribution of seats in the Spanish parliament. As a result, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party lost one of the spots it was allocated in Madrid, which will now go to the center-right Popular Party.
The Popular Party is now
After summer heat, economic chill – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — While Europe counts the cost of wildfires and record high temperatures, governments are facing up to a decidedly frosty fall and winter.
Buffeted by rising borrowing costs and a decline in business and consumer confidence, the eurozone economy is weakening rapidly. Interest rates this week were increased to record-equaling levels, inflation is falling but remains stubbornly high, and, on Friday, there came a fresh warning from the
Ukrainian troops liberate southern village, while Russia shoots down drone attack on Moscow – POLITICO
Ukrainian forces have recaptured a strategic village in the Russian-occupied southeast, as their troops continue a southbound advance in a summer counteroffensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that troops had reclaimed the village of Staromayorske in the Donetsk region. It is the first major gain in days. Battles are continuing around Bakhmut for the villages of Klishchiivka and Andriivka.
“The 35th brigade and the Ariy territorial defense unit have fulfilled their task and liberated the village of Staromayorske. Glory
Wildfires trigger explosions at ammo warehouse in Greece – POLITICO
ATHENS — Wildfires ravaging central Greece spread to a military warehouse just miles from a major air base Thursday afternoon, igniting ammunition and setting off huge explosions.
After the blasts, authorities evacuated residents and tourists by land and sea from nearby towns and beaches. No injuries have been reported.
The ammunition warehouse is about 6 kilometers from a major military air base in Nea Anchialos.
The Greek air force said the area surrounding the warehouse was evacuated before the wildfires
Inside Ukraine’s first day as an EU member – POLITICO
This is the moment Ukrainians have been fighting — and dying — for. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is walking up a red carpet in Brussels’ Europa building toward his first meeting of the European Council, the forum where the European Union’s leaders hammer out the bloc’s most perplexing problems.
He has been here before, of course, wearing his olive green sweatshirt in solidarity with the Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the trenches — his eyes exhausted from leading his country through
How to navigate Spain’s EU presidency policy agenda like a pro – POLITICO
Spare a thought for Spanish diplomats in Brussels. They’re going to be working flat-out until Christmas.
Sweden has spent the last six months trying to process a huge pile of legislative files, many of which were proposed late by a European Commission distracted by COVID-19 and Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Despite commendable progress, many of these files still need a lot of work before being passed into law. Look at the files we’ve laid out below, then look back at
How US-made sniper ammunition ends up in Russian rifles – POLITICO
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As gear reviews go, it was a glowing one: In a 60-second video clip posted on Telegram, a masked sniper sporting the death’s-head insignia of the Wagner mercenary army sings the praises of the Russian-made Orsis T-5000 rifle.
“The equipment comes very well recommended,” the soldier, pictured in the charred interior of a building, tells a war reporter from the Zvezda TV channel run by the Russian Ministry of
Refugee Diaries: Part 4 – POLITICO
After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, we asked eight refugees to keep a sort of digital diary while they adjusted to lives far from everything they knew. As the conflict reaches its one-year anniversary, we asked them how things have changed since then — for them, for Ukraine and for their lives in their adopted homes.
Larysa Deshko
Location: The Netherlands
This war showed the
How McKinsey steers the Munich Security Conference – POLITICO
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MUNICH, Germany — Many of the biggest names in business and politics will cross the red carpet of the stately Bayerischer Hof hotel this weekend for the Bavarian capital’s annual Munich Security Conference. But to identify the real power behind the A-list event, turn to page 169 of the conference’s annual bible, the “Munich Security Report.”
There, in baby blue letters at the bottom half of the page, is
The parable of the last corals on Earth – POLITICO
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For three decades the Israeli scientist Maoz Fine waited for the corals around his home on the Red Sea to succumb to global warming and turn a horrible shade of white.
Instead, he discovered they have a superpower.
In 2013, Fine, who runs a research center in the Israeli port of Eilat, published a scientific paper reporting that the corals across a large sweep of the Red Sea appeared