Priest, scientist on trial in Germany over climate protest (www.cp24.com)
A powerful image of a village in western Germany being destroyed to expand this coal mine. (twitter.com)
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Orban Ramps Up Anti-EU Rhetoric by Asking ‘What’s the Point?’ (archive.ph)
The giant black cloud hanging over Europe’s economic recovery (www.telegraph.co.uk)
‘Staggering number of adults turning to petty theft’ amid rising food prices (www.inverness-courier.co.uk)
Waggonbau Niesky, the last producer of freight wagons in Germany goes insolvent. (www.tagesschau.de)
Poland and Germany: the feud at the heart of Europe (archive.ph)
France protests: More than 100 wild hogs hurt in May Day demonstrations (www.bbc.com)
EU foreign policy chief urges China's Xi and Brazil's Lula to travel to Ukraine to see the war "through the eyes of those who have been bombed" by Russia (www.euronews.com)
Both China and Brazil have positioned themselves as potential peace brokers in the war, but their ambivalent views have been widely criticised by Western allies as biased, incomplete and Russian-leaning. Now EU’s Josep Borrell says President Xi Jinping of China and President Lula da Silva of Brazil should visit Ukraine before...
Council of Europe condemns Russia's forced transfer of Ukrainian children as 'genocide', says Red Cross must granted access to children (www.euractiv.com)
There is “evidence that deported children had faced a process of ‘russification’ through re-education in Russian language, culture and history", a resolution of the Council of Europe’s parliament says this week. The transfers of Ukrainian children were “clearly being planned and organised in a systematic way’ as...
UK company set up in name of top Putin official in Ukraine despite being under sanctions (www.theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Saldo, a notorious puppet of the Kremlin in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, is listed as the owner of a UK company registered in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine since November last year, five months after his name was added to the sanctions list.
Two ultra-rightists who fought on the side of Ukraine were arrested with weapons after returning to France (www.leparisien.fr)
Kremlin tries to build antiwar coalition in Germany (archive.ph)
European Citizens' Initiative to stop subsidies for meat industry (eci.ec.europa.eu)
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"Tracking phones and intercepting communications": Russian diplomatic facilities serve as SIGINT nests in Europe, investgation finds (vsquare.org)
Specialized equipment for signals intelligence (SIGINT) has been mounted in recent weeks on the roof of Russian facilities across Europe, from Warsaw to Budapest, Stockholm, or Brussels, which is linked to a massive network of espionage and capable of picking up the national security signals of the countries concerned. Russian...
Back my Brexit deal or face a united Ireland, Rishi Sunak tells DUP. Sounds like we might see united Ireland by 2024 as Star Trek predicted. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Protesters storm Paris Euronext building in anger over pension law (www.reuters.com)
Russian embassy in Switzerland threatens journalist of Swiss newspaper (www.swissinfo.ch)
The Swiss government was responding to a statement by the Russian embassy regarding the work of a Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) journalist covering the war in Ukraine. In Russia, wrote the embassy, the journalist’s coverage was liable to land him a financial penalty, a prison term, or a period of forced labour.
UK: defence secretary Ben Wallace accused of concealing Russian ‘act of war’ against Royal Air Force plane (www.theguardian.com)
The chair of the defence select committee questioned an account given by Wallace to parliament of a dangerous incident which occurred last September and was revealed in a leak of top secret Pentagon documents. According to the papers, a Russian pilot had locked on to the British aircraft in international airspace and, believing...
EU agrees plan to boost chip production (techxplore.com)
Under a new political agreement, the EU aims to double its current global market share to 20 percent in 2030 and mobilize more than 43 billion euros ($47.2 billion) in public and private investments to feed Europe’s growing appetite for chips. Asian industry, especially firms in China and Taiwan, currently dominate the...
Russia Bans Key Platform for Civil Society Cooperation with European Union (www.hrw.org)
The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum is the 83rd group to be “undesirables”. Among others are Transparency International, a leading global anti-corruption network, and The Andrei Sakharov Foundation, an American organization working to safeguard and promote the legacy of the Nobel-prize winning physicist who became a leader of...
German public support for Ukraine is falling (archive.vn)
Russia uses facial recognition technology from US companies to spy on anti-war protestors, says report (www.reuters.com)
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, authorities began using facial recognition to prevent people from protesting in the first place, according to a new report. Western technology has aided this crackdown.