Новости за 24.04.2018

The president of the European Commission has decided that nine member states who are failing to fight air pollution will receive another month's respite.

Spanish special forces seized a boat from African 'pirates' as diplomats watched on Monday, in a drill marking Spain's bid to grab a top EU military mission from the UK.

Spanish special forces seized a boat from 'African pirates' as diplomats watched on Monday, in a drill marking Spain's bid to grab the EU's top military mission from the UK.

Russian domestic television - the only source of foreign news for most Russians - consistently shows Europe over-run by immigrants, beset by terrorist atrocities, and on strike. This has serious consequences.

In an exchange with the new Chinese ambassador to the EU - his first appearance at an EU institution - the EU Parliament international trade committee called for action to meet commitments to open up China's market and reduce overcapacity.

Six out of seven political parties running in Greenland's parliamentary elections on Tuesday are pro-independence, but they disagree on how fast the last ties to Copenhagen should be cut. Increasing dependence on China could be the consequence.

The anti-abortion campaign known as "One of US" lost its bid to force the European Commission to propose legislation that would cut funding to embryonic stem cells.

Far-right extremists on Monday attacked Afghan asylum seekers staging a protest on Lesbos island over poor reception conditions. Members of the far-right Patriotic Movement attacked the some 200 protestors, injuring around ten people. Police later dispersed the crowds.

German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday defended moves by her government to accept 10,000 people designated as refugees by the United Nations refugee agency. Merkel said the UN program helps stem irregular migration and curb trafficking. "Our goal is to prevent illegal migration and to replace it with legal migration," she told reporters.

Vera Jourova, the European commissioner for justice, on Monday told reporters she will go to Malta in the coming weeks to see how to improve the country's the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, which probes money-laundering issues. She will also look into the on-going investigation of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Journalists from eight EU countries, commissioned by Greenpeace, found that 51 percent of farms emitting high levels of ammonia received a total of €104m in payments under the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), some of them environmental subsidies. "The EU's Common Agricultural Policy is funding some of the most polluting livestock farms," Greenpeace said on Tuesday. "Taxpayers' money should not be used to reward the heaviest agricultural polluters," it added.