Новости за 20.01.2017

Donald J. Trump delivered his first speech as President of the United States after the Presidencial and Viice-Presidencial inauguration in Washington, US, on Friday. The newly inaugurated President was joined by the new First Lady of the US Melania Trump, and his children Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump and Barron Trump.

A project spearheaded by Russian gas monopoly Gazprom to supply with gas the lucrative Turkish market and possibly Europe could be rubberstamped by Russia’s Federation Council at the beginning of next month. The upper chamber of the Russian parliament may consider the law on ratification of the agreement between Russia and Turkey on construction of

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The European Court of Justice has ruled that stopping American citizens from adopting Russian children is “discriminatory.” Strasbourg’s decision comes with an order to pay €3,000 in damages plus legal costs to a group of 45 US citizens who have been denied adoption since 2012, when Russia introduced the law. Russia believes that children adopted

A French socialist without a pro-Russian or “law and order” agenda may have a chance at winning the nomination of the ruling party. The primaries are open, but this year the voter’s pool will be reduced to loyal supporters of the party. Benoit Hamon is committed to legalizing cannabis and introducing a universal basic income of

Italian Energy ENI said it has been awarded three licenses by Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy as part of the APA 2016 – Awards in Pre-Defined Areas. Following the award, ENI is now operator in PL900 in the Barents Sea, with a share of 90% in joint venture with Concedo with 10%, the Italian

After three centuries, the Lloyds of London will no longer be “of London.” The company is moving its headquarters, its CEO Inga Beale confirmed on Friday. Talking to Bloomberg TV on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Beale confirmed that following Prime Minister May’s announcement last Tuesday, Lloyds was going ahead with

Julian Assange will not honour his pledge to volunteer his extradition to the United States following Barack Obama’s clemency to Ms. Manning. The WikiLeaks founder vowed to agree to his extradition from the U.K, abandoning the Ecuador’s embassy in London, if the outgoing President pardoned Ms. Manning. Now, his lawyer says that Assange will not

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, concluding a four-day official visit to Israel on January 19, praised relations between the two countries. He said 1,000 years of coexistence between the Jews and Poles. In an interview with the Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, Duda said Jews in Poland feel safer than Jews elsewhere in Europe, and that kippa-wearing

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said on Friday it was an “open question” whether migrants from the European Union would enjoy easier access to Britain after Brexit than those from other parts of the world. “That could be a subject for the negotiations. What we have said clearly is that we cannot accept the

The European Parliament on January 19 passed a resolution containing its recommendations for the European Pillar of Social Rights. They agreed that all workers should have their basic rights guaranteed, whatever their form of employment and contract. The rapporteur, Maria João Rodrigues, a Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) MEP, said: “Today, many European

The European Commission announced today the names of 15 well-known business people who will form a new High Level Group of Innovators to advise the EU on innovation policy. At a press conference in Davos, at the closure of the World Economic Forum 2017, Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner in charge of Research, Science and Innovation named the composition of the panel

Donald Trump is taking office to become the 45th President of the United States on Friday, January 20. He is expected to be America’s last global leader, championing an America-first transactional policy among sovereigns. His supporters are streaming into Washington DC, with Trump recalling on Thursday his campaign promise to be the President of the

The so-called Islamic State (IS) militants destroyed part of Palmyra’s Roman amphitheater on Friday, the BBC reports. IS destroyed the facade of the second-century amphitheater (pictured) along with the Roman tetrapylon, the Syrian Arab New Agency reports (SANA). Because of its significance for humanity, the site has become a high-value target for terrorists. The ancient

Sweden has entered a campaign period with the center-right opposition taking a bold initiative. As the country heads to the polls in September 2018, the center-right opposition flexing its muscles against the center-left minority government and is taking a bold initiative.  On Thursday, it became clear that the center-right would move to embrace the far-right,

The EU presented another batch of reports on the EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) Agreement and EU-US Passenger Name Records (PNR) Agreement yesterday The Commission hid its unrest ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, by keeping comments short, but its administration is working at full speed towards the rescue of all the work

MEPs challengde the European Commission’s black-list algorithm for defining countries that are high-risk for money laundering, as too strict. A vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg showed that the list is “too limited” and should include territories that facilitate tax crimes. Greens/EFA MEP Judith Sargentini has prepared a resolution against the current proposal of

Audio book publishers can heave a sigh of relief, after Amazon’s move to end exclusivity obligations for the supply and distribution of audiobooks between Audible.com – a subsidiary of Amazon – and Apple Computer Inc. “Our competition complaint has been successful and will put an end to anti-competitive behaviour on the part of Audible and

The European Commision said on January 19 it has signed a financing agreement to grant €65 million to Zambia for a programme expected to provide access to reliable, clean and affordable electricity services to at least 63,000 households, or about 300,000 people, to social and public infrastructure and to eligible Micro Small Enterprises (MSEs). The

Following strong gas sales to Europe, Russian state company Gazprom said on January 19 it posted a profit of 737,391 billion rubles for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, higher than its profit for the same period in 2015, which stood at 690,271 billion rubles. Total sales (net of excise tax, VAT and customs