Новости за 29.05.2017

Just three days after U.S. president Donald Trump’s visit to Brussels, the U.S. homeland security secretary John Kelly has said he may ban laptop computers and large devices in the cabins of all international flights. Kelly suggested that the global laptop ban scenario is on the table, country to what European Commissioner for Migration, Home

The European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi said that no Greek government bonds will be included in its asset purchases before a “full agreement” is reached on Greece. Ahead of ECB board meeting of 8 June 2017 in Tallinn and 15 June Luxembourg Eurogroup meeting, Draghi addressed the European Parliament deputies’ Committee on Economic

New French President Emmanuel Macron accused Russian state news outlets RT and Sputnik of spreading “fake news” and “propaganda” against him during May’s presidential election. Speaking at a joint news conference on May 29 with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, Macron said the outlets were “organs of influence and propaganda” and “behaved like structures of

At the very last week of the Maltese presidency, the Council of the European Union has formally adopted new rules to prevent tax avoidance via non-EU countries. The agreement was settled back at the informal European Council that took place in Malta last February, in order to prevent hybrid mismatches and complete the Anti-Tax Avoidance

The eurozone economy still needs a "fairly substantial amount" of monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank, its president Mario Draghi told European lawmakers on Monday, striking a cautious note in his last public comments before the bank's June policy meeting. Last week Draghi said there was "no reason to deviate from the indications" that the

€44million in aid will be given to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to support people affected by conflict and natural disasters. As reported by the European Commission, the aid will combat years of displacement and also finance natural disaster prevention in South-West and Central Asia. In addition, this aid partly targets children by financing children’s education

As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan started last Saturday, the parliament in Belgium’s Wallonia region on Wednesday banned the slaughter of animals without first stunning them despite opposition from Muslim (and Jewish) communities defending their rituals. The ban on slaughter without first stunning or anesthetizing the animals does not apply to imports of kosher or

The European Union and China will hold a summit in Brussels on 1-2 June, the first since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump that has united the two economic powers against global warming and trade protectionism. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica

British Prime Minister Theresa May is winning the electoral campaign, but it is not certain she is achieving her strategic objectives. May called the snap election to bolster her negotiating position abroad by gaining a more comfortable majority at home. The projected bigger majority at home would reduce pressure from Conservative backbenchers, who provided little

Working with a group of incarcerated, an Argentinian cognitive psychology team is trying to understand the moral judgment of terrorists. The study published by the Nature Human Behaviour Magazine draws its subjects from 66 far-right paramilitary terrorists incarcerated in Colombia. All of them have been convicted of murder and have taken part in massacres. The

One of India’s top lawyers has joined forces with the group “Speak out on FGM” to call for an end to female genital mutilation (FGM). Together, they published a paper titled “Guide to eliminating the FGM practice in India”. Supreme Court lawyer Indira’s paper will be submitted to India’s ministry of women and child development.

The former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi proposed the alignment of German and Italian elections in September, to ensure the new administration “wastes no time” in taking bold action in the economy. In an interview with Il Messangero, the newly re-elected leader of the ruling center-left party says that he is not looking for the dissolution

The headscarf doesn’t belong in Germany, according to the country’s far-right candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel. In an interview with Berlin daily Tagesspiegel on May 28, Weidel, who is representing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of federal elections in September, said: “Headscarves do not belong in public spaces and should be banned

A Ukrainian judge, who was suspended for three months in January after prosecutors accused him of rigging the allocation of commercial law cases, has admitted he keeps piles of cash and owns a Breguet watch worth nearly a third of his annual salary. Artur Yemelianov has been accused of nudging judges to deliver his preferred

Short of decriminalising drug use, France’s newly elected President Emmanuel Macron has promised to end prison terms for marijuana consumers. The new law is slated to be introduced by by year’s end. Under existing legislation, those caught using the drug in France face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to

New French President Emmanuel Macron promised to be tough with Vladimir Putin, when they meet at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris later today. Macron, who was elected on May 7 by a wide margin, said it was “indispensable to talk to Russia because there are a number of international subjects that will not be resolved without

“Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel upon her return to Germany. She noted that while maintaining good neighbourly relations with all major powers was desirable, including the US and the UK, but also Russia, Europe needed to focus on itself. The Chancellor was addressing a merry crowd

Europe’s biggest mass migrations involves Ukrainians working in Poland. As many as 1.3m Ukrainians received the temporary work registrations that Poland grants to citizens of its eastern neighbour in 2016. An additional 116,000 more received longer-term work permits. As reported by The Financial Times, both figures have leapt six-fold since 2013, driven largely by the

Until Saturday, President Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner was going to be a witness in the ongoing FBI investigation in the relation between the campaign and Russia. But, the story Washington Post broke on Saturday suggests that Jared Kushner is more than a witness, as he is one of the President’s confidants that took

It is the time of the Industrial Challenge.  In the New Competitive Economy, where the role of the universities as the drivers of Innovation and Creativity in industry is becoming more and more important, Europe has a new challenge – to redefine its value chaine, to integrate the global networks with new ideas, new solutions

Russia’s oligarchs emerged from the Soviet era as a new class of moneyed industrialists. Some have made their mark beyond Russia’s borders, amassing real estate portfolios, companies and even football clubs. They support an international service industry of wealth managers, investment advisers, real estate agents, luxury brands, elite schools, personal trainers and nutritionists. But for

After all the drama with the Podemos and Ciudadanos, when it became clear that Mariano Rajoy will stay in power, having won the conditional backing of his Spanish socialist rivals, the French politico-satyrical weekly Le Canard enchaîné called him a “Don Tancredo”. “Don Tancredo” is a character who, in a corrida, waits for the bull

A central part of the new European Pillar of Social Rights proposed by the European Commission is the so-called work-life balance proposal, which reflects three main principles—equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. Despite being prepared in close consultation with a broad range of stakeholders, the

LONDON – Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran’s president in a landslide, meaning that it is he who will be dealing with an antagonistic US President Donald Trump. What will their relationship mean for the 2015 international agreement that has, for now, frozen Iran’s nuclear ambitions? The Iranian nuclear deal was the culmination of

NEW YORK – The world is about to mark the 50th anniversary of the June 1967 war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria – a conflict that continues to stand out in a region with a modern history largely defined by violence. The war lasted less than a week, but its legacy remains pronounced