The Labour Party of Norway decided not to support oil production in the region of the Lofoten Islands. Now, opponents of the deployment of oil projects in the Norwegian Arctic zone have a solid majority in parliament, which ultimately should lead to the final imposition of a ban on oil production...

The anti-immigrant movement will maximally strengthen position of nationalists on the eve of the EU parliamentary elections. Estonia has come closer to forming a government that would include an anti-immigrant party, potentially strengthening position of nationalists before the May parliamentary...

In the near future, Prague residents will drink Coca-Cola in full confidence that it consists of exactly the same ingredients that the beverage drunk, say, by Berliners or Londoners. The countries of Eastern and Central Europe and the European Commission finally reached a compromise on the new...

The U.S. to retaliate with further sanctions on Russia, as the latter failed to provide assurance on the usage of chemical weapons. As per Bloomberg’s report, the White House has got a new package of sanctions for imposing them on Russia; this step comes as retaliation to the “nerve-agent attack on...

The European Union is completing the naval part of the large-scale Operation SOPHIA off the coast of Libya. Thanks to this Mediterranean patrol operation launched at the height of the 2015 migration crisis, more than 650 thousand people were rescued. However, it was not possible to reach a...

Container ships with Chinese goods for the EU countries pass the Suez Canal but do not moor right away in the ports of Greece and Italy. More often, they spend five or six days more to go around the waters of the Atlantic to Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg or Bremerhaven. Experts say that these ports...

Criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA) is growing in the United States. It is connected to certification process of the Boeing 737 Max 8 model, which has been involved in two accidents in the past six months. According to the US media, during the tests, the FAA...

A new OECD survey, “Risks that Matter”, has revealed that there is not enough public services and social benefits and they are also inaccessible, many people in the OECD countries believe. And compared to the taxes that they pay, about half of the people surveyed complained that they do not get...

More than 30 companies in the world — manufacturers of food, consumer goods, packaging, retailers, and others — for the first time disclosed information on how much plastic they produce annually. More than 120 companies pledged to reduce plastic production as part of the Ellen MacArthur...