England manager Gareth Southgate is comfortable with fully focusing on making sure there is a Trafalgar Square party in July after European Championship success rather than worrying about his contract situation. Southgate has made the conscious decision to put talks over his future on hold despite his current terms with the Football Association being set […]
The North’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has expressed the importance of getting a new stadium built at Casement Park for Euro 2028 as diggers moved onto the site. The derelict GAA ground in west Belfast has been earmarked as a venue for the soccer tournament. However, uncertainty remains over the funding for it following reports […]
Italy’s competition authority on Thursday fined TikTok 10 million euros (nearly $11 million), saying the hugely popular video app had failed to sufficiently protect minors. “The company has failed to implement appropriate mechanisms to monitor content published on the platform, particularly those that may threaten the safety of minors and vulnerable individuals,” the AGCM watchdog […]
Ukrainian officials signed an agreement with France to invest over 5 million euros towards the reconstruction of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov announced on March 4. Work is reportedly already underway on several restoration projects, including on the roof of the Chernihiv regional academic theater, development of anti-radiation centers in local hospitals, as […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s powerful Commission announced on Thursday that it will begin releasing billions of euros to Poland that were frozen over the previous government’s policies that the bloc said amounted to widespread backsliding on fundamental democratic principles. The move had been expected after Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised “good […]
The EU Council on Feb. 28 approved 50 billion euros ($54 billion) in loans and grants for Kyiv, giving the final go-ahead for the four-year Ukraine Facility tool. The package provides funding to Ukraine from 2024 to 2027, with 33 billion euros ($35.8 billion) available in loans and 17 billion euros (18.5 billion) in grants. […]
PARIS (Reuters) – The Netherlands will contribute 100 million euros ($108.47 million) to a Czech initiative to buy ammunition for Ukraine from countries around the world, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday. Rutte was speaking after a meeting in Paris to bolster support for Ukraine as it struggles to fight Russia’s invasion, convened […]
Despite the sanctions, Russia imported about €100 million worth of “sensitive goods” and technology from the EU in the first nine months of 2023. Source: Bloomberg, citing its anonymous sources Details: One European official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that EU countries are still not doing enough to stop Russia from obtaining technologies […]
MILAN – The name has changed, but growth continues. Oniverse, formerly Gruppo Calzedonia, on Monday reported 2023 revenues grew 2 percent to 3.1 billion euros. This compares with 3 billion euros at the end of 2022. At constant exchange, revenues rose 5.5 percent. More from WWD In December, Gruppo Calzedonia took on the Oniverse moniker, […]
The European Commission has announced a €83 million funding package for various humanitarian projects in Ukraine and Moldova for the support of Ukrainian refugees amid Russian aggression. Ukraine is to receive €75 million within the framework of the project. Source: European Pravda with reference to press service of the European Commission Quote: “At the heart […]
The president of the European football ruling body UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, said that security is the “biggest concern” during this summer’s Euro 2024 in Germany. “The world is going crazy. In these crazy times where, geostrategically, the world is going crazy, the biggest concern is security,” he said in an interview with the Telegraph newspaper. […]
The allies promised to help Kyiv strengthen its air defence in 2024, from the joint procurement of anti-aircraft missiles for the Patriot systems to the Skynex systems from Germany and anti-aircraft missiles from the UK, during the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on 10 January. Source: the statement by NATO following the results of the […]