Consider Anca Gheorghe, a 23-year-old Roma woman from Romania. She attended a poorly resourced school with unqualified teachers and faced unfair discrimination, leaving her with limited opportunities. Left with virtually no other options, she joined an EU-funded vocational program to train as a hairdresser, hoping for financial independence. Yet, there are already enough hairdressers in … Read more
Rebalancing climate finance to increase and ‘ring fence’ investment and incentives across the full agri-food value chain – including in the hidden middle – is critical to stimulate momentum in food systems transformation and to simultaneously strengthen food security. This is particularly true for small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for most of the sector’s businesses.[7] … Read more
Brantner wants to “make Green great again,” she said, adapting the slogan of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, whom she has criticized as a threat to global climate policy. Brantner will remain state secretary in the German economy ministry, headed by Robert Habeck, Germany’s vice chancellor. He is expected to be nominated as the Green Party’s … Read more
As the head of the regional government, “I want to apologize,” to the people who had “the feeling that the aid did not arrive or was not enough,” he added on Friday. As Mazón was speaking, around 300 protestors gathered outside Valencia’s parliament chanting slogans demanding his resignation, Spanish newspaper El País reported. Around 130,000 … Read more
The Netherlands’ government has been comprised of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), the center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) and the NSC since July. But the coalition has been beset by infighting over how to respond to the Amsterdam clashes, with anti-immigrant PVV leader Geert Wilders — … Read more
In September 2023, Kasselakis was elected from nowhere to head Syriza. Since then, the party has been mired in toxic infighting. Kasselakis, a former Goldman Sachs trader, faced criticism over his opinions on the economy, NATO, and Israel, which were seen as far apart from that of the left. The legitimacy of his wealth declaration … Read more
Gallant will be replaced by Foreign Minister Israel Katz, while Gideon Sa’ar, a minister without a portfolio, will replace Katz as foreign minister, the Prime Minister’s Office announced. The Biden administration has had a relatively good relationship with Gallant — as opposed to with Netanyahu himself, who has often frustrated the White House with his … Read more
Attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear plants would be particularly serious, said Kharchenko, the analyst. Kyiv’s reactors currently provide 60 percent of the country’s total power output and any missile strikes on the energy infrastructure supporting those plants could put them out of commission. Last month, Ukraine urged the European Union for help, fearing Russia would soon … Read more
The Spanish government will deploy another 5,000 soldiers and 5,000 police officers to assist the flood-wrecked region of Valencia, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Saturday, as the death toll from this week’s natural disaster rose to 211 people. Citing it as the worst flood in Spain’s history, Sánchez acknowledged that current efforts were insufficient, … Read more
But the intensity of the rainfall that hit areas around Spain’s third-largest city, Valencia — in some places, roughly a year’s worth of rain in a single day — exposed the country’s unreadiness and led the Socialist-led national government to slam the center-right regional authorities for failing to pass on early warnings to people in … Read more
