Using clever semantic tricks and loopholes in Europe's (strict) regulations, asset-management firms are selling "green" investments that fund the hydrocarbon industry. Beneficiaries include Eni, Enel, Repsol, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP, and Shell. Here we look at the case of Italy's Eurizon, a subsidiary of banking giant Intesa SanPaolo.
The head of the Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties, co-recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, shares her views on what peace means for Ukraine today, its unprecedentedly challenging path to joining the European Union, and the human rights situation in her country.
Each month, in partnership with Display Europe and Krytyka Polityczna, we publish Paulina Siegien's press review of news from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. A selection of carefully chosen topics and articles from the local independent press to give an insight into what’s happening in the ‘New Europe’.
Belarus has become Russia's accomplice in Ukraine. Dictator Alexander Lukashenko is to blame – but so is Europe, for its inaction and its indifference to the protests and demands of ordinary Belarusians. Katja Artsiomenka, a Belarusian journalist in Germany, describes their sense of abandonment and helplessness, their despair and fear.
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