Source: bne IntelliNews Admire the sleekness of Turkey’s TF-X fighter jet as much as you wish, but there’s no getting away from the fact that it still lacks the engine that would give it a shot at becoming a genuine fifth-generation stealth aircraft that could compete in the skies. Not that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip […]
Source: euro|topics Three lessons can be learned from the shock, Corriere della Sera explains: “First, that such a crisis could hardly have occurred in the European Union thanks to the more careful regulations to which our banks have been subjected for several years now. Secondly, that we must distinguish between liquidity crises and insolvencies. The […]
Source: bne IntelliNews Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and American philosopher Noam Chomsky are among more than 50 politicians and intellectuals from 22 countries who have called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to end legal attacks against Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). The left-wing HDP, the third biggest party in the […]
Source: bne IntelliNews Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and American philosopher Noam Chomsky are among more than 50 politicians and intellectuals from 22 countries who have called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to end legal attacks against Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). The left-wing HDP, the third biggest party in the […]
Source: bne IntelliNews Greek public power corporation PPC is understood to have sealed a binding contract to take over the assets held by Italian utility group Enel in Romania for the price of €1.26, Economedia.ro reported quoting the Greek company, which has not published yet an official release on the deal. The Greek company also […]
Source: bne IntelliNews Russia’s oil product exports have slumped by 20% in February, marking their lowest level since May 2022, according to tanker tracking data, reported S&P on March 2 in a note. Shipborne exports of crude, however, have held up well and remain robust. “Russia-origin seaborne oil product exports averaged 2.13mn barrels per day […]
Source: bne IntelliNews How many ships are in Russia’s “ghost fleet” of tankers? No one has a clear idea: estimates run from 100 to 600 tankers depending on whether you include the old tankers Russia has been snapping up in the last year or the dark fleets operated by Russia’s partners like Iran and Venezuela […]
Source: bne IntelliNews In the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, visits of world leaders have picked up in Kyiv. US President Joe Biden on Monday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday were the latest foreign dignitaries to meet with Ukrainian President […]
Source: euro|topics The West’s support for Ukraine must be unwavering, columnist Michael McDowell stresses in The Irish Times: “If that war ends by tearing up the foundations of the world order it will be the harbinger of many more wars. … Rewarding Putin’s use of invasion, war crime, assassination, corruption, subversion and repression is morally […]
Source: euro|topics A risk analysis has shown that a severe earthquake in Bucharest could claim more than 6,500 lives. More than 2,400 buildings are considered at risk of collapse. Adevărul columnist Ștefan Vlaston comments: “The images from Turkey show us something. That some buildings remained standing despite the earthquake, surrounded by countless collapsed buildings. What […]