Posts Tagged ‘Europe’s’

EU eager to pinch Europe’s last dictator Lukashenko
The European Union seriously considers sanctions against Belarus. European officials are about the violence, which the Belarusian police used to disperse crowds of people protesting against the results of the presidential election in the country on December 19.

Malta guards Europe’s gates against African immigrants
As an EU member it’s obligated to take in asylum-seekers. But as the flow of desperate Somalis and others hoping to reach Italy and farther has increased, it is making it harder than ever, drawing criticism from rights groups. When the 24-year-old Somali chemistry teacher saw the airplane overhead, he prayed that his nightmare journey was finally over.??

Europe’s workers march against austerity cuts in EU capital – Summary
Brussels – Tens of thousands of European workers peacefully converged on Brussels Wednesday to march against the recent wave of austerity measures that European Union governments have embarked upon in the wake of the euro area’s debt crisis.

Siegfried Hofreiter owns 20.000 hectares of farmland making him Europe’s biggest farmer. Most of that land is in eastern Germany and Lithuania. Hofreiter does 28 million euros of business every year and his company is listed on the stock exchange. He’s seeking to diversify into producing biogas but agriculture is a risky business even at the best of times when the world’s population is growing and when prosperity in developing countries is driving up demand for food. Our reporter travelled to Lithuania to meet Hofreiter at his third farm.

Europe’s air travel crisis enters fourth day
Air travel across much of Europe was paralyzed for a fourth day on Sunday because of a huge cloud of volcanic ash, but Dutch and German test flights carried out without apparent damage seemed to offer hope.