Europe is not doing enough to detect HIV, hepatitis
The ECDC says the region could still meet its testing targets for HIV, but that it will be harder to improve detection for hepatitis B and C. Many European countries are falling behind on efforts to detect life- threatening diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, a new analysis has found. In 2018,…
Europe ‘not ready’ for Russian drone attack
Europe is not ready to deal effectively with a Russian drone attack and must integrate Ukraine’s “battle-tested” capabilities to better protect itself, EU defence commissioner Andrius Kubilius said Monday. The 27-nation bloc is scrambling to plug its drone defences after NATO jets shot down Russian drones over Poland in September. “Why…
How sanctions dismantled one of the Kremlin’s key strongholds in Europe
Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova have demonstrated that they are capable of fundamentally rethinking and strengthening their own energy security. A decade ago, it seemed unthinkable that Russia’s Lukoil could lose its foothold on the Balkans and along the Black Sea. Its assets dominated Bulgaria’s fuel market, supplied a meaningful share…
Serbia faces tight deadline to resolve NIS ownership amid looming fuel crisis
Energy Minister Dubravka Đedović Handanović declared the energy sector “almost impossible” to manage under the U.S. sanctions, offering her resignation. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić warned on Sunday that a resolution for the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS) – the country’s primary refiner, which the United States has sanctioned over its…
Hungary ready to clash with Croatia over Russian oil supplies
Tensions flared between Budapest and Zagreb after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed that Croatia’s Adriatic pipeline lacked the capacity to replace Russian oil imports to Hungary and Slovakia. Speaking in Washington on November 7 during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Orbán asserted that Croatia was “unable to…