This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Eni have signed a €500 million 15-year finance contract to support the conversion of Eni’s Livorno refinery in Tuscany into a biorefinery. The agreement was signed today at Eni’s headquarters in San Donato Milanese by EIB Vice-President Gelsomina Vigliotti and […]Italy: EIB and Eni sign €500 million finance agreement to convert Livorno refinery into a biorefinery
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Eni have signed a €500 million 15-year finance contract to support the conversion of Eni’s Livorno refinery in Tuscany into a biorefinery. The agreement was signed today at Eni’s headquarters in San Donato Milanese by EIB Vice-President Gelsomina Vigliotti and […]Ukrainian school in southwestern city of Chernivtsi reopens after major EU funded renovation
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. A school in the southwestern Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi reopened today after major upgrades funded by the European Investment Bank (EIB). Gymnasium No. 20 – a primary and middle school – underwent a €930,000 renovation that improved conditions for more than 400 students and teachers. Among […]Global collaboration grows to address crises in Gaza, Sudan, Afghanistan
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Amid growing geopolitical turbulence, the United Nations is deepening its collaboration with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to help address some of the world’s most complex and protracted conflicts, from Gaza and Sudan to Myanmar and Afghanistan. Briefing the Security Council on Thursday, Khaled Khiari, Assistant […]UN forum affirms stronger commitment to achieve sustainable development
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) has concluded at United Nations Headquarters in New York following a week-and-a-half of substantive discussion between Member States, civil society representatives and UN agencies. At the end of the conference on Wednesday, Member States adopted a Ministerial Declaration by […]Torture, threats and arbitrary arrests: UN warns of ‘serious abuses’ against Afghans forced to return
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Afghans returning to their country face “serious violations” of their human rights committed by the Taliban de facto authorities, according to a United Nations report published on Thursday amid mass deportation campaigns from Iran and Pakistan. These abuses include threats, cases of torture, mistreatment and arbitrary arrest […]World News in Brief: Thailand-Cambodia border hostilities, humanitarian efforts in Syria and attacks across Ukraine
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. In a dramatic escalation of a long-standing border dispute, a deadly exchange of fire between Thailand and Cambodia killed at least 11 civilians and a soldier on Thursday, according to news reports. Both states are claiming the other side fired first. The dispute dates to 1953 when […]25th EU-China summit – EU press release
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Union (EU) and China held their 25th Summit in Beijing on 24 July 2025. The President of the European Council, António Costa, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, met with China’s President, Xi Jinping, followed by a […]Joint EU-China press statement on climate
July 25, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. At the EU-China Summit in Beijing, the following joint press statement was agreed: The Way Forward After the 10th AnniversaryOf the Adoption of the Paris Agreement On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the European […]‘Famine silently begins to unfold’ in Gaza, UNRWA chief says
July 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), said that is what one of its workers told him on Thursday morning. This sobering comment comes amidst increasingly severe […]Home is where the heart is – and where development begins
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. When Denis Jobin, a senior evaluation specialist at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), visited a slum in Kenya in March as part of an ongoing evaluation, the smell was overwhelming. Mathare, one of the country’s largest slums, houses upwards of 500,000 people in five square kilometres, […]Nigeria: Amid record hunger and surging insecurity, emergency food assistance to stall entirely
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. At a time of escalating violence and record levels of hunger in Nigeria, critical funding shortfalls are forcing the UN World Food Program (WFP) to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in the northeast of the country. While WFP has been able […]World Court says countries are legally obligated to curb emissions, protect climate
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, issued its advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change, read out by the President of the Court, Judge Iwasawa Yuji, on Wednesday. The UN’s principal judicial body ruled that States have an […]Haiti: Violence and displacement driving humanitarian crisis as funding needs go unmet
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Escalating gang violence and displacement continue to drive humanitarian needs in Haiti, the UN said on Wednesday. Nearly 1.3 million people in the Caribbean country have fled their homes, with an additional 15,000 uprooted last week after armed attacks in the communes of Dessalines and Verrettes in […]Syria: Second convoy brings critical aid to Sweida
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. A second convoy from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) reached battered Sweida on Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordinatin of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in its latest update. Deadly sectarian violence has displaced more than 145,000 people in the southern city, some of whom have […]UN official reiterates call for Gaza ceasefire as ‘nightmare of historic proportions’ unfolds
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. A senior UN official on Wednesday urged the Security Council to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages, warning that the war has become “a nightmare of historic proportions” and it is “long past time” for the fighting to end and […]Opening remarks by President von der Leyen with President Costa and Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. President Xi, Thank you for welcoming us again to this magnificent city and this great country. It is my third time in Beijing as President of the European Commission and my first time in my second term. But this one is special. As you […]‘Catastrophic birth outcomes’ in Gaza threaten a whole generation, warns UN agency
July 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Pregnant women and newborns in Gaza face “catastrophic” conditions, including a dysfunctional healthcare system, psychological stress and food deprivation, the UN reproductive health agency UNFPA reported on Wednesday. In the first half of 2025, only 17,000 births were recorded, according to Gazan health authorities, representing a 41 […]Spain: Indra Group to step up research and development of defence and space technologies with €385 million in EIB financing
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €385 million financing agreement with Spanish technology company Indra Group to boost research, development and innovation of cutting-edge technologies for the defence and space sector. This is the largest EIB’s financing agreement in Spain to date to strengthen the […]UN’s Guterres declares fossil fuel era fading; presses nations for new climate plans before COP30 summit
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. UN Secretary‑General António Guterres declared the world has “passed the point of no return” on the shift to renewables and implored governments to file sweeping new climate plans before November’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil, saying the fossil fuel era is nearing its end. In a special […]‘Perfect storm’ of global crises drove years of food price surges: FAO
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Máximo Torero Cullen, previewed its annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report in a briefing on Tuesday to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York. The report, to be released later this […]Commission opens in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Downtown by UMG
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of Downtown by Universal Music Group (‘UMG’). The Commission has preliminary concerns that the transaction may allow UMG to reduce competition in the wholesale market for the distribution of recorded […]EIB Global lends Armenia €50 million for development in Syunik province
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank’s development arm, EIB Global, is lending €50 million to the Republic of Armenia for key socio-economic projects in the country’s southernmost province. The new financing agreement was signed during the first-ever visit by an Armenian Deputy Prime Minister to the EIB Headquarters. […]Commission positively assesses Belgium’s third payment request of €614 million under NextGenerationEU
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission positively assessed Belgium’s third payment request for €614 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the cornerstone of NextGenerationEU.This assessment marks an important step towards the disbursement of €594 million in grants and €20 million in loans to support Belgium’s economic growth […]‘Peace is a choice’: UN chief urges diplomacy as wars spread from Gaza to Ukraine
July 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Warning that the world is failing to uphold international law as wars stretch from Gaza to Ukraine, UN Secretary‑General António Guterres urged all nations to choose diplomacy over division and recommit to settling disputes peacefully. This is the only sustainable path to global security, he told ministers […]Netherlands: European boost for global food security: Dutch biotech Solynta gets €20 million EIB backing for highly disease resistant potato varieties
July 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €20 million venture debt financing agreement with Dutch biotechnology company Solynta, to accelerate the development of potato varieties with enhanced resistance to disease and resilience to climate change. Solynta will use the EIB support for its research into […]Doha agreement brings DR Congo government and M23 rebels a step closer to peace
July 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. An agreement signed by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Congo River Alliance/March 23 Movement (AFC/M23) has been hailed by the UN peacekeeping mission in the country (MONUSCO) as “an important step towards sustainable peace.” In a statement released on 19 […]Terror and chaos for Gaza’s people now entering the ‘death phase’
July 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams on Monday described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli military pushed into Deir Al-Balah for the first time. In an alert, the UN agency […]Dreams amid the rubble: Gaza’s women speak of homes, loss and hungry children
July 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Hadriya collapses from hunger, Khadija dreams of her kitchen and Hiyam longs for her daughters’ laughter in the garden – these are the stories of three women from Gaza who embody the daily struggles of mothers exhausted by war, hunger and displacement as the nearly two-year-long conflict […]World News in Brief: Houthi-Israel tensions, Sudan cholera cases rise, deadly attacks in Ukraine
July 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. As tensions between Houthi rebels in Yemen and Israel escalate, the UN Secretary-General is “deeply concerned” about the renewed airstrikes on Hudaydah Port conducted by Israel this Monday, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York. These strikes occurred while the UN Mission to support the Hudaydah […]Danish Presidency debriefs EP committees on priorities
July 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council. Denmark holds the Presidency of the Council until the end of 2025. This text will be updated regularly as the hearings take place. […]People dying from lack of aid every day in Gaza: WFP official
July 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, a senior official with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday. Ross Smith, director of emergency preparedness and […]The hype of trade diversion in the era of Trumpism
July 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Even a first year university student in Economics can get that it is unnatural for trade to be stagnant. On the contrary, every single hour, day and so on trade is bound to go up and down depending on market demand and supply. Especially in times of fierce trade wars coming from the other side […]EIB Group backs more than €15 billion in new investment
July 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank Group approved a total of €15.5 billion in new financing to back business growth and corporate innovation, improve transport and energy connectivity, invest in housing and strengthen water resilience. The decisions were made at the July board meetings of the EIB and […]
