EU adopts first-ever seafood trade ban
Imports of fish from Belize, Cambodia and Guinea were today banned from the EU, following a vote by fisheries ministers meeting in Brussels. European fishing vessels will also be forbidden from...
View ArticlePhilippines and Papua New Guinea warned over illegal fishing
Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for fisheries and maritime affairs, today announced that the European Commission is to warn the Philippines and Papua New Guinea about their failure to tackle...
View ArticleCommission punishes Sri Lanka over illegal fishing
The European Commission today (14 October) announced that it will ban imports of fish from Sri Lanka because of illegal fishing in the country. Despite four years of talks, the Commission found that...
View ArticleCommission warns island groups over illegal fishing
The European Commission has today (12 December) handed out “yellow cards” to the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines over their illegal fishing...
View ArticleECJ adviser: Hamas should be off EU terror list
Hamas and the Tamil Tigers should be removed from an EU list of terror organizations, an adviser to the bloc’s top court said Thursday, arguing the Union had provided insufficient evidence to support...
View ArticleEuropean court keeps Hamas on terror list
Europe’s top court ruled Wednesday that Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, should remain on a European list of terror organizations. A lower court had removed Hamas and the Liberation Tigers of...
View ArticleEU rebuffs Montenegro plea to help repay $1B Chinese highway loan
Brussels on Monday rejected a call by Montenegro’s government to help finance a $1 billion Chinese loan for an unfinished highway project that has plunged the EU accession candidate into a debt...
View ArticleBiden names 9 ambassador nominees, including for Israel, NATO
President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled nine nominees for ambassadorships, including for Israel, NATO and Mexico. Among the names was hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, whose quick thinking and...
View ArticleEU starts work on rival to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
EU countries are finally getting serious about their response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the huge transport and infrastructure project that Beijing is using to connect Asia to European...
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A sticky wicket: How cricket is making inroads in Europe
KREFELD, Germany — In the week France’s basketball and handball teams were fighting for gold in Tokyo, its other national team was playing a match thousands of miles away, in slightly more modest...
View ArticleWhy Australia is paralyzed over deporting Novak Djokovic
SYDNEY — “Rules are rules,” according to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison — but if you’re the best tennis player in the world, the rules don’t necessarily apply. The world has been waiting...
View ArticleFrance snubs China with its Indo-Pacific forum
As France prepares to roll out the red carpet in Paris next month for a forum where EU ministers will meet 30 Indo-Pacific foreign ministers, the absence of China will be all too conspicuous. France’s...
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The world food crisis is about to get worse
Six months of fighting between Russia and Ukraine — two farming powerhouses — has plunged a teetering global food system into full-blown catastrophe, leaving millions of people facing starvation. The...
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Britain’s ‘emerging market’ crisis
Timothy Ash is an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House and a senior sovereign strategist at Bluebay Asset Management. For just a minute, imagine a country that has been...
View ArticleChina ditches EU chief Michel’s speech at top trade show
Beijing canceled European Council President Charles Michel, after he planned to slam Russia’s “illegal war” in a pre-recorded speech at a high-level trade expo in Shanghai last week. The EU chief’s...
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West plays a tired, old tune on matching China’s Belt and Road
BALI, Indonesia — Here we go again. The EU and the U.S. teamed up at the G20 summit in Bali to pledge for the umpteenth time that they were not going to be outdone by Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road...
View Article‘Frequent flyer’ UK MPs rack up £450,000 of foreign trips via backbench groups
LONDON — A small cluster of British MPs are making foreign visits collectively worth tens of thousands of pounds every year, paid for by private companies or overseas governments with dubious human...
View ArticleProtests over food and fuel surged in 2022 — the biggest were in Europe
Last September, Italians in Rome, Milan and Naples burned their energy bills in a coordinated protest against soaring prices. In October, thousands took to French streets to decry government inaction...
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Pacific heights: With AUKUS, Britain finds new place in the world at last
SAN DIEGO — In 1958, America shared the secret technology which enabled Britain to deploy nuclear-powered submarines for the first time. This week, the two countries joined forces with a third power...
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Why Western democracy faces a nightmare made online
In 2024 — for the first time ever — the U.S., the U.K. and the EU will hold major elections in the same calendar year. Dozens of other countries, including India and potentially Ukraine, are also...
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David Cameron is the smiling face of Chinese interests in the Indo-Pacific
This story was originally published on October 18, 2023. LONDON — It is a multibillion-dollar plan to build a metropolis in the Indo-Pacific which critics fear may one day act as a Chinese military...
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David Cameron’s controversial link with a China-loving ex-MEP
LONDON — As Westminster debated the wisdom — or otherwise — of David Cameron’s return to frontline politics this week, one former colleague was in no doubt. “Cameron is in the right place at the right...
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David Cameron’s foreign policy record rated
LONDON — He was prime minister for six years — and now he’s back, as the U.K.’s foreign secretary. So what can David Cameron’s record in No. 10 Downing Street tell us about the approach he will take...
View ArticleIsrael won’t pick Hamas’ successors in Gaza, top official says
TEL AVIV — Israel doesn’t want to end up deciding who rules Gaza after Hamas but is liaising closely with its allies on the future of the coastal enclave, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM. LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the...
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David Cameron downplayed Chinese role in controversial $1.4B port project
LONDON — U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron will be grilled in parliament over new footage showing he sought to downplay China’s role in a controversial port development in Sri Lanka. The...
View ArticleChina has changed since David Cameron’s ‘golden era,’ Rishi Sunak says
HAMPTON COURT PALACE, England — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says China has changed since David Cameron’s “golden era” of close economic ties with the nation. Sunak was speaking at the government’s...
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China’s Xi goes full Stalin with purge
Something is rotten in the imperial court of Chairman Xi Jinping. While the world is distracted by war in the Middle East and Ukraine, a Stalin-like purge is sweeping through China’s ultra-secretive...
View ArticleEU’s courtship of Indo-Pacific gets cold shoulder from big powers
BRUSSELS — Europe planned to get dozens of Indo-Pacific foreign ministers to Brussels for talks on Friday, with the EU eager to prove its relevance in a region increasingly under pressure from an...
View ArticleEU proposes sanctions on Chinese firms for helping Russia
The European Union is for the first time planning to sanction companies in mainland China, and in other countries including Turkey, India and Serbia, for helping Russia circumvent sanctions and buy...
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How China ended up financing the Houthis’ Red Sea attacks
China is unwittingly helping Iran choke off ship traffic in the Red Sea, impairing global trade flows and damaging Beijing’s own interests in the process, Western intelligence officials say. China’s...
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