France to Invest $121.5Mln in Space Projects Over Next 2 Years, Macron Says
PARIS (Sputnik) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday pointed to the excessive competition in the European space industry and called for larger investments, noting that Paris would allocate 100 million More...
EU Gas Projects In Jeopardy After Bloc Moves to Prioritize Investment in Low-Carbon Alternatives
The construction of gas pipelines within the EU has been facilitated in the recent past by the bloc’s support for cross-border energy projects, meaning they can receive funding and fast-tracked permits from More...
How the UK Government is funnelling billions into fossil fuel projects abroad
On December 12 the Prime Minister will co-host an event with the UN Secretary-General convening global leaders to mark five years since the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, and to rally climate action More...
9 inspiring food-aid projects
Body: Emergency relief can be done in ways that go beyond sticking-plaster solutions. Frideswide O’Neill and Hazel Healy profile nine groups doing things differently… Food justice files Food More...
The cost of food vouchers is a drop in the ocean compared to these other Tory projects
The furore over the government’s refusal to support children over the holidays who normally receive free school meals (FSM) continues, with Conservative MPs under increasing pressure from their constituents to More...
‘Shameless self-promotion’: Piers Morgan attacks ‘gutless weasels’ in govt, projects new book onto parliament
Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan has projected a message from his new book onto the Houses of Parliament in protest at government ministers’ boycotting of his show due to his caustic critiques of their Covid-19 More...
‘We are not a vassal state’: Philippines’s Duterte won’t stop infrastructure projects with US-sanctioned Chinese firms
The Philippines will not be cowed by a US blacklist on Chinese companies and will continue doing business with the sanctioned firms, a spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte said, insisting Manila will not bow More...
India to ban Chinese firms from road projects as tensions mount over border dispute
Chinese companies will be barred from developing India’s roads and highways, the country’s transport minister has announced, as New Delhi and Beijing continue to lock horns over a territorial standoff. “We More...
France, Britain, Germany ‘Regret’ US Scrapping Sanctions Waivers on JCPOA-Related Projects in Iran
The United States announced on Wednesday it will terminate sanctions waivers that had allowed Russian, Chinese and European companies to carry out work at Iranian nuclear sites as part of the JCPOA nuclear deal. Sputnik More...
Big pharma steered public money away from pandemic research and into projects promising profit – watchdog
EU money intended for underfunded public-benefit research such as preparing for a pandemic has been diverted by the pharmaceutical industry into areas where it can make more money, according to a scathing new report. Officials More...
