Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 8. The European Wrestling Championships, currently underway in Bratislava, Slovakia, saw freestyle wrestlers join the competition on its second day, Trend reports. Azerbaijan’s wrestling team had a strong showing, with nine athletes taking to the mat. Two wrestlers secured spots in the final and will compete for gold tomorrow, while…
Shorouk Express European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, gathered in Paris on Thursday for a summit aimed at boosting Ukrainian security ahead of any potential ceasefire with Russia. During the meeting, European leaders will aim at finding a collective response to United States President Donald Trump’s intention to ease sanctions on Moscow as an…
[ad_1] In November, Google said it would conduct a “test” in eight European countries that would omit results from EU-based news publishers for a small percentage of users. The results are in, and the survey says the news has no meaningful monetary value for the company. But the “public experiment” was hardly done for scientific…
Shorouk Express Frightened by the prospect of US security disengagement and three years of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, European countries are debating reinstating compulsory military service to boost their defences in the face of Russian aggression. Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 caught Europe off guard, and fears about the strength of…
Shorouk Express 800 billion euro over four years to rearm Europe: this is the ambitious plan unveiled by Ursula von der Leyen on 4 March. The European Commission President’s announcement follows the US U-turn on support for Ukraine in the war against Russia, the reopening of US negotiations with Vladimir Putin and the humiliating Trump-Zelensky…
Shorouk Express Top European officials rushed to Washington as the United States and Russia move closer to a potential ceasefire in Ukraine. Germany’s national security adviser, Jens Plötner, traveled to Washington on Friday for urgent talks alongside his British counterpart, Jonathan Powell, and French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic adviser, Emmanuel Bonne. The three met with…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 11. The European Wrestling Championships continue in the Albanian capital Tirana, Trend reports with reference to the Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation. Today the first prize winners in women’s wrestling were determined. Representative of Azerbaijan Asmar Cankurtaran Asmar Cankurtaran (50 kg) won the bronze medal, defeating her opponent from Türkiye Songul Kavaz…
Shorouk Express Europeans are taking steps to boost their own industries, said Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher with SIPRI, “but the transatlantic arms-supply relationship has deep roots. Imports from the USA have risen and European NATO states have almost 500 combat aircraft and many other weapons still on order from the USA.” The report comes…
Shorouk Express Jean-Claude Trichet, the former head of the European Central Bank, told POLITICO that having a foreigner helm a major central bank was “in no way an obvious decision,” but that Carney’s “remarkable” reputation in central banking helped the appointment go through. The man who appointed him then, the U.K.’s former conservative Chancellor of…
Shorouk Express The data reveals that more than 110,000 Britons naturalised in EU countries between 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum, and 2023, according to the latest data on citizenship acquisition published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU. Another 11,000 are added if those who were naturalised in Norway (3,864) and Switzerland…
