The Scottish government will not renew the £10 million in funding it initially granted to local councils to support Ukrainian refugee resettlement, the Scotsman reported Jan. 5. The government distributed £10 million last year to Scotland’s regional co…
Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia has built a grain hopper wagon at its own facilities, adapted for transport on the so-called European gauge.
Source: Press service of Ukrzaliznytsia, reported by European Pravda
Details: The wagon is designed to…
Taoiseach of Ireland Leo Varadkar has stressed that EU leaders must agree on key decisions regarding Ukraine, especially financial support, as this would send a clear signal to the United States. [The Taoiseach is the leader of the government of Irelan…
More than one hundred leading European lawmakers prepared a joint letter of appeal to the US Congress calling for unblocking additional funding for Ukraine, which has become a subject of political controversy.
Source: European Pravda, citing Reuters
De…
Irish lawmakers are scheduled to approve proposals on Dec. 11 to significantly cut the amount of benefits offered to Ukrainian refugees who arrive in the future, The Irish Times reported. The proposed changes would reduce the welfare payments for Ukrai…
In August-October 2023, the amount of newly pledged aid to Ukraine from Western countries reached a historic low, down almost 90% compared to the same period in 2022.
Source: European Pravda, the results of a study conducted by the Kiel Institute for t…
Lithuania contributed 1 million euros ($1.08 million) to the Ukraine Solidarity Fund, a fund managed by the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) to help finance Ukraine’s reconstruction, as well as improve the current living conditions of Ukrainian…
Scotland is once again discussing independence and a return to the European Union. The government of the country has published the report Independent Scotland in the EU as part of the series of publications Building a Better Scotland.
The report consi…
It comes after Israel took issue with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar saying an “an innocent child who was lost has now been found” after Hamas released nine-year-old Irish-Israeli hostage Emily Hand.
Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, said the child had bee…
A poster from a PSNI awareness campaign about the new offences (Photo: /)The changes to the law create stand-alone offences of “up-skirting” and “down-blousing” – in other words, taking a picture up a woman’s skirt, or down their top.A new offence of “…