Category: World

Dublin, 15 October 2025 — Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon TD, has announced the commencement of advance payments under the 2025 Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) and Complementary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS), with €510.9 million set to be distributed to 110,499 farmers starting Thursday, 16 October. The payments, […]

Yerevan, 15 October 2025 — Finnish Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Elina Valtonen has concluded a high-level visit to Armenia, reaffirming the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s commitment to supporting peace, reconciliation, and democratic development in the South Caucasus. During her visit, Valtonen held bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Foreign […]

The surge was driven by continued human emissions, more wildfire activity and weakened absorption by land and ocean “sinks” – a development that threatens to create a vicious climate cycle. Tripling since the 1960s The WMO’s latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that CO₂ growth rates have tripled since the 1960s, accelerating from an annual average […]

The scenes have become grimly familiar: Russian tanks rolling into Georgia in 2008, the seizure of Crimea in 2014, the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian military jets violating European airspace, and now mysterious drone sightings closing airports across Europe. While these may seem like disconnected events, in reality they are but chapters in a […]

Hanna Tetteh, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, said that while some progress has been made toward implementing a UN-backed political roadmap, divisions between the House of Representatives and the High Council of State continue to block key steps needed ahead of long-awaited national elections. “The two institutions have yet to achieve this objective,” Ms. […]

🏢 Business South Africa Urges Export Diversification Amid U.S. Tariff PressureSouth Africa is calling for a strategic shift in its export portfolio following the imposition of a 30% tariff by the United States on key goods. The move threatens tens of thousands of jobs and has prompted government officials to encourage businesses to explore alternative […]

When we hear the word “twins”, we tend to think of two identical people who share physical traits, and perhaps certain behaviours or quirks. However, in the world of technology this word has a different meaning. It refers to something both revolutionary and still relatively underexplored: digital twins. A digital twin is a virtual replica […]

What if the biggest untapped resource in European agriculture is not technology or funding – but the women already working in the sector? At 34, Albertine Ekkels from the Netherlands found herself torn between daily life on a dairy farm and her dream of starting a business. “The biggest challenge for me was time,” she […]

You might think honeybees are thriving – after all, the honey industry is growing and its bees are well looked after by beekeepers. But not all honeybees live in hives. Across Europe, colonies still live in the wild, nesting in tree cavities and other natural spaces, just as their ancestors did for millions of years. […]

Agenda item 4.1. WTO Reform – Report by the Facilitator The UK supports the work of Ambassador Ølberg; we welcome the report and we support his engagement with the G20 process. We welcome also the focus on MC14 as a reform Ministerial Conference and the UK stands ready to support the process as needed and […]