AFP/Strasbourg, France The European Union pushed ahead yesterday with an agreement that will allow Russia to continue to build a new gas pipeline to Europe, despite US warnings it posed a security…
Egypt plugs hub status as Shell, Eni, Exxon win energy concessions
CAIRO (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell, Eni, BP and Exxon Mobil were among the winners in one of Egypt’s largest ever oil and gas exploration tenders on Tuesday, as the country looks…
Ocean’s Monopoly: How Nations Use Science to Conquer the Sea
What if a country didn’t end at the coastline but would simply continue under water? A territory the size of a continent would come up – a territory uncontrolled and open for…
Italy PM calls for a fairer Europe
Reuters/Strasbourg Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has called for a less austere European Union more in tune with popular demands for economic growth, but he faced a barrage of criticism after his…
Natural gas plays major role in energy transition: Qatargas CEO
*Sheikh Khalid encouraged Indian government to create conducive environment for increased use of the clean fossil fuel Qatargas CEO Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa al-Thani has underscored the significance of liquefied natural gas…
How Greece’s PM hopes to solve his election riddle
Reuters /Athens Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been implementing his re-election strategy to the letter over the past six months, steering Greece out of a humiliating bailout and resolving a decades-old dispute…
Europe, please wake up before it is too late
By George Soros /Munich Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the…
A mixed economic bag in 2019
By Nouriel Roubini /New York After the synchronised global economic expansion of 2017 came the asynchronous growth of 2018, when most countries other than the United States started to experience slowdowns. Worries…
Energy bills set to rise as regulator ups cap
LONDON (Reuters) – Energy bills are set to rise for millions of households in Britain after the country’s energy regulator gave the green light to suppliers to increase bills by more than…
emocrats unveil clean energy initiative
Reuters/ Washington Rising Democratic star Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Senator Ed Markey have laid out the objectives of a Green New Deal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years,…