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WARSAW (Reuters) – Germany said on Wednesday it was receiving less oil but still had enough supplies after Poland found a leak in the Druzhba pipeline that takes crude from Russia to Europe, which Warsaw said may have resulted from an accident rather than sabotage…. …Drone footage showed a black slick of oil from the underground pipeline spreading across farmland at the spill site, surrounded by fire engines and other emergency teams. “The security of supplies in Germany is currently guaranteed,” an Economy Ministry spokesman told Reuters. He added that “the refineries in Schwedt and Leona are still receiving crude...

The clean energy transition and other initiatives to decarbonise Europe’s economy will represent 25% of EU spending under a seven-year EU budget plan put forward by the European Commission on Wednesday (2 May). Another key aspect is whether the EU will commit to stop funding fossil fuel projects like gas pipelines, which environmentalists claim risk locking Europe into unnecessary infrastructure. “I’m not sure it’s reached the upper layers of the Commission yet,” Gaventa said. Other parts of the budget could prove controversial, like a proposal to allocate 20% of revenue from carbon trading to the EU budget, as well as...

Communists Still Run Eastern Europe John LeBoutillier Saturday, May 7, 2005 Often things look differently years after the fact. The perspective of time gives us a better, clearer view. As President Bush flies around Europe this week - including a controversial visit to Moscow - we need to take a look back at the supposed revolution(s) that swept Eastern Europe 15 years ago. At that time, we all hailed the peaceful events that seemingly brought down the communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain as 'miracles.' The ending of these murderous regimes - without riots, mass killings and violence - was...

Sixteen nations sign on to rebuild Iraq; France holds back 12/6/2003 1:29 PM By: Associated Press ROME (AP) -- The United States has recruited 15 countries to help it rebuild Iraq, but the French are still refusing to take part in the effort. Paris and Washington differed vehemently over the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and the French are still refusing to have any official part in the Iraq reconstruction. Iraq's interim trade minister says the $2.4-billion deal would do for Iraq what the Marshall Plan did for Europe after World War II. The deal was signed in Rome Saturday by...

Rumsfeld: Reagan Legacy Present in Iraq Today By John D. BanusiewiczAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2003 – Former President Ronald Reagan's legacy is present in Iraq today, as many nations freed from the grasp of tyranny now are helping the coalition bring freedom to the Iraqi people, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today. Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., Rumsfeld named 19 of the 32 countries that now have military forces in Iraq -- Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova,...

Thirty governments have agreed to be named in public as supporters of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, and about 15 others are cooperating behind the scenes, the State Department said on Tuesday. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the basic criterion for inclusion of the published list was that the countries wanted to be publicly associated with the idea that Iraq has to be disarmed now. They are not necessarily providing any assistance to the U.S. war effort. The only allies known to be contributing offensive military forces are Britain and Australia, but the Danish government offered on Tuesday to...