Issued on: 02/06/2022 – 21:27 Poland will only receive the money from its 35.4-billion euro ($38 billion) post-Covid economic recovery package if it carries out rule of law reforms, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. She said the EU’s approval of the plan announced on Wednesday was “important” but only “a
Since China launched the Belt and Road initiative in 2013, the project has come under a lot of criticism for funding polluting activities overseas. That’s started to change with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent pledge to stop supporting foreign coal projects. In the past ten months, top government departments have released three documents laying out
India has denied a request by Japan to allow an Air Self-Defense Force plane to collect aid supplies for Ukrainian refugees, a lawmaker said Thursday, derailing Tokyo’s plan for the flight later this month. Under the original schedule, a C-2 transport plane was supposed to pick up relief items such as blankets stockpiled by a
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” There was a sensation that the international community had surged in, taken over the action and overridden the existing regional system and local methods to determining and attending to needs after catastrophes,” said Luke Ebbs, the Vanuatu director for Save the Children.After Harold, many of those same logistics were coordinated by the Vanuatu Skills
