The European Parliament has voted in favour of easing the EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence, or supply chain act, with a majority consisting mainly of conservatives and far-right groups, after a compromise between the European People's Party (EPP) and the Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens collapsed. Green and Social Democrat politicians accuse the EPP of "breaking the firewall". Commentators examine the vote and its consequences.
In the wake of the corruption scandal in Ukraine's energy sector, investigations into close associates of President Volodymyr Zelensky continue. The justice minister German Galushchenko and energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk have tendered their resignations. Commentators look at whether the country's control mechanisms and democracy are still functioning.
The Finnish tax authority has published a list of all citizens who earned more than 120,000 euros in taxable income last year. For the third year in a row, Mikko Kuusi, co-found of food delivery company Wolt, tops the list, having earned more than 80 million euros in 2024. The company's approximately 450,000 couriers deliver food orders in more than 1,000 cities across the world.
US President Donald Trump welcomed Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa to the White House in Washington on Tuesday. He praised the former head of the now disbanded terrorist militia HTS as a "strong leader" who could turn war-torn Syria into a successful country. The press reacts to the visit and the rapprochement between the two countries with surprise and admiration.
Climate protection targets are the main focus of the COP30 World Climate Conference which began in Brazil on Monday. UN Secretary-General António Guterres kicked off the conference with a call for stronger measures against climate change, stressing that every tenth of a degree of warming means more hunger, displacement and losses. Commentators discuss the challenges and ways to tackle them.
Just under eight months after the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, President Erdoğan's main political rival, Turkish prosecutors have charged him with offences that could carry a penalty of up to 2,430 years in prison. The charges include corruption and leading a criminal organisation. The arrest of the CHP politician last spring triggered mass protests across the country.
El-Fasher, capital of North Darfur State in Sudan, is in a catastrophic state following its capture at the end of October by RSF militia. There are reports that the RSF has murdered at least 1,500 civilians there within just three days, with more than 460 killings having been carried out at a hospital, according to the World Health Organisation. European media take the international community to task over its inaction.
The BBC is under fire again after the resignation of its Director General Tim Davie. US President Trump has now threatened to sue for one billion dollars in damages following allegations that the British broadcaster misleadingly edited a speech he gave shortly before the storming of the Capitol for one of its documentary programmes. What does the crisis say about the BBC and public service media?
After a pause of more than 30 years, nuclear weapons tests are once again under discussion in Washington and Moscow: Donald Trump has announced that the US will resume testing of nuclear weapons following claims from Russia that it had successfully tested two new nuclear-powered missile systems. Whether Trump was referring to nuclear warheads remains unclear. Putin responded by announcing that Russia would also examine its options for nuclear weapons tests.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from prison after around three weeks behind bars. A Paris court approved the 70-year-old's request for release pending appeal. Sarkozy described his time in prison as "very tough". He was convicted at the end of September in a trial over illegal campaign financing, but had lodged an appeal.
The conservative government in Lisbon wants to implement labour market reforms that would restrict workers' rights and the right to strike. For the first time since the sovereign debt crisis and the so-called "troika years" (2011-2014), the two major trade union confederations, CGTP and UGT, have now jointly called for a general strike.