June, 2022

• 7 June

  Government bars Hungarian municipalities, SMEs from energy price cap

  

  Municipalities and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) will no longer be able to enjoy the capped utility bills now exclusively available to households, Minister of Economic Development Márton Nagy announced Sunday morning on the public radio. The government has decided to backtrack on an earlier decision from the end of …

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• 7 June

  Erdogan wants Swedish PM to fire defence minister

  

  Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson should dismiss Defence Minister Peter Hullqvist, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the newspaper Expressen reported on Saturday. Erdogan’s demand is based on a speech Hulqvist gave at a party 10 years ago where he celebrated the Kurdistan Workers’ People, PKK, and its imprisoned leader …

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• 7 June

  Austria releases oil stocks after refinery malfunction

  

  A technical issue at oil giant OMV’s Schwechat refinery on Saturday forced the government to release strategic gasoline stocks while OMV considers what to do about its investments in Russia. The government announced a release of 112,000 tonnes of petrol and 56,000 tonnes of diesel. The release will cover a …

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• 7 June

  ‘Submission to Russia’: Macron slams challengers ahead of June elections

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron criticised his opponents, leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and far-right Marine Le Pen, labelling their political projects as being about “disorder and submission,” in his first press interview since his re-election on Friday. With France’s legislative elections due to take place on 12 and 19 June, Macron took …

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• 7 June

  Turkey’s Nordic demands spark Western Balkan déjà vu

  

  Turkey’s move to pressure Sweden and Finland into extraditing alleged “terrorists” they harbour is a method Ankara used for several years against countries in the Western Balkans, including EU candidate countries, under the idle gaze of Brussels. While Turkey wields investment and aid as a sword of Damocles over the …

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• 7 June

  SOS: Is The Pentagon Losing the U.S. to China?

  

  “We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion.” — Nicolas Chaillan, former first Chief Software Officer for the Air Force, who resigned in protest over the Pentagon’s slow pace of technological …

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• 7 June

  Iranian Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian To Visit Turkey

  

  Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amirabdollahian will pay a visit to Turkey on Monday, June 6. The upcoming trip will mark the top Iranian diplomat’s first visit to neighboring Turkey after taking office in August 2021. Istanbul is also going to host a trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of …

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• 7 June

  Food Security Now Top Priority For G20 Cooperation

  

  In just over two months, the world food situation has gone from bad to worse. Calls to not panic fell on deaf ears, even as the Ukrainian military put up stiff opposition to the Russian onslaught. If Ukraine somehow wins the war, it will be decades before its economy and …

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• 7 June

  Armenia Limits Bioweapons Cooperation With US Amid Russian Pressure

  

  Armenia’s government has said it will no longer share with the United States samples of biological pathogens and data on disease outbreaks, amid a Russian campaign raising suspicions of American biological laboratories across the post-Soviet space. On June 2, the government announced that it was amending a 2010 agreement between …

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• 7 June

  Iranian supreme leader says Tehran took oil from Greek tankers

  

  Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Iran took oil from two Greek tankers last month in the Arabian Gulf. Helicopter raids were launched in retaliation for Greece’s part in the US taking crude from an Iranian-flagged tanker in the Mediterranean Sea because of sanctions on the Islamic …

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