A German court has cleared the way for the laying of a submarine power cable for a disputed gas extraction project off the North Sea island of Borkum. The Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court (OVG) in the northern German town of Lüneburg had already dismissed a complaint by the Environmental Action Germany (DUH) concerning the permit for a power cable to the planned extraction platform of the Dutch company ONE-Dyas. The court has now overturned a decision by the Administrative Court of Oldenburg, which had provisionally suspended certain exemptions from nature conservation law. These exemp...
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul dismissed speculation about possible territorial concessions by Ukraine for peace with Russia, after consultations with his EU counterparts on Monday. "Violence must not shift borders," Wadephul wrote on Monday evening on X. He said that Germany supports US President Donald Trump's goal of ending Russia's war against Ukraine. The result must be a just and lasting peace, he wrote. On Friday, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to negotiate a possible peace plan in the US state of Alaska for the Russian war in Ukraine that has lasted around ...