Hundreds of Ukrainians in the UK on seasonal visas have ended up working on farms they describe as “akin to modern-day slavery,” the Guardian, which spoke to multiple people who had escaped from such farms, reported on Tuesday. A Ukrainian worker who escaped one of the farms described feeling like …
Read More »Number of EU country’s farms at risk of closure revealed
Nearly 100,000 Italian farms are on the verge of closure due to skyrocketing production costs brought about by the conflict in Ukraine, major farming association Coldiretti said in a report this week. According to the group, growing production costs far exceed what is being paid to farmers and breeders for …
Read More »Soaring gas prices in Western Europe down to mistaken reliance on wind farms, Russia on track for record exports in 2021 – Putin
Speaking as part of a keynote address at Russian Energy Week on Wednesday, Putin said that a fall in output from wind farms had meant electricity prices shot up, having a knock-on effect on demand for gas. Wind power makes up an increasingly large share of Europe’s energy generation, particularly …
Read More »The court denied the NBU in the cancellation of the arrest Kurchenko tank farms in Kherson
The national Bank has lost a court seizure of oil depot Kurchenko. The economic court of Kiev refused to the National Bank in the cancellation of the arrest of tank farms in Kherson, owned by businessman Sergey Kurchenko, which acted as collateral for the stabilization credit allocated to the liquidated …
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