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Airlines use empty planes to avoid wasting space at airports

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6 months ago

January 8, 2022

Many efforts have been made to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, when “higher values go up”, the result can be questionable. For example, there are airlines operating completely empty flights.

Cause? Don’t miss out on airport seats.

Prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, the European Union (EU) required that Airlines operate 80% of their scheduled flights, at the risk of losing their seats at airports to other companies. Although this percentage has dropped to 50%, demand is still insufficient in 2021.

According to the Belgian magazine BulletinGerman airline Lufthansa performed 18,000 empty flights this winter alone. This is motivated by an EU rule that requires companies to operate at least half of their scheduled flights in order to maintain their seats at airports.

Lufthansa has already cut 33,000 flights due to worldwide travel cancellations promoted by the Omicron variant. Therefore, the airline, as well as government agencies, have asked the EU to review the measures and take into account their impact on the environment.

While favorable climate exceptions have been found in almost all other parts of the world during the pandemic, the EU does not allow it in the same way.

Disse Carsten Spohr, CEO of Lufthansa.

Carsten Spohr, CEO of Lufthansa

Belgium's Mobility Minister Georges Gilkine has also asked the EU to review the measure as Brussels airlinesowned by the Lufthansa group accounts for 3,000 out of 18,000 empty flights.

Despite the calls, Euronews notes that the European Transport Commission has already announced that it will not reduce the percentage of flights that must comply with the airline. This is because the current decline is more than enough for regulators.

It should be noted that both the EU and Lufthansa are committed to halving their carbon footprint over the next decade.

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G20 summit: Draghi says Putin’s personal involvement ruled out

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7 hours ago

June 29, 2022

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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Tuesday that the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the next G20 summit in Bali was ruled out by the Indonesian presidency of the body.

At the summit of the group of seven most industrialized countries of the world (G7), which ended this Tuesday in Germany, they asked about The Kremlin’s announcement that Putin would attend the Bali summit in November, Draghi said that Indonesian President Joko Widodo ruled out the possibility.

Widodo “was categorical: he [Putin] not to come. What could happen – I don’t know what will happen, but what it could happen, maybe it’s remote interference“said Draghi, whose the country will hand over the G20 presidency to Indonesia in Bali.

The information has not been This was stated by the head of the Indonesian state, Joko Widodo. who will meet on Tuesday in Kyiv with his Ukrainian counterpart in an attempt to achieve a ceasefire in the conflict caused by the Russian invasion.

Joko Widodo, who attended Monday’s G7 summit in Germany, is already on his way to Kyiv, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said. accompanies the head of state in a video message.

After a visit to Ukraine and meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, The Indonesian leader is heading to Russia, where he will meet with Putin on Thursday, becoming the first Asian leader to visit the two countries since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

Before leaving on Sunday, Widodo said he was going to ask Zelensky and Putin an immediate ceasefire and the search for a peace agreement through dialogue.

in spite of pressure from countries such as the US, Canada and Australia to keep Putin out of the G20 summit from 11 to 13 November.on the island of Bali, Indonesia still retains its invitation to the Russian leader.

In April, the President of Indonesia, publicly known as Jokowi, sent Zelensky a G20 invitation and said Indonesia was ready to “contribute to the peace effort”.

In the past decade, Russia has been excluded from the group of industrialized countries then known as the G8, renamed the G7 after the 2014 invasion of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula.

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“War will end only when Ukrainians surrender,” Moscow says – Observer

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15 hours ago

June 28, 2022

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Russia announced on Tuesday that it would end its offensive in Ukraine, launched more than four months ago, only when the Kyiv authorities and the Ukrainian army surrender and accept “all Russian conditions.”

“The Ukrainian side may end [a guerra] during the dayThis was stated by the official representative of the Kremlin (President of Russia) Dmitry Peskov, whose words are quoted by the French news agency AFP.

For this, according to Peskov, it is enough that the Kyiv authorities ordered the “nationalist detachments” and Ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms and that “all the conditions set by Russia” be met.

“Then it will all be over in one day,” a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters in Moscow.

Peskov reacted to the appeal of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the leaders of the G7. do everything to end the war before the end of the yeardue to the harsh winter in Ukraine.

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The leaders of the seven most industrialized countries (Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom) and the European Union (EU) conclude their meeting on Tuesday in Elmau in southern Germany ahead of the summit. NATO in Madrid.

No deadline or timetable has been set by the Russian side for ending what Moscow officially calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, Peskov said.

“We are guided by the statements of our president,” he said.

Peskov again assured thatspecial operation going according to plan“.

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NATO will strengthen troops in Eastern Europe and identify Russia as the main threat

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23 hours ago

June 28, 2022

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At the Madrid summit, NATO will identify Russia as its biggest and most immediate threat and must approve the strengthening of high readiness forces and military personnel in Eastern Europe.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference in Brussels that the leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries hope to reach an agreement in Madrid this week. to increase the high readiness force to more than 300,000 soldiers, as well as to strengthen the battalions stationed in Eastern Europe.

In Madrid, the Atlantic Alliance for Defense and Military Cooperation between European and North American countries, Russia should also be identified as the biggest and most immediate threat to NATO member states in the organization’s new strategic concept, this will be adopted at the summit, Stoltenberg said.

Strategic Concept, one of the key documents of NATO, outlines the security issues facing the organization and outlines political and military priorities develop to resist them.

The Madrid summit is taking place in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and will update NATO’s strategic concept for the last decade in Lisbon in 2010, which was then marked by an intention to move closer from the Atlantic to an alliance with Russia.

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