Major processing plants are reportedly squeezing out smaller players for supplies from the sanctioned country China’s largest state-owned and private refineries are buying more Russian crude, driving up its price, and forcing smaller independent producers, known as ‘teapots’, to search for cheaper options, Reuters reported this week.

Systematically cutting off Berlin’s international partnerships and access to cheap energy may prove to be the country’s downfall By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described her recent visit to China as “more than shocking,” arguing that while Germany should not “decouple” from Beijing, it should no longer be Berlin’s most important…

Protesting against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, the CGT is warning the lights could go out at Cannes Film Festival The upcoming Cannes film festival, the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix and the Roland-Garros tennis tournament could see dark days this year, quite literally, after a top trade union  threatened to cut power to the…