Skyrocketing energy prices have prompted some Europeans to stockpile basic forms of heating and buy stoves to keep warm Natural gas prices across Europe have quadrupled this year. Looking ahead to winter and imagining the new heights energy values may hit, consumers are starting to opt for an alternative (old) form of heating – wood. Huge demand for…

European agro-producers won’t be able to compete if the country is admitted to the bloc, the deputy agriculture minister says Ukraine’s admission to the EU could be perilous for the bloc’s agricultural sector, Warsaw’s deputy agriculture minister, Michal Kolodziejczak, told Polish broadcaster RMF FM on Saturday. His comments came in response to this week’s decision…

Trade between Russia and China has continued to accelerate this year after hitting a historic high in 2022, with both exports and imports surging at double-digit pace since the beginning of the year, Chinese customs data showed on Wednesday.