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After almost two years of big energy bills dropping onto European doorsteps, the EU has proposed changes to its electricity market to ease pressure on consumers and boost renewable power production. The proposed reform - unveiled on 14 March - introduces new protections for households and small businesses as well as giving them more choices around their electricity contracts. It also supports more stable, long-term contracts between EU industries or EU governments and renewable power producers to boost cheap,  green power production  and limit volatile prices caused by fossil fuels. "The current electricity market design has delivered an efficient, well integrated market over many decades, but tight global supply and  Russia ’s manipulation of our energy markets has left many consumers facing massive increases in their  energy bills ,” EU energy commissioner Kadri Simson explained last week. “We are today proposing measures that will enhance the stability and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, sending a warning to the West as it steps up military support for Ukraine. Putin said the move was triggered by Britain’s decision last week to provide Ukraine with armour-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. Tactical nuclear weapons are intended for use on the battlefield. They have a short range and a low yield compared with much more powerful nuclear warheads fitted to long-range missiles.  On Sunday, Ukraine called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council, with Ukrainian Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov saying the Kremlin had taken Belarus "nuclear hostage".  It is a "step towards the internal destabilisation of the country," he added.  He didn’t say how many nuclear weapons Russia would keep in Belarus, which shares a long border with Ukraine and NATO members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.  The US government believes...