Other

BBC World Service South Asia

World Business Report

Factual: Money

The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC

The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service East Asia

World Business Report: First broadcast 02/05/2022 14:32 GMT : EU energy ministers hold emergency meeting on phasing out Russian supplies

Bulletins

EU energy ministers hold emergency meeting on phasing out Russian supplies

First broadcast 02/05/2022 14:32 GMT 

First broadcast 02/05/2022 14:32 GMT : EU energy ministers hold emergency meeting on phasing out Russian supplies

BBC World Service - World Business Report, EU energy ministers hold emergency meeting on phasing out Russian supplies

The bloc is trying to agree on a more harmonised approach to the matter.

Today, the EU is attempting to agree on a harmonised approach to the continuing issue of oil and gas imports from Russia. Member states' energy ministers are holding an emergency meeting. Sam Fleming, the Financial Times' bureau chief in Brussels, tells us what was on their agenda. Meanwhile in Berlin, India's PM Narendra Modi has arrived for a meeting with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz. Yeshi Seli, a journalist in New Delhi, says it's happening at a time when India is under immense Western pressure to reduce its ties to Russia. Elsewhere, Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has announced a hike to the country's minimum wage. Kenyan analyst Churchill Ogutu describes how the news has been received in the country. The BBC's Theo Leggett has a chat with Henrik Fisker, founder of battery powered vehicle company Fisker, about how he believes there's plenty of room in the electric car market for his firm to exist alongside Elon Musk's Tesla. In the last day we've learned that the streaming giant Netflix has cancelled development on Pearl - the animated series about a young girl inspired by influential women in history - that was being produced as part of a deal with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Julian Aquilina, a senior TV analyst at the media research firm, Enders Analysis, explains why the company is having to take a serious look at its budget for original content.

(Image: French Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili addresses the press during the Special European Energy Ministers Council, Credit: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

World Business Report

First broadcast 02/05/2022 14:32 GMT : EU energy ministers hold emergency meeting on phasing out Russian supplies

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service South Asia

About BBC World Service