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The Jarinje border crossing has reopened for movement from Serbia into north Kosovo after a 24-day blockade, a situation that arose following the Serb paramilitary terrorist attack in Banjska, while residents of villages along the border report some difficulties in...

Slovenia will reintroduce Police checks at the border with Croatia and Hungary from Saturday for at least ten days due to heightened security risks amid organised crime and the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. According to law enforcement...

UK military experts will be training Ukrainians in the Romanian bases next year, the British ambassador to Bucharest, Andrew Noble, said at a press conference at the end of his mandate on Thursday. The diplomat highlighted the very dynamic bilateral...

Polish President Andrzej Duda will begin consultations with parliamentary parties on forming a new government after Sunday’s elections saw a merger of the opposition do better than Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (PO), the...

Almost four-fifths of the population does not trust Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, according to a new survey published by CVVM agency. In terms of distrust, about 77% of Czechs distrust Fiala, which is the lowest number among any top...

US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy on 19 October discussed Washington's continued military support for Kyiv's drive to evict Russian forces, with the Ukrainian leader expressing thanks for supplying long-range missiles.

Maltese authorities have been called on to stop fostering a hostile climate for journalists, end the culture of impunity, and accelerate legal proceedings to bring to justice all those involved in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia by European Parliament...

Portuguese Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho and his Kuwaiti counterpart, Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber al-Sabah, agreed on Thursday on the importance of protecting the people of Gaza and sending humanitarian aid there. Recently, the minister has held several telephone and face-to-face...

Spain’s future government should agree to hold a ‘referendum like the one in Scotland’ in 2014, Catalonia’s regional prime minister, Pere Aragonès of the separatist ERC party, told the Spanish senate on Thursday. In a confident yet defiant tone, Aragonès...

The Dutch Labour Party and the Greens apologised on Thursday after receiving a lot of criticism for supporting a parliament motion that underlined Israel’s right to self-defence in its conflict with Palestine. The motion, which had been submitted by conservative...

Hundreds of French wine producers blocked the motorway at the Spanish border and unloaded lorries carrying Spanish cava juice, destroying the contents and pouring wine across the border in a protest for government support against cheap alcoholic beverages from abroad....

The government in Vienna will convene a crisis meeting on Friday morning to discuss the Hamas-Israel conflict, and the conflict’s impact on security in Austria. In the face of the “drastic development of the security situation in the Middle East,...

Repatriation deals with third countries are the game changer that will help EU countries reduce the number of migrants, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz claimed on Thursday while hitting out at right-wing leaders who “claim they can expel migrants with tough...

Global Encryption Day (21 October) spotlights the importance of end-to-end encryption in our digital lives. Encryption must be celebrated, not weakened, as could be the case through the European Commission's proposal to combat online child sexual abuse.

Media investigations have revealed how European companies continued to provide hardware and services to a massive new gas project in Siberia, despite Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its war in Ukraine. The next round of EU sanctions must put an end to this, write Oleh Stavinsky and Zoe Reiter.

Wages should be based on social contribution, rewarding low-paid posts in care, charity work or the health sector, says a new global report on in-work poverty by the UN's poverty expert. And capping salaries in fossil-fuels, pesticides and tobacco.

US President Joe Biden asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel's defence chief told his troops to be ready to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy the Palestinian militant group.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov confirmed on Thursday that there is interest in the sale of Lukoil Neftochim Burgas, which is the largest refinery in the Balkans and is managed by the Russian company Lukoil through its company in Switzerland – Litasco.

President Zuzana Čaputová refused Robert Fico’s nominee for the position of environment minister, meaning he will have to come up with an alternative if he wants to meet his goal of attending the European Council Summit on 26-27 October. 

Representatives of energy-intensive industries have urged the government to decide on subsidies for electricity prices, which, while strongly discouraged by economists, will be the point of discussion in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s discussions with government leaders.