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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said he cannot tell his country’s young people not to leave for a life abroad, but what is important is tackling exploitation and people trafficking and ensuring that some of those that go, come back....

Russia's defence ministry has said it has deployed mobile coastal defence missile systems on a northern Kuril island - part of a strategically located chain of islands that stretch between Japan and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has promised the Polish national football team a bonus of around €6 million for making to the knockout round at the football World Cup in Qatar, angering politicians and commentators alike. The World Cup in Qatar...

Doctors in Portugal were paid less in real terms for their life-saving work in 2020 compared to 2010, a report published on Monday states. The report, published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission...

Transport Minister Matteo Salvini and Industry Commissioner Adina-Ioana Valean penned an agreement on Monday to secure funding for a bridge connecting Sicily with the rest of Italy and the European continent. The Strait of Messina Bridge, which, if constructed, would...

Finland is still far behind the recently agreed EU target to boost gender balance in companies, despite having made considerable progress in increasing the number of women on corporate boards over the past decade. At the end of November, the...

EU leaders meet with their Western Balkans counterpart in Albania's capital Tirana on Tuesday (6 December)  to reassure the region of a future in the bloc amid fears of rising Russian and Chinese influence, but are expected to walk a fine line between maintaining a united front on enlargement and avoiding fallouts.

Almost three months of protests in Iran have left the clerical regime facing an existential challenge by shattering taboos and shaking its ideological pillars in a push for change that shows no sign of retreating.

The Schiphol Group has bought out a number of livestock farmers to own sufficient space and hence nitrogen emission rights to continue operating Schiphol and Lelystad Airport.

Four Belgian banks, an airline and a chemicals company are involved with Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, with chemicals company Solvay supplying the drone supplier of Israel’s military, a report published by the Don’t Buy Into Occupation, a coalition of...

The government’s plans to reform the criminal code have been clarified, with Green Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler announcing that drivers who drive beyond the speed limit could face on-the-spot vehicle confiscation. Two years ago, Gewessler announced that the government would...

State-owned power utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE), the largest domestic producer and seller of electricity on Slovenia’s wholesale market, has received a capital hike of almost half a billion from the state to shore up its liquidity amid major problems at its core hydro and coal generation facilities.

Around 300 people died in an attack on villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week blamed on the M23 rebel group, government minister Julien Paluku said on Monday (5 December).

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s socialist PSOE party could win the next Spanish general election set to take place in December 2023, a fresh poll published Monday predicts. According to the 40dB barometer for El País and private radio station Cadena...

European countries must continue supporting Ukraine with weapons even though there is a risk these may be smuggled back to the EU, the Czech interior ministry said, adding that the Kremlin continues to peddle its arms smuggling narrative to weaken...

Sudan's military and civilian leaders signed Monday (5 December) an initial deal aimed at ending a deep crisis caused by last year's military coup, prompting sceptical protesters to cry betrayal.

A Chadian court has handed jail terms of between two and three years to 262 people who were arrested after deadly protests in October, the public prosecutor said on Monday (5 December).

The EU accession process of the Western Balkans is not an exam you can cheat on as Greece did, and its importance has increased because of the geopolitical situation facing the region and the bloc, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama...

For the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal to succeed, a massive increase in political commitment is needed, write Janice Weatherley-Singh, Noor Yafai-Stroband, and Hilde Eggermont.

Remarks by Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe following the Eurogroup meeting of 5 December in Brussels.