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Campaigners have launched legal action against the European Commission for including 30 gas projects in a list of priority energy infrastructure projects

All politicians need luck and Boris Johnson -- once described as a "greased piglet" for his uncanny powers of political escapology -- has had more than most in his career.

Budapest and Kyiv have traded harsh accusations in the last few days in the latest sign of a rapidly deteriorating relationship between the neighbours over Hungary’s stance on Russia. The latest round of acrimonious exchanges began when the recently re-elected...

The Albanian government provided the second-lowest amount of COVID-19 support to the needy in the region, according to the World Bank. In a report looking at the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-war price crisis from Russia’s invasion...

Veterans of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) clashed with police on Monday in Pristina as they protested an unsuccessful bill increasing the minimum wage without foreseeing a similar increase for their pensions as provided by the Constitution. The parliament of...

The US Office of Foreign Assets Control has put two high-ranking politicians from Bosnia-Herzegovina on the sanctions list for undermining the country’s 1995 peace agreement and democratic progress, N1 reported. The sanctions list now includes Marinko Čavara, the president of the Federation...

Serbia is the only country that will not advance on its EU path in June despite progress in that direction being in the country’s best interest, President Aleksandar Vučić said on Monday evening. Vučić told the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation that...

Passport controls at Austria’s internal Schengen border with Slovenia topped the agenda during talks between Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and her Austrian counterpart, Alexander Schallenberg, the first foreign official to visit the country since the new government took office. Austria...

Thousands of Croatian citizens could lose their driving licences under a proposed new road safety bill, the Coordination of Croatian Family Doctors (KoHOM) warned on Monday. The new bill, which the government has sent into second reading, stipulates that family...

The government plans to ask the European Commission for the disbursement of €3 billion from its recovery and resilience plan in October. Last week, the Romanian government sent the first payment request for recovery and resilience funds to the European...

Ukraine has requested the Bulgarian government to provide the country with heavy weapons to counter the Russian offensive in Donbas, according to a diplomatic note sent by Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria Vitaly Moskalenko on Friday made public on Monday. Ukraine...

The high share of nuclear power in Slovakia’s energy mix, the capacity of the transmission network and the negative perception of the population, are the main reasons for the slow development of renewable energies in Slovakia, an analysis published by...

The powerful leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jarosław Kaczyński, will soon leave the cabinet and his post as deputy prime minister, government spokesman Michał Dworczyk announced. Kaczyński, prime minister between 2006 and 2007 and the twin...

The war in Ukraine requires “enormous” care, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Monday, warning of an unpredictable international situation. De Sousa was speaking at the close of a debate as part of a book festival on the grounds of his palace...

Russia’s Ambassador to Italy, Sergey Razov, has been summoned by the Italian foreign ministry for comments criticising domestic media’s coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Saturday (4 June), the Russian embassy in Rome voiced its opposition to what...

Finland has delayed passing the law implementing the EU Whistleblower Directive for a second time, the justice ministry informed on Friday. The directive is meant to protect those who report breaches of the law, such as tax fraud, money laundering...

Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote triggered by his own party on Monday evening that may well have left his leadership fatally undermined. The vote, which was triggered on Sunday after 54 Tory lawmakers, 15% of the Conservative parliamentary party,...

The Dutch health ministry is sceptical of the German offer to relieve the long waiting lists for hospital care which have been exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although some 300 German hospitals could receive Dutch patients, NL Times reported....

Members of the Green party, the coalition partner of the ruling ÖVP called the party’s secretary-general “inhuman” and “racist” for her statements about Austria “suffering” from a high number of asylum applications. “A total of 16,000 asylum applications have already...

Following the scuppering of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s planned visit to Serbia due to Western Balkan countries refusing to let him fly over their airspace, he took a swipe at the EU and NATO and possibly showed support for...