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Croatia asked the Hungarian ambassador in Zagreb to explain recent statements by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which the Croatian foreign ministry said “unnecessarily disrupt our good neighbourly relations” on Tuesday. In an interview with Hungarian state radio, Orbán said...

The central bank of Romania has increased its key interest rate to 3.75% from 3% to contain inflation. The 0.75% increase is the highest since February 2008, when the key rate was raised by 1%. Tuesday’s decision is the sixth...

Defence Minister Ben Wallace has promised that the UK will help Poland if it decides to deliver Soviet fighter jets to Ukraine, The Guardian reports. Poland was already preparing to transfer 28 MiG-29 jets familiar to Ukraine’s pilots in March via...

The Czech Republic will tighten passport checks on refugees and only grant aid to those fleeing war that have crossed the Ukraine border, the interior ministry announced following an influx of Roma people with dual Hungarian-Ukrainian citizenship. Czech authorities are...

Hungary has run out of available grid connection capacity to connect weather-dependent power plants, disappointing Hungarian solar power developers and investors. MAVIR, the transmission system operator, set the amount of weather-dependent generating capacity able to be accommodated in the electricity...

Portugal’s judiciary police on Tuesday confirmed it searched Setúbal town hall, the Municipal Line of Support for Refugees and the Association of Eastern Emigrants (Edinstvo) as part of an investigation into improper access of personal data involving two Russian citizens....

The head of Spain’s national intelligence centre (CNI) Paz Esteban was fired on Tuesday after acknowledging the agency had spied on the regional leader of Catalonia and over a dozen other separatist activists and politicians by hacking their cell phones....

The priority of Italy and Europe is to put an end to the massacres and achieve peace in Ukraine, Prime Minister Mario Draghi told President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday as part of his three-day trip, the...

Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network that took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of Russia-Ukraine war, the United States, Britain, Canada, Estonia and the European Union said on Tuesday (10 May).

A new Brexit Freedoms Bill should end the supremacy of European law by ensuring EU law can be changed quickly the government announced on Tuesday as it unveiled the new laws it plans to take through parliament in the coming...

Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin has urged UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to abandon the Northern Ireland Protocol amid reports that London could be preparing to take unilateral action. On Tuesday (10 May), The Times reported that the government was set to...

The defence capability of the Nordic countries would be strengthened if Sweden and Finland chose to join NATO and if both countries had common defence planning within the NATO framework, Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist told Radio Ekot Tuesday. “Of course,...

Schools will teach national security skills and public spirit, Lithuania’s education and defence ministries have announced. Both ministries prepared a joint project for pupils in grades five to 10 with a strong practical focus on national defence skills and public...

Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Tuesday revealed the restructuring of his cabinet, including new additions, after two ministers resigned on Monday. Former Agriculture Minister Elisabeth Köstinger and Economy Minister Margarete Schramböck, both allies of ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, resigned abruptly on Monday (9 May), according...

Member states could agree on a Russian oil embargo this week, European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune told news channel LCI on Tuesday. Brussels wants all EU member states to agree on an embargo on Russian oil and is even considering...

Two in three Bulgarians fear Russia will use missile and bomb strikes on sites in Bulgaria, while more than half fear Russia could occupy it, a nationally representative sociological survey by the ESTAT agency on behalf of the Workshop for...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he understands that Slovakia cannot afford to immediately cut its Russian oil and gas supplies but warned of the country’s dependence in a speech before the Slovak National Council on Tuesday. Slovakia is one of...

Countries siding with Russia or abstaining from voting against the country in the UN should not be “punished”, European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen told a Europe Day seminar in Helsinki on Monday. The Finnish commissioner also said that...

North Rhine-Westphalia – or NRW, as many of its 18 million inhabitants call it – is Germany’s most populous region, and it will elect a new regional parliament this Sunday (15 May 2022). Due to its size, the results come...

Denmark has voiced its opposition to changing EU Treaties, just weeks ahead of a crucial referendum on its defence opt-out after Brussels hinted it could change treaties, so unanimity on issues like common defence policy is no longer needed. The...