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Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Thursday (11 November) said strongman Alexander Lukashenko would not follow through on threats to cut off gas supplies to Europe over an escalating conflict with the EU.

The EU delegation in Tirana has spoken of the importance of the rule of law and the implementation of binding judicial decisions, following a court ruling to suspend operations at two hydropower plants in the north of the country. The...

“The great people of Serbia and Kosovo have overcome tremendous obstacles in their pursuit of economic normalisation. The agreements my administration brokered (in Washington, on 4 September, 2020) are historic and should not be abandoned, many lives are at stake,”...

The Sobranje (parliament) session to undertake a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was postponed indefinitely due to a lack of quorum. After several delays, Deputy Parliament Speaker Fadil Zendeli said deliberations could not start with just 60 of...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass joined those who claim the current crisis in BiH is extremely dangerous and that it is necessary to stop the actions of the Republika Srpska (Serb entity, RS) authorities which could result in the country’s...

The Serbian Chamber of Commerce opened a mission on Wednesday (10 November) in Jerusalem to foster economic ties between Serbia and Israel, emphasising companies’ cooperation in innovation, technology, scientific knowledge, and research, the Chamber said. Chamber president Marko Čadež said...

Environment Minister Andrej Vizjak, a close aide of the Slovenian prime minister, could be on his way out after a junior partner in the minority government said it no longer supported him following statements he made in a leaked conversation...

The opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Green-Left Bloc announced they would form an inquiry commission to look into the absorption of EU funding, following a scandal dubbed Software in which Gabrijela Žalac, a member of the presidency of...

A recent law that sets up a scheme to compensate consumers for high energy prices also introduced a tax of 80% on additional income generated by electricity producers. However, the tax applies only to green energy producers, as fossil fuel...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) will investigate one of Slovakia’s largest cyber projects worth over €50 million, which the previous government of Peter Pellegrini executed. The Minister for Investment, Regional Development and Informatisation Veronika Remišová (For the People) confirmed...

Spain’s left-wing government has signed an agreement with the Commission detailing all operational instruments of the country’s national recovery plan, a formal step which will allow Madrid to request, shortly, the first half-yearly “tranche” of €10 billion from EU resources.

Russia traded barbs with Western members of the UN Security Council on Thursday (11 November) over a crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, with Russia's deputy UN envoy suggesting his European colleagues have "masochist inclinations."

The European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament has the pleasure to invite you to an online conference on “Maritime Security and the Blue Economy – Unexploded munitions and chemical residues in the sea – in search for...

The government will fix the price of 95 octane petrol and diesel at HUF480 (€1.34) per litre, the minister in charge of the prime minister’s office, Gergely Gulyás, announced on Thursday (11 November), Telex reported. The measure will enter into force on 15 November...

As Poland celebrated its Independence Day, the annual march took place in Warsaw with some 150,000 people in attendance, despite a ban imposed by the city mayor and maintained by the District Court. Some claim that the Independence March promotes...

“Municipalities and metropolitan cities will administer almost €50 billion as implementers of the national recovery plan,” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Thursday (11 November) in a speech at the 38th assembly of the association of town and city councils....

Tech startup Wolt, founded in 2014 and known for its food delivery app will be acquired by US delivery giant DoorDash, it was announced on Tuesday. The move was praised by the business community and across the political spectrum, including by...

Tensions over the UK’s potential triggering of the Northern Ireland protocol’s Article 16 are easing, for now, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin has said following concerns that such a move could lead to a trade war with the EU. London...

The war of words between UK ministers and France’s EU affairs minister, Clément Beaune, shows no sign of abating after Beaune told BFM that “Brexit has an impact on the British economy more negative than COVID, it’s written black and...

“I believe [multilateralism] is the rightful place for the United States of America,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in front of US Vice-President Kamala Harris in his opening address at the Paris Peace Forum, which opened on Thursday. The vice-president...