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Two Kosovo war veterans, now leaders of a veterans association, have pleaded innocent on Thursday to charges of intimidating witnesses and obstructing justice, before a court in The Hague. Former chairman of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) War Veterans Association...

There is no reason for panic among Macedonian citizens regarding the price of the electricity during the forthcoming months, said the Energy Regulatory Commission of North Macedonia, meta.mk reported. The President of the Energy and Water Services Regulatory Commission Marko Bislimoski...

Severina, a Croatian pop singer, told EURACTIV’s partner, Jutarnji list, that she would not join Una TV after learning that that the family of Milorad Dodik was backing the new station. UNA TV is a new regional media project. The channel...

The majority of Serbian citizens are denied the right to dignified labour in terms of employment options, an adequate wage, protection of the unemployed, and secure employment, the Belgrade Center for Democracy Foundation said on Thursday. The Foundation stressed on...

Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said he had talked with Interior Minister Davor Božinović about the violent pushback of migrants from the Croatian border with BiH and expects a report to assess what happened. “Last night I immediately called Minister Božinović...

The government has asked the justice ministry to publish another new call to fill the country’s two top EU prosecutor positions. After a court reversed its decision to annul the original procedure, the latest move suggests the appointment procedure could drag...

Ireland dropped its opposition to an overhaul of global corporate tax rules on Thursday (7 October), agreeing to give up its prized 12.5% tax for large multinationals in a major boost to efforts to impose a minimum rate worldwide.

Digital education, encouraging collaboration and financial support to connect rural areas are among the actions still needed for rural areas to benefit from digital health opportunities.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief and former World Bank head and EU commissioner Kristalina Georgieva is fighting to keep her IMF job after a US law firm, WilmerHale, accused her of massaging figures in a Word Bank report, called Doing Business 2018, to make China look more investible than it was. Georgieva's lawyers rejected the report as "unsupportable", but the IMF board will hold talks on her future on Friday.

A US special-operations unit and a contingent of marines have been secretly operating in Taiwan to train military forces there, US officials said, part of efforts to shore up the island's defences, as concern regarding potential Chinese aggression mounts, the Wall Street Journal writes. The report came as Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen said Friday that it would "do whatever it takes to defend its freedom and democratic way of life".

Minister of Economy Richard Sulík (SaS/ECR) proposed on Wednesday to close employment offices. The goal is to lower government expenditure. Sulík added that the state should not find jobs for people and told them to look online instead.  In the...

Google warned Tamás Bodoky, the editor-in-chief of online news outlet Átlátszó on Thursday morning of a state-sponsored hacker attack on his Gmail account, the site reported. The same message was sent to András Lőke, investigative journalist, and Ádám Bihari, a reporter for HVG. ...

"We need more clarity from the Chinese ... on when they're going to peak out with emissions, what their plans are with coal-fired power generation in China," EU climate commissioner Frans Timmermans said at a conference Thursday, ahead of the 'Cop 26' climate summit at the end of the month. "We hope China will join us in this effort to have serious enough reductions," US climate envoy John Kerry added.

Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto will limit or completely stop the production of cars in all three Czech factories from 18 October till the end of the year. The company took the decision due to global chip shortages. Halt of...

Spain’s coalition government, formed by the socialist party (PSOE) and left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can), approved on Thursday the draft budget for 2022, with a strong accent on social policies and a “fair recovery” after the pandemic. The new...

The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights criticised Italian authorities for actions that “tarnish the reputation of Italy in the field of business and human rights and should be immediately addressed to protect the rights of individuals in highly...

Former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier unveiled his project to strengthen security by establishing a new public security ministry. According to Barnier, the insecurity of the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) party’s candidates is “the main failure” of Emmanuel Macron’s mandate. To remedy...

Ireland’s coalition government has fallen significantly behind opposition party Sinn Féin in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll. Sinn Féin now sits at 32%, ahead of the two largest government parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, by 10 and 12 points...

After Austrian Chancellor Kurz was caught in a controversy over his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal, the future of the Green-Conservative is up in the air, as leading Green politicians’ question whether Kurz is fit for office. “We can’t...

“I’d be happy if we managed in these trying times, a fresh start with new personalities,” said Armin Laschet, the leader of the conservative union CDU/CSU, on Thursday. Although he did not state that he would step aside, it is...