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Presidential, parliamentary and local elections were held in Serbia on Sunday. The country's National Electoral Commission announced on Monday that Aleksandar Vučić will remain president after securing just under 60 percent of the vote. His challenger Zdravko Ponoš garnered just under 18 percent. Vučić's SNS party has, however, lost its absolute majority in parliament. Europe's press scrutinises the results.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published its Synthesis Report for 2022 dealing with how climate change can be limited so that the 1.5 degree target is still achievable. The IPCC lists concrete measures such as phasing out fossil fuels. Commentators discuss such steps in light of the current situation with the war in Ukraine.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can have a positive impact globally but its true success depends on making its design, development and deployment inclusive.

Europe can play a special role in setting standards that have a global impact and prevent batteries from being discarded prematurely, writes Claudius Jehle.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell will travel to Kyiv this week to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, an EU official said Tuesday. The trip comes after the visit of European Parliament president Roberta Metsola, and, separately, the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia. Von der Leyen and Borrell will attend a Saturday crowdfunding event in Warsaw for Ukraine.

The policy of pragmatic coexistence with autocratic Russia is now recycled in the hands of Russia’s ‘Trojan horses’ in the EU and Vučić’s Serbia, writes Radan Kanev.

Ukrainian and Russian students in France face financial woes and find it increasingly difficult to renew their stay as the war in Ukraine impacts them despite them being several thousand kilometres away.

Commissioner of the Garda Síochána e.a
Approximation of laws
The Court confirms that EU law precludes the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to electronic communications for the purposes of combating serious crime

Russia will respond proportionately to the expulsion of its diplomats from a number of Western countries, Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev said late on Monday (4 April). “Everyone knows the answer: it will be symmetrical...

Tuesday, 5 April

Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP

Tuesday, 5 April

Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP

Emboldened by a fourth consecutive landslide election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is expected to dig in against energy sanctions on Russia and toughen his stance in talks with Brussels to unlock frozen EU funds.

US President Joe Biden called for the prosecution of Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes over the discovery in Bucha of mass graves and bodies of bound civilians shot at close range, but various challenges stand in the way.