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The Hungarian forint fell sharply following the news that the EU would trigger the rule of law conditionality against Hungary, while the local stock market also took a serious hit, with investors selling shares of OTP, Hungary’s largest commercial bank, Telex reported...

Marian Kotleba, member of the National Council and head of the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia, has received a suspended six-month sentence with an 18-month probation period for expressing sympathy for a movement suppressing basic rights and freedoms. Kotleba was...

The United States will ask the UN General Assembly to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, the US ambassador to the UN said, after Ukraine accused Russian troops of killing dozens of civilians in the town of Bucha.

Migraine affects three to four times more women than men. What can we do to ensure that women with migraine get the awareness and respect they deserve?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to hold back food exports and take retaliatory measures against Western companies after Germany nationalised the German Gazprom subsidiary on Monday. During a meeting on Tuesday in Moscow, broadcast on public TV, Putin spoke...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended America's response to the war in Ukraine on Tuesday (5 April) during a heated exchange with a Republican lawmaker who accused the Pentagon of over-estimating Russia's military capability.

The border cooperation between Russia and Norway continues despite war in Ukraine, as evidenced by a recent meeting of the Norwegian Joint Operations Headquarters with the Chief of the FSB Border Directorate, according to High North News. As a NATO...

More than a dozen Russian intelligence officers have been given two weeks to leave Denmark after the Foreign Policy Committee decided on Tuesday (5 April) to expel them, while Sweden announced the deportation of three Russian diplomats on the same...

Ireland’s government approved a three-year-long pilot scheme trialling basic income for artists on Tuesday. Two thousand artists selected at random will receive €325 per week. The trial is set to start later this month. The initiative will cost €35 million...

The coordination of sanctions efforts against Russia will be tasked to former minister Stef Blok who was appointed National Coordinator for Sanctions Compliance and Enforcement on Monday. In his new role, Blok will focus on improving the implementation of sanctions and...

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will be travelling to Kyiv to show his support to Ukraine following a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “I spoke yesterday with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on the phone”, said Nehammer on Tuesday. “We discussed...

France’s anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened three new investigations over alleged “war crimes” perpetrated against French nationals in Ukraine. The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office can only look into acts committed against French citizens, it said in a press release, adding that war...

The US intelligence community knew seven days before Russia invaded Ukraine when exactly it would strike, Security and Intelligence Agency Director Daniel Markić told the Croatian-US Forum in Zagreb on Tuesday, adding that the US shared the information with Croatia,...

The Czech Republic is the first country to send Ukraine tens of T-72 tanks to help its army defend against Russian attacks, news site Echo24 reported on Tuesday. Armoured personnel carriers were also sent and both are considered a gift following an...

Hungary’s newly re-elected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party winning Sunday’s elections makes some Finnish analysts wonder whether Orbán could stand in the way of their NATO aspirations or ask NATO or the EU for something in return...

The United Kingdom, in partnership with Estonia, will host the European HQ of a new programme for NATO allies to develop new military technologies. The programme will “accelerate, test, evaluate and validate new technologies that address critical defence challenges and...

The European Commission may have focused only on €4 billion worth of coal in the latest sanctions package proposed on Tuesday but a total EU energy embargo covering Russian oil and gas has become inevitable. Germany and Austria are among...

Ukraine's president showed a harrowing video of dead civilians to the UN Security Council Tuesday (5 April) and called for "accountability" for apparent Russian atrocities, as fears grow that Moscow is preparing new offensives.

This text aims to enhance the agency's mandate and improve its functioning through more efficient procedures.

This protocol will improve cross-border access to electronic evidence to be used in criminal proceedings.