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While Croatia felt another strong earthquake on Sunday, independent MP of the parliamentary faction of the right-wing Most Party, Maria Selak Raspudić said “whatever you think about Trump’s presidency and his indirect connection with the attacks on the US Congress,...

The vaccination order in the Bulgarian town of Sandanski has undoubtedly been violated, Health Minister Kostadin Angelov announced on Sunday, after it became clear – following the audit of the town of Sandanski – that 20 people from the town...

Former police chief Milan Lučanský – who was charged with serious crimes including taking bribes in a police action called “Judas” in early December – attempted suicide while in pre-trial detention on 29 December and died in hospital one day...

“That conflict, that battle between a more democratic inclusive vision, and one that’s top-down, dominant- subordinate, that’s a contest that’s taking place here in the United States, and around the world,” former US President Barack Obama told show host Trevor...

The Czech Republic should receive the first 20,000 doses of Moderna vaccines on Monday, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told the Czech Television without any further details. The European Medical Agency (EMA) and the European Commission approved the Moderna vaccine on...

Protestors may first have to pay a fine before having their day in court, the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) proposed on Friday following the mass protests related to the Women’s strike. While many lawyers such as Polish Ombudsman Adam...

While the UK splinters away from the European Union, Africa is uniting under a landmark free trade agreement, making it one of the largest since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), writes Debisi Araba.

The UK’s more restrictive new migration policy “will be a problem”, which will have to be monitored by the Portuguese EU Council Presidency, said Portugal’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva on Friday. “The new UK migration policy will be a...

Following former Italian Prime Minister and Italy Alive party leader Matteo Renzi’s threat to have the current ministers of his party resign from the current government, a cabinet reshuffle appears likely. Renzi sent a letter to the government on 6...

The Swedish parliament has approved a law giving the government the right to apply tougher measures in the fight against the current pandemic. The law, which came into force on Sunday, allows the government to limit opening hours and visitor...

The UK leaving the EU has left defence and security issues wide open, as bilateral and joint agreements with the UK may be in danger of turning into dead letters. While questions have been raised about the future of the...

An outbreak of the recently discovered South African variant of COVID-19 has been contained after a recent scare, health officials in Ireland have said. Despite this, a COVID-19 mutation first identified in the UK has health authorities concerned. Ireland is...

Business Minister Alok Sharma has left his post to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November, signalling the UK government’s desire to make a success of its chairmanship, following criticism that previous...

The European Union's top diplomat said on Sunday (10 January)that last week's siege of the US Capitol exposed the dangers of allowing the degradation of democratic values to go unchecked and disinformation to spread on social media.

Following accusations of plagiarism, Austrian Labour and Families Minister Christine Aschbacher (ÖVP) announced her decision to leave the government, saying “media and political companions” had judged her prematurely. The now-former labour minister faced accusations of plagiarism regarding her diploma thesis...

Belgium will apply for ten million additional Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines, Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke announced over the weekend. At the same time, there is still no official database on vaccination efforts. “We’re asking for a fair share,” Vandenbroucke said on...

“We are doing everything we can to prevent the spread of this variant,” Health Minister Olivier Véran told Europe 1/CNews/Les Échos on Sunday morning in reference to the new coronavirus variant that recently emerged in the UK. Eight more departments...

Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble has organised an increase in security for the German parliament building according to a report in the Bild am Sonntag. The move comes after lawmakers made the call late last week to increase security around the...

Cyprus has asked neighbouring Israel for COVID-19 vaccines, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades told Politis journal in an interview. “I have contacted [Israeli PM] Mr Netanyahu and asked him to consider supplying a quantity for the Republic of Cyprus. He will...

Members of the European Parliament have a renewed duty to address the thorny issue of regulating social media content, in the wake of last week’s Capitol Hill riots, the chair of Parliament’s Internal Market committee has said.