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Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas resigned on Wednesday (13 January) after an enquiry into a property development project in the capital which could see him accused of corruption.

Lying at the heart of the European Green Deal, the Farm to Fork and the Biodiversity strategies play a key role in shaping the debate around the future of the European agri-food sector. In its flagship food policy, the EU...

After a brief sense of relief that the coronavirus vaccines had been approved, uncertainty about how long the pandemic will last is again on the rise, fuelled by ongoing high infection rates and the emergence of new, more contagious strains of the virus. This makes it all the more important, commentators say, to ensure that vaccination programmes are well organised and to gain the trust of the population.

A report has been released in Ireland by a commission investigating the conditions in homes for unmarried mothers and their babies between 1922 and 1998. It showed that the child mortality rate in the homes was 15 percent. The Irish government has issued an official apology that speaks of "an oppressive and brutally misogynistic culture." Irish media are now debating the role of the Church.

Three days after the storming of the Capitol, Twitter permanently blocked Donald Trump's private account in a bid to stop the president from inciting further violence. But for Europe's press, this is not the end of the matter. The question now is whether constructive debate on social media is a pipe dream.

Lithuania marks the 30th anniversary of Vilnius's Bloody Sunday today. This is the name given to the events of 13 January 1991, when Soviet troops attempted to stage a coup in Lithuania, which had declared independence the previous year in March. More than a thousand people were injured by tanks and gunfire and fourteen people died.

Slovenia's Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs posted online a list of the names, units and wages of some 8,700 employees of the police force and Interior Ministry, including those of undercover agents and special police task force members. Observers see this as a bizarre and dangerous reaction to a dispute with the trade union, which is calling for wage increases.