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Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades signed a deal on Thursday to build a pipeline carrying gas from the eastern Mediterranean to continental Europe. The 1,900km pipeline should provide an alternative to Russian gas supply to Europe and is expected to satisfy up to 10 percent of Europe's gas needs.

Turkey's parliament authorises the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to send troops to Libya - despite the two main opposition parties saying the conflict there has nothing to do with Turkish national security.

Volkswagen is in talks over a settlement with more than 400,000 German owners of vehicles that were affected by the carmaker's 'Dieselgate' emissions-rigging scandal, the Guardian reported. Germany's VZBV, a consumer rights organisations, said the talks are about a "pragmatic solution in the interests of customers". Volkswagen has already compensated VW owners in the US and Australia, and faces a class action lawsuit in the UK.

The White House announced that president Donald Trump had ordered the killing of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in a drone strike on the airport of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Suleimani was the leader of all Iranian military operations in Iraq and Syria. Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, ordered three days of national mourning and said that the US would face "severe revenge" for the killing.

Catalonia's largest separatist party to abstain during the upcoming confidence vote in the Socialist-led government in exchange for promises of political dialogue. Meanwhile a Belgian judge has suspended an arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont.

The United States killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Iran’s spreading military influence in the Middle East, in an air strike on Friday (3 December) at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon and Iran...

Departing from a tumultuous 2019, in which several tech behemoths faced the ire of European regulators, the forthcoming twelve months in the digital arena will prove to be lively in terms of EU policy.

The European Commission has said the EastMed natural gas pipeline deal signed by Cyprus, Greece and Israel yesterday (2 January) is a “welcome development” but insisted on exploring further the cost-benefits of the different options.

After Turkey's parliament passed a bill on Thursday (2 January) approving a deployment of armed forces to Libya, here is a look back at some of the other Turkish military operations abroad.

A Brussels court has suspended the extradition of former Catalan pro-independence leader Carles Puigdemont, his lawyer said on Thursday (2 January).

Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the European Commission, surprised even environmentalists when she announced she would make climate policy the “hallmark” of her five-year mandate. Now comes the hard part: the delivery.

Commentators look ahead to the next twelve months: which people, trends and debates will shape the new year?

In Austria the conservative ÖVP and The Greens have agreed on a government coalition. ÖVP leader Sebastian Kurz is to become chancellor once more. Media in Austria and neighbouring countries view the new alliance as a model for other countries and are eager to see how it performs.