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The middleman in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been found stabbed only hours ahead of a court hearing in Malta. Police suggest Melvin Theuma, who acted as a go-between in the car bombing that killed Galizia, had committed self-harm, according to local media reports. Theuma had been granted a pardon in November. His evidence implicated alleged mastermind behind the murder, tycoon Yorgen Fenech.

France's parliament passed the final vote on Tuesday on a new law to protect victims of domestic violence. It allows doctors to break patient confidentiality if life is "in immediate danger", and allows for parental rights to be suspended. The law also increases prison sentences to 10 years for perpetrators whose actions led to suicide or attempted suicide. Last year, 149 women died of domestic violence in France.

Italian senator Gianluigi Paragone will launch a new party later this week called "Italexit", after first meeting the UK's Nigel Farage, who helped steer Britain out of the European Union. "We can no longer be blackmailed by countries that offend the great prestige of Italy," said Paragone, who once belonged to the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement. Polls in May showed most Italians do not trust the EU.

British lawmakers slammed the government on Tuesday (21 July) for failing to look into possible Russian meddling in UK politics, particularly the divisive 2016 Brexit referendum, as they released a long-awaited report into the issue. The document by parliament’s Intelligence...

Coronavirus cases in Spain have increased rapidly, according to the latest figures from the Spanish health ministry. Covid-19 cases are now 27.39 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a sharp rise from the 8.76 cases per 100,000 reported on July 3. Since the end of June cases have increased, with a sharp spike last week concentrated in the Aragon, Catalonia regions and the Basque country.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he envisaged an EU-wide digital tax on big tech multinationals, along the lines of a digital tax that France has said it plans to impose this year, he said in an interview with France’s TF1...

The Quint ambassadors and the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia told Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in a meeting that the rule of law and particularly the right to assemble and media freedom are crucial for Serbia’s EU path,...

Some 350 doctors are calling for the dismissal of the National COVID-19 response team in an open letter sent to the Serbian government and other relevant institutions under the informal group known as “United against COVID”. In the letter, the...

“Subsidies will have to be repaid. One of the major shifts is contained in these few words, which speak of the EU’s own resources, because in seven years time, when we negotiate the next budget, this will be a key...

The newest EU member state has ‘surpassed’ its goals at the summit by securing a total of €22 billion through recovery fund (€9.4 billion) and the long-term budget €12.7 billion). As Croatia is the only EU country to have used...

After Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič came back pleased from the summit, a scandal regarding his plagiarised master’s thesis was waiting for him. After landing in Bratislava, Matovič told reporters that the media had jeopardised “hundreds of millions of euros”,...

“The success of the negotiations has shown that our isolation in the EU is a myth; it is also a myth that we are not able to build coalitions,” PiS party chief and Poland’s de facto leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, told...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was satisfied to come out with a deal which leaves the total numbers of the recovery fund unchanged and grants almost €209 billion to Italy, which is even more than anticipated. “We are satisfied with...

Wearing face masks will become mandatory again as of Friday (24 July) in grocery stores, post offices and banks. Previously, masks had been mandatory in all shops up until mid-June. Several new COVID-19 clusters have started to appear, mostly in...

After health authorities reported a daily rise in COVID-19 infections by 89% to an average of 184, Belgium’s Consultation Committee has discussed the tightening of measures and weighing scenarios for a potential second wave, including reduced social contacts, local lockdowns...

Nine months after what was termed the worst anti-Semitic attack in post-war German history, the trial of the alleged attacker, known in the German press as Stephan B., began on Tuesday (21 July). The suspect stands accused of killing two...

German business associations are cheering the deal EU leaders reached at a marathon summit that ended on Tuesday morning (21 July), and they have every reason to do so, explains economic researcher Jürgen Matthes. But some observers are displeased with cuts in funding for innovation, research or defence. EURACTIV Germany reports.

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Green NGOs urge the EU Commission to align its reform of the Common Agriculture Policy with the ambitions set in the EU Green Deal. The commission wants member states to reach an agreement.

In contrast to campaign posters on the street or ads on TV, other voters have no way of knowing what paid political messaging their fellow citizens are seeing. People become siphoned off from each other and societal divides might harden.