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Home rental startup Airbnb said on Wednesday (12 August) it supported the development of a digital services tax regime being discussed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to bridge a divide between the United States and Europe.

The European Union declared Tuesday (11 August) that the Belarus presidential election that returned authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko to office had been "neither free nor fair".

A Trump administration official nominated to lead Latin America's main development bank on Tuesday (11 August) dismissed the growing regional opposition to his candidacy, the first for anyone outside Latam, as "subversive" and led by a small minority.

The EU issued a declaration on the presidential elections in Belarus

Greece wants the EU to hold an emergency foreign ministers’ meeting, the prime minister’s office said Tuesday (11 August) amid a burgeoning row with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. Tensions were stoked Monday when Ankara sent the research ship Oruç...

France's data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Tuesday (11 August)  that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok after it received a complaint.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Prague on Tuesday (11 August), public TV footage showed, to open a five-day visit to central Europe with a hefty agenda including China's role in 5G network construction.

According to official sources Viktor Lukashenko won 80.2 percent of the vote in Belarus's presidential election on the weekend. However, opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (who officially received only 9.9 percent) rejected the results. Security forces have resorted to brutal measures to break up the ensuing mass protests. Europe's press analyses the situation and discusses how the international community should react.

After almost a week of fierce protests, Prime Minister Hassan Diab and his government ceded to public pressure and resigned on Monday. Diab made a televised speech in which he said the political system was partially responsible for the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut. The corruption is larger than Lebanon itself, he said. But the Lebanese people won't be satisfied with the executive's resignation, observers say.

The new school year starts this week in some European countries. In some places a fierce debate is raging about whether and to what extent schools can go back to normal despite the pandemic. Europe's commentators reflect on the unprecedented challenges posed by the end of the summer holidays.