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European politicians who are appealing for making a peace treaty with Russia or arguing about the need to "help Putin save his face" are sharing responsibility for all Russian war crimes in Ukraine and the blood of Ukrainian civilians and children, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Romania is ”strongly” in favour of a ”rapid” accession process for both Finland and Sweden, as the membership of these two states will strengthen NATO, Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu said on Sunday. In a statement, he spoke of Romania’s strong...

Prague wants Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be a guest at the EU leaders’ summit in October 2022 it will organise as part of its EU Council presidency. The summit is likely to be held at the Prague Castle in...

Poles are preparing for elections scheduled in 2023, but there are reports of a possible early vote due to tensions between the parties in the right-wing coalition. Next year, Poles will go to the polls twice to elect a new...

Russia’s “strategic defeat” caused by President Vladimir Putin’s “grave mistake” over the invasion could lead to Ukraine’s victory, Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho said Sunday. “On the one hand, it has become clear that Russia cannot attain its objectives in the...

Spain could become Europe’s first country to introduce medical leave for women suffering from menstrual pain with the government and parliament set approve a draft bill amending the country’s abortion law to this effect. Sources inside the Spanish Socialist Workers’...

Former Prime Minister and current leader of the main opposition leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras said he would win the next elections in Greece after his party more than doubled its members in a historic vote on Sunday. For the...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is visiting Washington on Monday to agree on purchasing F-35 fighters, which the US have excluded neighbouring Turkey from buying after the latter bought the Russian S-400 missile system. Meanwhile, Ankara is pressuring US Congress...

In a historic move, the Social Democrats’ party board said it favoured a NATO application with “unilateral reservations against the deployment of nuclear weapons” in a press release on Sunday. After an extraordinary meeting of its party board on Sunday...

Future relations with Russia should be based on a “professional attitude”, said President Sauli Niinistö after he announced, alongside Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Sunday, that Finland seeks to join NATO. Describing his phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Iran-backed Hezbollah has been dealt a blow in Lebanon's parliamentary election on Sunday (15 May) with preliminary results showing losses for some of its oldest allies and the Saudi-aligned Lebanese Forces party saying it had gained seats.

Action by the UK government to scrap parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol could “fundamentally undermine the functioning of the institutions of the peace process in Northern Ireland,” warned Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney. Tensions have begun to rise after...

The government is pushing for the House of Lords, the UK parliament’s upper house, to relocate to a town outside London while major restoration works of the Palace of Westminster take place. Significant works are required to the Victorian buildings,...

Former minister Stef Blok, tasked with coordinating the Dutch approach to sanctions against Russia, presented his final report on sanctions to Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra on Friday. Blok was nominated to coordinate Dutch sanctions against Russia on 6 April. In...

All delegates of Austria’s conservative party ÖVP confirmed Chancellor Karl Nehammer as party chief on Saturday, despite his government’s current turmoil and low polling numbers. “100%! Thank you ÖVP!” Nehammer said on Saturday (14 May). Nehammer first replaced disgraced former...

French President Emmanuel Macron flew to Abu Dhabi on Sunday to pay tribute to UAE’s late President Sheikh Khalifa. Khalifa died at age 73 on Friday. “Sheikh Khalifa was a fervent architect of the strengthening of the Franco-Emirians’ strategic partnership....

The German Social Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in Sunday’s state election in Germany’s most populous state and lost to the conservative CDU. The Greens were able to triple their vote and logged a historical result in the election.

The United States and the European Union plan to announce on Monday (16 May) a joint effort aimed at identifying semiconductor supply disruptions as well as countering Russian disinformation, officials said.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov will not visit Skopje soon as there is no document to work on regarding the Neighbourhood agreement, Lena Borislavova, the head of the prime minister’s office, told Bulgarian national television in an interview, while Skopje...

Former Prime Minister and opposition leader Roberto Fico called for an immediate halt to all aid to Ukraine in a TV debate on Sunday. “Ukrainians never helped us, Ukraine blatantly lied to us in 2009 when we needed gas, and...