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Former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leaders pleaded not guilty to fresh charges brought against them by prosecutors on Tuesday and asked for their trials to be expedited as they have been in custody for 18 months at The Hague. Specialist...

Poland recorded ten times more Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war in Ukraine than the refugees Serbia received from the Middle East at the peak of the 2015 refugee crisis, a spokesman for the office of the UN...

From idealism to action. Now, for the first time, the social economy and social investment have a seat at the EU’s policy table.

An increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases was not registered during the Labour Day and Easter holidays but everyone should be careful, and vaccinations are still necessary, said Serbian epidemiologist Predrag Kon on Tuesday. In a statement to...

The incoming left-liberal government led by former energy executive Robert Golob has finalised the coalition agreement less than three weeks after Golob’s landmark election victory and unveiled most of the names in what will be the largest cabinet in Slovenia’s...

Croatia could become an “energy hub in the northern Adriatic” as Europe seeks to wean itself off Russian energy, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said during a visit to Cyprus on Wednesday. Croatia’s floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the...

Public institutions and authorities may no longer be allowed to use cyber security software and services made by Russian companies or controlled by firms or persons from Russia, according to a new government bill. According to the proposal, the presence...

Russia is the "most direct threat" to the international order because of its invasion of Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday (12 May) in Tokyo.

The Hungarian National Concession Bureau will go to the Supreme Court (Kúria) to withhold the release of the calculations underlying a 35-year concession contract of the country’s motorways to a consortium linked to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Telex reported via Radio Free Europe....

Polish opposition parties from the left, centre and moderate right have tabled a motion for a vote of no confidence against controversial Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro. Donald Tusk, leader of Poland’s largest opposition party, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), announced last...

The year-on-year change in Portugal’s consumer price index (CPI) was 7.2% in April, up from 5.3% in the previous month and the highest since March 1993, Statistics Portugal (INE) said on Wednesday. “The year-on-year change in the Consumer Price Index...

The public prosecutor will not be pressing charges against former Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita over a fatal car crash. On 18 June 2021, Cabrita’s official car fatally struck Nuno Santos, a maintenance worker on the A6 motorway. At first, the...

Spain is finalising the details of a draft law that would guarantee the right to seek an abortion in the country’s free public healthcare system and scrap the requirement for 16-year-olds and above to obtain parental consent. Sources from Spain’s...

The European Commission green-lighted Italy’s €698 million aid package included in the national Recovery and Resilience Plan, which aims to mitigate the economic impact of COVID-19 on companies in the tourism sector, it announced on Wednesday. The tourism sector accounts...

Permanent military forces remain in the riskiest sections of the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė and Defence Minister Arvydas Anušaukas announced on Wednesday. The interior minister said that the threats to national security increased after the state of emergency was...

Facemasks will no longer need to be worn on public transport in France from Monday, meaning the country is getting closer to dropping all COVID-19 restrictions. Facemasks will no longer have to be worn on metros, buses, trains, planes, and...

The government in Berlin has decided to prolong Germany’s participation in the UN’s Mali mission and send additional troops to make up for France’s withdrawal. The government cabinet has decided to extend the Bundeswehr’s participation in the UN’s MINUSMA mission...

Bulgaria will receive supplies of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) at prices lower than Gazprom’s starting in June, according to a deal struck between Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and US Vice President Kamala Harris, the government’s press service said on...

Czech state fuel distributor Čepro is ready to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the country so gas could be transported from the Baltics by train. In the future, ship transport is also possible if the navigability of...

The UK signed agreements confirming mutual security assurances with Finland and Sweden after Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited both Helsinki and Stockholm on Wednesday. On Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Swedish counterpart Magdalena Andersson signed a “political declaration of...