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The representatives of Serbian political parties will not be included in the online discussion with the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs chief David McAllister scheduled for 1 March, Serbian Assembly Speaker Ivica Dačić has confirmed. Dačić said that he...
The government communication office’s (UKOM) failure to pay the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) has prompted strong reactions from STA employees and several journalist organisations at home and abroad, as well as some MPs. The move is seen as another attempt...
71% of citizens think that Croatia is heading in the wrong direction, while 58% do not approve of the government’s work, according to the monthly Crobarometar, which has been recording mounting dissatisfaction among those surveyed for the third month in...
As European Union leaders debated the idea Thursday (25 February) amid claims that it could be divisive and discriminatory, on the global scale, the idea of vaccine passports, which would allow people who have been inoculated the freedom to travel,...
Bulgaria will stop the process of mass vaccination as it will continue to only receive 40% of the ordered doses of British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccines, which are the basis of the government’s immunisation plans. To fill the void, Bulgaria will receive...
This type of quarantine is selective and applied only in areas with marginalised communities, and is “discriminatory, as it lacks justification, and its duration is unclear,” said Slovak Ombudswoman Mária Patakyová in reference to the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency saying...
As negotiations on the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum are approaching, the Czech Republic is calling for better prevention of uncontrollable migration flows, assistance for migrants in the regions of their origin, as well as more intensive cooperation...
Although Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is set to present the national recovery plan on Friday, as government spokesman Piotr Müller confirmed on Thursday, the government has not yet approved the bill to ratify the Reconstruction Fund. As part of the...
Human rights watchdogs hailed on Thursday European Court of Justice advocate general’s opinion that criminalisation of assistance to asylum-seekers violates EU law. The Hungarian parliament adopted the “Stop Soros” package of laws in June 2018, on the basis of which...
The Greek penal code will be amended to have stricter penalties for sexual offences, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a parliamentary address on Thursday, adding that “for minors, the statute of limitations is suspended until the victim reaches adulthood,...
Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice has ordered a man to compensate his former partner for the domestic work she performed over almost 30 years of de facto union. Portugal’s highest court said that not compensating the domestic activity exclusively or essentially...
The Chair of the populist Finns Party, Jussi Halla-aho said he is not pushing for an EU exit and is “in principle” not against the bloc in a podcast published Thursday, despite his party’s existence being based on criticising the...
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster has backed Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride, after her members from her Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said health officials had been ‘overcautious’ in their coronavirus restriction recommendations. DUP Education Minister Peter Weir has...
There are growing divisions within the governing Conservative party ahead of next week’s Budget. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to maintain generous support programmes for businesses and the self-employed, but his predecessor in Theresa May’s government Phillip Hammond warned on...
“The health situation in our country has deteriorated over the last few days” and “the virus is gaining ground again”, said French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday, adding that reinforced measures will have to be taken if the situation...
Der Vorsitzende der rechtspopulistischen Partei Die Finnen, Jussi Halla-aho, hat gestern betont, er wolle derzeit nicht auf einen EU-Austritt drängen und sei auch "prinzipiell" nicht gegen den Block.
Police searched the office of MP Georg Nüßlein (CSU) on Thursday as part of an investigation into allegations that he lobbied the government to enter a contract with a mask supplier for which he pocketed €660,000, some media outlets have...
Spanish flag carrier and IAG group member, Iberia, has started testing a mobile “health passport” for passengers travelling to Miami and New York, company sources have confirmed. EURACTIV’s Fernando Heller reports from Madrid. The move comes after the regional parliament...
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