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A Syrian surface-to-air missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday (22 April), the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens in an area near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor.

The foreign ministers of Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy, who met in the Slovenian mountain resort of Brdo Pri Kranju on Wednesday, agreed that the future of the Western Balkan region lies in its integration with the EU, Hina news agency...

EU countries will have to give a clear and joint response to the 2014 explosion in the ammunition depot in the Czech municipality of Vrbetice, in which Russia’s GRU military intelligence service is suspected to have been involved, leaders of...

“There is a consensus among the opposition that Health Minister Vili Beroš has to go,” SDP leader Peđa Grbin said after a meeting of opposition parties. “The man who allowed hospitals to not be delivered medicines, for the debt in...

Romania is close to reaching a vaccination capacity of 100,000 people per day, as it launched the first mobile vaccination units on Wednesday with the aim to reduce waiting times. However, fewer people than initially estimated intend to get the...

MPs of the Democratic Bulgaria coalition have asked Prime Minister Boyko Borissov if Bulgarian special services have intelligence on whether foreign special services were involved in explosions in military factories in Bulgaria in the last 10 years. The question was...

More than 20,000 people signed a Slovak petition calling for the “greening” of the agriculture sector, which was delivered to Agriculture Minister Ján Mičovský on Wednesday. The petition organised by environmental group SOS/Birdlife Slovakia calls for more support for farmers...

Australia said a decision to cancel two accords between Victoria state and China on the Belt and Road Initiative was taken to ensure consistency in foreign relations and was not aimed at any country.

Estonia is “seriously” considering granting Russian opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny asylum in case he is either banished or voluntarily leaves Russia, Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets said on Tuesday. The anti-corruption campaigner, who is on hunger strike...

European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica has underlined that the three European institutions - Parliament, Council and Commission - will speak with "one voice" through the Conference on the Future of Europe.

US President Joe Biden is expected to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War One as an act of genocide, a move likely to infuriate Turkey.

After the Greek hospitality sector was closed for almost 6 months, the government plans to reopen cafés and restaurants at the beginning of May to gradually return to normality. The decision is connected with the gradual opening of tourism on...

After six English abandoned plans to be part of a controversial Super League on Tuesday night, football clubs Juventus, AC Milan and Inter also announced they would abandon ship on Wednesday. Already on Wednesday afternoon, Juventus president and Super League vice-president...

Lithuania will have to increase its maximum working age to 72 if it wants to maintain its current age dependency ratio – the ratio between the number of working-age people and the population of seniors they need to support –...

Ukraine urged Western allies to show they were prepared to punish Moscow with new sanctions, including kicking Russia out of the global SWIFT payments system, to deter the Kremlin from resorting to more military force against Ukraine.

A referendum on the reunification of Ireland would not happen for a “very long time to come,” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Northern Ireland’s BBC Spotlight programme. After describing himself as a “proud unionist,” Johnson said he would rather...

European countries prepared on Wednesday (21 April) to start using Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and speed up their vaccination campaigns after Europe's drug regulator backed the shot and deliveries started trickling in after a week-long pause.

While EU Treaties clearly stipulate that the European Central Bank “shall support the general objectives of the European Union", politicians cannot simply stand by, hoping that it will use its discretionary power to act on them, writes Grégory Claeys.

Spain's far-right VOX party has ignited the campaign for Madrid's upcoming regional election with a series of controversial posters taking aim at social benefits received by unaccompanied minors who arrive as migrants. EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported.

French-Austrian vaccine developer Valneva on Wednesday (21 April) announced that it had launched a Phase 3 trial of its candidate vaccine against Covid-19 -- the last testing stage before seeking regulatory approval.