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The coronavirus pandemic could fuel organised crime for years to come in Europe, a continent already at "breaking point" from an unprecedented flood of cocaine, the EU's policing agency warned Monday (12 April).

French Prime Minister Jean Castex and former president François Hollande are among a number of French politicians to broadcast live interviews on Twitch in recent months, with the video streaming platform being seen as a way to reconnect with disaffected youth. EURACTIV France reports.

The 2021 Biosimilar Medicines Virtual Summit will explore the latest developments in biosimilar medicines policies and look at future opportunities and challenges in this field . The registration for the #BIOS21 Summit will be free and will grant access to a website containing complementary resources, such as interviews and infographics, and reports.

Last year, Italy launched an unprecedented plan allowing homeowners to finance 110% of energy efficiency renovation works through tax deductions. Almost one year on, the widely celebrated scheme is hitting snags related to mounting costs and bureaucracy.

People queued up outside retailers across England to release their pent-up shopping fever and some grabbed a midnight pint or even an early haircut as England’s shops, pubs, gyms and hairdressers reopened after three months of lockdown.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgarian PM Borissov revealing the cost of a Pfizer dose according to contracts between the Commission and Pfizer, Turkey suspending Italian contracts following Prime Minister Mario Draghi comments on Erdogan, and so much more.

AstraZeneca had a positive meeting with the European Commission last week, the Anglo-Swedish company said after an Italian newspaper said the group had not replied to an EU letter of complaint over COVID-19 vaccines within a 20-day deadline.

Several thousand citizens took part in a rally on Saturday in the Serbian capital dubbed The Eco Uprising, organised by  Defend the Rivers of Stara (Old) Planina group, named after the Balkan Mountain that runs partly through south-east Serbia. The...

A fire broke out on Friday evening in the house of Vesna Fabjan, a local councillor for the opposition party Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ), in Črnomelj, after an unknown perpetrator threw a petrol bomb through the window. No one was...

Four members of a group of Afghan migrants discovered by the Croatian border police in the Glina area have been found to be victims of aggravated robbery and have all been placed in the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers in...

The Romanian government brought forward its vaccination target by almost two months, with Prime Minister Florin Cîțu promising that many restrictions could be lifted if 10 million people get their jabs by 1 August. ”My target and my government’s target...

Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger has slammed as “inadequate” a trip by Finance Minister Igor Matovič’s to Hungary to discuss the Sputnik V vaccines Slovakia purchased in March since no Slovak diplomat attended the talks in Budapest. Matovič’s meeting with...

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on Friday warned of increasing political pressure on the public broadcaster Czech Television. As EURACTIV.cz reported, changes in the broadcaster’s supervisory commission have already caught the attention of Czech European Commissioner for transparency and values, Věra Jourová,...

Poland was among the leading EU destinations for Chinese investment in 2020, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) announced on Thursday. According to the institute, the total value of Chinese investment projects in Poland last year could be estimated at approximately...

Czech directors Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek filmed a short video message to be shown before the screening of their movie Old-Timers on Thursday (April 15) at the Czech Film Carnival in Budapest, writes Parameter.sk via Respekt.cz. One of the directors wrote “Ban Orbán” on a board while the other...

Fake offers of 1.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines from supposed intermediaries to EU governments are currently in the market, said Ville Itälä, Director General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). In an interview with Greek journal Ta Nea, Itälä...

Former Portuguese prime minister and leader of the Socialist Party, José Sócrates, will stand trial in the Operation Marquês case for money laundering and falsifying documents. Six years after he was arrested at Lisbon airport, 63-year-old José Sócrates is the...

The Turkish government has suspended contracts from Italian companies based in Turkey in response to the comments made by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi at a press conference Friday regarding the so-called ‘sofa-gate’ affair, calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Voting stations closed in Greenland on Tuesday evening (6 April) in a snap election that could unseat the ruling party and help decide the fate of vast deposits of rare earth metals that international companies want to exploit.

The US said that it is looking to discuss with allies how to proceed with participation in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in a coordinated way, amid growing calls for a boycott of the Games over China’s human rights record.