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A parliamentary inquiry to investigate suspected political influence by officeholders during the current and previous governments on the police and other independent state bodies was launched in parliament following a request from the ruling Freedom Movement. The aim of the...

On the so-called “popular bond,” a type of government debt instrument open to private individuals, was launched by the government Wednesday morning, meaning Croatians will have the opportunity to invest for the first time a minimum of €500, with a...

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó was the only EU foreign minister missing from a video ministers made in support of Ukraine as Russia’s war approaches its one-year mark, with one of his ministry’s state secretaries featuring instead. In the foreign ministers’...

EU countries did not reach agreement on Wednesday (22 February) about new sanctions against Russia, and planned more talks to have the package ready for the one-year anniversary of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine on Friday, diplomats said.

The opposition party ANO (Renew) threatened the government with a lawsuit due to proposed changes in the selection of councillors of the two public broadcasting media – Czech Television and Czech Radio. The opposition parties blame the government for efforts...

US President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assured the leaders of the Bucharest Nine countries in Warsaw on Wednesday that reinforcing NATO’s Eastern flank is among the alliance’s priorities. Biden and Stoltenberg were invited as guests to...

The head of EU diplomacy and ex-minister for the ruling PSOE party (S&D), Josep Borrell, called the leftist Podemos party (EU Left) “naive” over their hopes to tackle the Ukranian conflict without weapons. For its part, Podemos insists that peace...

Ukraine’s EU integration is as important for long-term peace and security in Europe as military and economic aid to Kyiv are for winning the war. While the EU has sent strong messages of rhetorical support, little has been done in practice to re-energize enlargement to help candidate countries advance towards membership.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had made absolutely delusional claims about the war in Ukraine in his speech on Tuesday when he announced Moscow’s suspension of the nuclear arms control agreement, Portuguese Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho said in an interview....

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has accused former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of deliberately trying to damage her international profile by way of his controversial comments against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “He does it on purpose. He does it to...

Spain will soon send the first shipment of six Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine and plans to send more German-made armoured vehicles of the same type in the near future, Defence Margarita Robles confirmed on Wednesday. Speaking before parliament, Robles...

President Vladimir Putin said Russia will maintain increased attention on boosting its nuclear forces in an address to mark Thursday's Defender of the Fatherland public holiday (23 February) and a day before the first anniversary of his invasion of Ukraine.

Amid growing concerns over a subsidy race between the US and Europe, Tesla has announced it will be backtracking on its investments in Germany due to higher subsidies in the US. In 2019, Tesla said it would build one of...

Threats to Sweden’s security are increasing and are coming mainly from Russia amid a rise in disinformation campaigns, according to the latest report from the Swedish Security Services (Säpo) released Wednesday. Russia, together with China and Iran, are increasingly going...

Luxembourg, which has been sending supplies to Ukraine since the start of the war, is buying weapons from open markets to ensure it can keep delivering aid as it has already depleted its relatively limited military stockpiles. Luxembourg set up...

France is to adopt a series of water restriction measures and a major water plan, as it currently faces an unprecedented winter drought, Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion Minister Christophe Béchu announced in an interview on Wednesday.

Russia was the largest importer in Bulgaria in the year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, replacing Germany at the top spot among importers. Russia imported goods to Bulgaria for nearly €5.86 billion, double that of 2021. Imports from Russia...

Journalists are now banned from attending the upcoming OSCE assembly in Vienna, in addition to growing woes which include a boycott by Ukraine and Lithuania over the attendance of Russia and unanswered calls to kick them out. The two-day assembly...

An Israeli army raid killed 11 Palestinians including a teenager Wednesday (22 February) in Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said, in the deadliest escalation in the occupied West Bank since 2005.

As more young children than ever are given commercial milk formula (CMF) in addition to, or in place of, breastfeeding, experts have called for stricter controls against exploitative CMF marketing alongside stronger maternity protections. In 1974, a controversial report, The...