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Following outcry from civil society and two ambassadors, the UNDP and EU have announced the suspension of the renovation of Kosovo Albanian politician and Nazi collaborationist Xhafer Deva. The news that the house would be reconstructed with funding from the...

Macedonian police seized about 1.5 tons of undeclared marijuana in one of the companies registered for producing medical marijuana in Strumica, a city in the southeast of the country, close to Bulgaria. Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said in a statement...

The Bosnian foreign ministry will inform Croatia in a diplomatic note that it wants experts from BiH to work together with Croatian colleagues on testing the soil of Trgovska Gora, where a nuclear waste management facility is planned. The location...

The Port of Antwerp in Belgium is interested in participating in the construction of a new port in Belgrade, Serbia’s ministry for construction, transport and infrastructure announced on Wednesday. The director of the Port of Antwerp, Kristof Waterschoot, stated during...

The government should include femicide as a criminal act, said Ivana Posavec Krivec, leader of the Social Democrats’ faction in the Croatian parliament – the main opposition. UN defines femicide as the killing of women and girls because of their...

Former EU health commissioner John Dalli appeared in a Maltese court Wednesday (9 February) charged with bribery and trading in influence over a tobacco lobbying scandal that caused his resignation a decade ago.

The new cohesion report by the EU Commission shows that a large part of public investment in cohesion countries stems from EU cohesion funds rather than from member states themselves whose own investments are constrained by EU fiscal rules.

Slovenian President Borut Pahor has called the general election for 24 April, the earliest possible date according to the law and the first scheduled poll after three consecutive snap elections. Pahor had indicated last year that he would pick the...

When China imposed a lockdown on the city of Wuhan and its 11 million residents in January 2020, few could imagine the global turmoil that would follow. The deserted streets and fear that characterized the start of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Local citizens’ panels indicate an appetite for ambitious EU reforms in the process of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). Many policies could also benefit from a bottom-up and more regional approach, stakeholders argue. In January, citizens from...

The central bank decided Wednesday to increase its main reference rate to 2.5%, from 2%, in an effort to keep inflation in check. It is the fourth rate increase in as many months. Romania’s central bank increased its monetary policy...

The chances of winning a public procurement contract are seven times higher if you have links to the governing elite according to research published by the Corruption Research Centre Budapest, Telex reported. The article uses data on Hungarian public procurement between 2011 and 2020 to show how...

The government has decided to abolish most of the county’s measures against COVID-19, with vaccination certificates no longer mandatory in restaurants and other facilities from 18 February. “As of 1 March, only very few restrictive measures will be in force...

The disputed Defence Cooperation Agreement was approved on Wednesday with a majority of 79 votes. Voting was preceded by bizarre scenes such as whistling by supporters of the deal and its critics’ occupation of the speaker’s desk. The plenary was accompanied...

China has suspended imports of beef from Lithuania since Wednesday (9 February), the General Administration of Customs said, amid a growing trade spat with the Baltic nation and its Western allies centred on Chinese-claimed Taiwan.

The European Parliament has included a debate on the drought in the Iberian Peninsula on the agenda for next week’s plenary session after the PSD delegation requested an urgent discussion on the situation in Portugal. The decision to schedule a...

Turkey's broadcasting watchdog has given three international news agencies 72 hours to obtain an operating licence or else have access to their platforms blocked, one of its members said on Wednesday (9 February).

People should not speculate about scenarios and hypotheses of war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Wednesday in Kyiv. It is time for diplomacy and dialogue, Albares of the governing socialist PSOE party stressed in a brief...

Boris Johnson on Wednesday warned that the UK would suspend the Northern Ireland protocol if the EU did not show ‘common sense’. “We must fix it (the problems with the so-called Northern Ireland protocol), and with goodwill and common sense,...

The government is considering relaxing COVID-19 restrictions, spokesman Gabriel Attal announced at the end of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, where he reiterated his government’s willingness to abolish the vaccine pass if the situation in hospitals improves. On when...