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The Ministry of Human Resources has unlawfully kept the media out of hospitals during the pandemic, a Budapest district court ruled on Wednesday. EURACTIV’s media partner Telex challenged in court the decision to ban all media outlets except public television and national news agency MTI from...

The US will send 1,700 additional troops to Poland, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby has announced, a decision which Warsaw is happy with. Due to the tense situation in Eastern Europe, components of the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) of infantry from...

The Czech government has praised the European Commission’s decision to include gas and nuclear in the EU’s sustainable taxonomy. Prague was fighting for the green label to be applied to gas and nuclear for months and sees the move as...

China is promoting its own interests through ties with municipalities and local governments in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Chinese influence on municipalities was the subject of a new study conducted by the Central European Institute of Asian Studies and the Association...

Russia has not built up enough forces for a "full-scale" invasion of Ukraine and travel advice that foreign nationals should leave was "premature", Kyiv has said.

The European Union's border-free Schengen area should be managed by regular ministerial meetings, just like the eurozone, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday (2 February), adding that this could start as early as next month.

Frontex spent €8,500 to send its executive director Fabrice Leggeri on a private jet to attend an evening meeting in Brussels. The Warsaw-based agency said there were scheduling conflicts preventing him taking a commercial flight.

South Africa's Afrigen Biologics has used the publicly available sequence of Moderna Inc's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to make its own version of the shot, which could be tested in humans before the end of this year, Afrigen's top executive said on Thursday (3 February).

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) carried out in eight geographical areas in northern Portugal with potential for the mining of lithium has excluded two – Arga and Segura – while giving the green light for six others, it was disclosed on...

Italy’s inflation rate has reached a 26-year high of 4.8% mainly due to the increase in energy prices, preliminary estimates for January 2022 published by Italy’s national statistics institute (ISTAT) show. “The national consumer price index (CPI) for the entire...

The Supreme Court’s case against former Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg gathered dust for several weeks in the justice ministry before it was sent to the Prison Service, which is supposed to take over. Støjberg, a former minister from the Liberal...

The EU’s sustainable finance rules presented on Wednesday will award a “green” label to gas and nuclear power, which has prompted Austria and Luxembourg to announce a lawsuit. The European Commission’s proposal would primarily satisfy the “wishes of the nuclear...

Northern Ireland’s Agriculture minister Edwin Poots has ordered his officials to halt Irish Sea border checks from midnight on Wednesday, a move that could open the latest legal dispute over the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol. Poots, who is...

The UK government’s plans for an amnesty for prosecutions related to the Troubles would undermine the rule of law and bring further distress to victims’ families, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said on Wednesday. Martin spoke days after the 50th anniversary of “Bloody...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has obtained a €10.6 million loan from a Hungarian bank to finance her presidential election campaign, according to RTL radio on Wednesday. This comes after the presidential candidate for Rassemblement National said she was...

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has raised doubts about Germany’s military engagement in Mali, even though the federal government had recently ruled out a withdrawal of troops. “Considering the latest steps taken by Mali’s government, we need to honestly ask ourselves...

There are ongoing discussions on Finland possibly supporting Ukraine’s defence capability, Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen of the Centre party revealed. There are “different options” to help Ukrainian defence capability, Kaikkonen said in an email response to questions sent by the...

The Bulgarian Parliament’s legal committee adopted at first reading the justice ministry’s draft bill that eliminates the sale of Bulgarian investment citizenship or so-called “golden passports”. The scheme was met with several warnings from the European Commission and the European Parliament...

Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and floods have cost Europe almost 510 billion euros and around 142,000 lives over the past 40 years, according to a new report published Thursday.