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Several MPs of La République en Marche (LREM), President Emmanuel Macron’s majority party in parliament, have received death threats as French lawmakers are set to examine a draft bill that would transform the current sanitary pass to a vaccine pass...

The world is fragmented and the future is uncertain. New paradigms and narratives are emerging. Why should Europe then be the answer? And what makes Europe “European”? Europa can best be understood by its history, its sufferings and revolutions, the...

A survey of wastewater showed the Omicron coronavirus variant spreading to a majority of regions of Italy in December, the government's National Health Institute said on Monday(3 January).

TV showman Slavi Trifonov whose party “There is such a people” is in the quadruple ruling coalition in Bulgaria proposed a deal: Sofia to lift the veto on the start of EU negotiations for North Macedonia against the abolition of US visas...

The government’s use of €5.4 million of court funds to buy the Israeli Pegasus software to investigate a person suspected of criminal activity was unlawful, claims leading Gazeta Wyborcza daily. The revelations cast new light on the recent information that the Central...

Tens of thousands of Portughese citizenship applications by Sephardic Jews have been processed by the Israeli Community of Porto, including that of Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, Rabbi Daniel Litvak told Lusa on Monday. To obtain nationality, the applicant must prove...

Domestic flights will be “completely green” by 2030, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in her New Year’s speech, adding that flying will become more expensive in the future. The green transition is necessary “we must make flying green”, said Frederiksen....

Discord within Germany’s traffic-light government comes after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rebuffed the Greens on high-level issues such as relations to Russia and the EU’s green taxonomy. According to German daily BILD, Scholz reportedly wants to make Russia Chefsache (an executive...

China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers published by the Kremlin.

The EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell will visit Ukraine's frontline later this week, the European Commission has announced, in a show of support for Kyiv amid Russia's military build-up along its border.

The EU Commission has presented a proposal to the member states for investments in nuclear and gas-fired power plants to be classified as climate-friendly. The draft is considered a compromise solution, with concessions in particular to France on nuclear energy and Germany in the area of natural gas. Europe's press is divided over the initiative.

A Russian court has banned the Moscow-based Human Rights Centre run by NGO Memorial and its umbrella organisation Memorial International. Memorial, which has been conducting research since 1991 on state crimes committed during the Soviet era, was charged with repeatedly violating the country's "foreign agent" rules. Observers see little chance of an appeal being successful.