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While Germany saw the lowest increase in 2020 in terms of foreigners entering the country in the last 10 years, more than 26,000 Croats emigrated to the country last year as the pandemic was in full swing, figures published Monday...

The NGO Anti-Corruption Fund says that Bulgaria is facing a serious risk of electoral fraud at upcoming elections on 4 April, with irregularities found at one in every five polling stations. The NGO analysed a total of 2,554 polling stations...

Of Slovakia’s 5 million inhabitants, 872,000 are at risk of poverty, which is more than 16 percent of the population, the country’s statistical office said. About 12% of Slovak families, which accounts for 640,000 people, find themselves below the income...

Romanian football team captain Marius Marin has alleged the Hungarian team made racial slurs against his team during the European Championship match on Saturday, posting but later deleting the following post: “These gypsies, as you shouted at us on the...

The Czech Republic’s wealthiest person, the billionaire founder and owner of global investing company PPF group, Petr Kellner, has been killed in a helicopter crash. He was 57. The news of Kellner’s sudden death has shocked the Czech public and...

Poland has ranked at place 50 of 53 countries in Bloomberg’s latest ranking evaluating different strategies for fighting the pandemic, with only Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Mexico ranking lower. Poland ranked worst when it comes to overall numbers of...

Greece’s national recovery plan was given a green light on Monday by the cabinet on Monday and will be presented by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis once Brussels approves the final plan in April, government sources have said. The county’s national recovery...

COVID-19 antibodies can circulate in the body for up to 9 to 10 months, a new study conducted in Vo’ Euganeo, one Italy’s first municipalities isolated as a so-called ‘red zone’ in March of last year and published in the...

When Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda was asked by the Baltic News Service on Monday whether he, like US President Joe Biden, could call Russian President Vladimir Putin a ‘killer’, he said: “Unfortunately, yes.” “I see many signs of blatant disregard...

“By the end of September we expect to have offered all adults in Ireland a COVID-19 vaccine,” said Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly during a debate on the COVID-19 vaccination programme on Monday. “Over the next three months, between April...

60 million doses of the Novavax vaccine will be produced and packaged in North East England under a deal with pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced on Monday by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The vaccine has not yet been approved...

The Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal yesterday dissolved an association providing “official representation” of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a self-proclaimed entity in eastern Ukraine, saying it was “illegal and contrary to the law”, AFP reported. Last September, the Aix-en-Provence high court...

Eyeing low personal popularity ratings for  Armin Laschet, leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU), a group of party members have come out in support for Markus Söder, leader of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the CSU, as the bloc’s joint...

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö has proposed that the 50th anniversary of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe could be harnessed to bring major powers such as the United States, China, and Russia around the same table to discuss...

Johnson & Johnson said Monday (29 March) it would start delivering its single-shot COVID vaccine to Europe on April 19, giving the continent a boost as it struggles to speed up its vaccination drive.

The European Parliament will be ready to ratify the EU's COVID "green" pass in June, a key lawmaker said Monday (29 March), paving the way for easier travels during the key summer season.

Forty pan-European tech companies have penned a letter to MEPs calling for support for bolstered interoperability requirements in the Digital Markets Act (DMA) while stressing the importance of keeping the rules aligned to developments in the area across EU nations.

Tensions between North Macedonia and its southern neighbour Bulgaria, which is blocking Skopje's EU membership bid, should "naturally decline" after the 4 April election in Bulgaria and pave the way for an agreement, North Macedonia's Justice Minister Bojan Marichikj told EURACTIV.

Thousands of British people living in Spain who never claimed residency rights cannot stay there for over 90 days at a time in the wake of full Brexit in January, Spanish authorities have confirmed to The Guardian. Police would not hunt for over-stayers, Spanish sources said, despite recent scare stories in British media, but violators would be asked to leave if identified by the police acting in other routine work.

The stranding of a container ship in the Suez Canal has created disruptions in the global shipping industry that could take weeks and possibly months to clear, top container shipping lines said, Reuters reports. "Even when the canal gets reopened, the ripple effects on global capacity and equipment are significant," the world's largest container shipping company Maersk said in a customer advisory on Monday.