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A  judge on the Zagreb Municipal Court prohibited Jelena Jindra, a journalist from non-profit portal H-Alter, from writing articles about the director of the Polyclinics for the protection of children and youth. Jindra commented on the judge’s decision, saying that...

Upcoming party leadership elections could determine the future of the Romanian government as the USR PLUS party and the National Liberal Party (PNL) are soon to elect their party presidents in hotly contested races. Dacian Ciolos, the chair of the...

Bulgarian police officers and employees of the special services (SANS) made a surprise inspection in the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC), trying to understand the reason for the high electricity prices on the energy exchange. The energy regulator said...

Dutch MEP and head of the European Parliament mission to Slovakia, Sophie in ‘t Veld “should go home and have a joint”, said former prime minister Robert Fico on Facebook, criticising members of her mission for not meeting with opposition...

It’s likely that Saturday’s outage of the opposition primaries’ IT system was caused by an attack that appears to have resulted from an easily avoidable error, based on information currently available, Telex reported. The latest information shows the attack was not necessarily...

The EU is today a derailed project that became oppressive, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, one of Poland’s longest-serving MEPs and co-creator of the Natolin Campus of the College of Europe who was a leading protagonist for Polish EU membership in the 1990s,...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawicki cancelled his planned trip to Budapest’s two-day Demography Summit on 23-24 September due to the current dispute between Czechia and Poland over the Turów coal mine, a Polish government spokesperson has confirmed. According to the...

Italy invests as little as it can in dementia even though the disease costs billions to the country’s economy, experts in the filed told EURACTIV Italy.

The use of masks will only be required on public transport, in supermarkets, homes, hospitals, entertainment venues and big events from 1 October in Portugal, once the third phase of lifting measures announced Thursday kick in. Prime Minister António Costa...

Less than 48 hours after the Spanish Central Bank (Banco de España) and the OECD had predicted a robust recovery of the Iberian country’s economy this year and in 2022, fresh data released on Thursday by Spain’s National Statistics Institute...

The Italian Senate has approved the criminal trial reform on Thursday, part of a set of broader justice reforms Brussels has asked Italy to enforce so it can obtain Next Generation EU funding. Italy is known for its excessively lengthy...

In a surprise statement on Thursday, Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC) announced that it is proceeding with a €750 million capital share increase which will see the state lose its majority. The state, which currently owns 51% of the company’s...

The Technology Industries of Finland, a lobbying organisation for the technology industry representing some 1,600 companies, is warning that the acute and deteriorating shortage of skilled labour could endanger the country’s economic growth. It may also impact welfare services and...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin chaired a meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday, focusing on the topic of climate and security. Ireland, which holds the Council presidency this month, used the debate to urge greater attention to the interplay between...

The European Commission announced on Thursday that it would open infringement procedures against Austria, Finland, Luxembourg, and Croatia for failing to transpose the EU rules on combatting terrorism. The EU rules aim at criminalising and sanctioning terrorism-related offences, such as...

Corporate Europe Observatory, Observatoires des Multinationales and foodwatch have launched a petition on Wednesday, urging the French executive to decline any sponsorship offers when it takes on the rotating EU Council presidency in 2022. “There can be no excuse for...

European Union countries are struggling to agree their negotiating position for the COP26 climate change conference, with rifts emerging over timeframes for emissions-cutting pledges, according to officials and documents seen by Reuters.

Exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was arrested in Italy on Thursday (23 September), his lawyer and an aide said, four years after fleeing following an independence referendum that Madrid ruled unconstitutional.

Ditching French submarines leads to a brawl, turns out Viktor Orban isn’t that tall, and European Commission proposes a single digital charger for all.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday (23 September) announced measures worth three billion euros to keep gas and electricity bills down this winter as power prices soar across Europe.