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The US and the EU have agreed to aim to cut emissions of the planet-warming gas methane by around a third by the end of this decade and are pushing other major economies to join them, according to leaked documents.

USR PLUS remains committed to the reforms included in the governing program despite the fact that its representatives have left the government, said Dacian Ciolos, co-president of the party. Ciolos, who is also the chair of the Renew Europe group...

Croatian Sovereignists, a radical right political party, have said they will not give up on the national kuna currency without a democratic fight. The campaign to fight against the euro started two years ago, but on Monday, Sovereignists raised their...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Belgrade on 13 September that Serbia had progressed in reforms, but both Serbia and the entire region still had a long way to go in their EU membership bid. “I know that the perception...

Slovak Prime minister Eduard Heger and his cabinet apologised for the Order on the Legal Status of Jews, also known as the Jewish Code, legislation adopted by the Nazi-allied wartime Slovak state that existed from 1939 until 1945. “The Slovak...

On the eve of the inauguration of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bringing Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea, the Polish government's plenipotentiary for strategic energy infrastructure, Piotr Naimski, has confirmed that Poland will become independent of Russian gas supplies from 2023.

Czechia’s agricultural ministry is against the “Nutri-score”, a label system converting the nutritional value of food into an overall A-E score. According to the ministry, Nutri-score is too simplistic because it does not consider the size of portion and general...

Shortcomings in the EU effort to return unsuccessful asylum seekers are "encouraging illegal migration" instead of stemming it, the bloc's watchdog institution warned in a report Monday (13 September).

The International Association of Judges (UIM) has alerted the international community and the respective governments to the “terrible problem” of Afghan women judges, whose lives are in danger under the new Taliban regime in the country, the UIM president said...

More than 130,000 young people aged 12 to 15 were vaccinated against COVID-19 over the weekend, the vast majority concluding their vaccination, announced the task force that coordinates the process on Monday. The same source told Lusa that on Saturday and Sunday,...

The stabbing of five people – including a six-year-old – in the Italian coastal city of Rimini by a Somalian asylum seeker, has become the latest point of contention within the ruling coalition that supports the government of Mario Draghi....

The GB news channel, which has positioned itself as a conservative rival to the BBC and Sky News, suffered a major setback on Monday when its flagship presenter Andrew Neil resigned as chairman and lead presenter, just three months after...

Supporters of carbon removal technologies often confuse carbon capture and storage (CCS) with negative emissions. They also risk greenwashing industry claims of climate neutrality, and encourage massive investments in false climate 'solutions' that risk becoming stranded assets, writes Wijnand Stoefs.

The Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), introduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, provides employers whose turnover has been significantly hit by the crisis with a weekly subsidy to allow them to continue to pay their staff. The decision...

As the French minister for Transports, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, announced on Monday, the French government will invest 170 million euros per year until 2024 in order to double the transport of goods by rail by the end of the decade. This...

Faced with historically low opinion polling figures, German conservatives led by chancellor hopeful Armin Laschet, were able to turn the tide and register a win in the municipal elections in Lower Saxony. The conservative CDU party had beat the poll-leading...

The ongoing political crisis in Bulgaria, which will have to hold its third parliamentary election in less than a year, leaves few chances that Sofia will lift its veto on the European integration of North Macedonia before the end of...

After eight years, Erna Solberg's tenure as prime minister ended last night: Norway made a left turn and a centre-left government will take over.

Turkey has refused to release jailed human rights defender Osman Kavala despite a ruling by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights. "In the face of Turkey's persistent and flagrant defiance of its obligation to implement the Kavala judgment, the Committee of Ministers should trigger infringement proceedings against Turkey," said Aisling Reidy, senior legal adviser at Human Rights Watch, in a statement on Monday.

Germany's energy regulator on Monday (13 September) said it had four months to complete a certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline after receiving all necessary documents for an application for an operating licence from the pipeline company.