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The Head of the Human Rights Directorate of the Council of Europe, Christophe Poirel, and representatives of the European Court of Human Rights will hold talks next week with government officials and senior diplomatic officials in Bosnia on the implementation...

Croatia’s ministry of foreign and European affairs has rejected as unfounded a diplomatic note sent at the end of January by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign ministry related to the announcement of plans to declare an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in...

The Serbian government has secured 5,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for the immunisation of medical staff in Republika Srpska (RS), the office of the Serb member and president of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, announced Thursday. It was...

Following a gradual but persistent decrease in coronavirus infections and hospitalisations, Slovenia has entered the orange tier, with the government deciding on Thursday for a sweeping easing of restrictions, including the reopening of all stores and primary schools as of...

Female opposition MPs said on Thursday that they had collected signatures for an amendment to the Value Added Tax Act which proposes that VAT on sanitary pads and tampons, the so-called women’s tax, be reduced from 25 to 5%. That...

Pro-Russian businessman and politician Vesselin Mareshki, and anti-Russian nationalist Valeri Simeonov have signed an agreement to run together in Bulgaria’s upcoming parliamentary elections set for 4 April. This formation, which has come as a surprise, aims to garner at least...

Slovakia’s number of active cases could fall below zero on the Worldometer due to the way the authorities report the number of recovered patients, The Slovak Spectator reports.  Several analysts working with the Slovak coronavirus data have recently pointed out...

The Czech parliament has rejected the extension of the state of emergency proposed by the government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO, Renew). This means that the state of emergency, which is the legal basis for all restrictive measures applied...

There will be a recovery plan for the health of Poles, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced during a Patients Organisations Forum on Thursday, noting that it will cover five areas. The five areas include the national Oncology Network, the National...

Members of the Five Star Movement (M5S) – the largest party in the Italian parliament – decided via an online vote on Thursday to support the new government of prime-minister designate and former European Central Bank chief, Mario Draghi. The...

London has lost its place as Europe’s largest share trading centre to Amsterdam in the first sign that new EU-UK trade relations will hurt the UK’s financial services industry. About €9.2 billion worth of shares were traded on Amsterdam exchanges...

Given the spread of the more-contagious coronavirus mutations in the Czech Republic and Tyrol, Germany will be implementing further entry restrictions and temporary border controls, a spokesperson for the interior ministry said on Thursday. The measures, the first entry ban...

Four EU member states were offered to sign separate COVID-19 vaccine agreements, outside of the EU deals framework, with British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in order to get vaccines faster than others, Czech PM Andrej Babiš unveiled on Thursday (11 February)....

Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday (11 February) declared victory over what he said was foreign attempts to overthrow his government and showed no signs of heeding the embattled opposition's calls for him to resign.

Governments miss out on billions of tax revenues annually as the result of tax havens such as The Netherlands. The Coronavirus pandemic tellingly shows how such tax havens undermine public policy and cohesion within the EU, argues Boris Kowalski.

The RWE case against the implementation of the Dutch climate target provides additional evidence that EU climate law needs provisions to end protection of foreign investment in fossil fuels, argues Dr Yamina Saheb.

High-ranking representatives of the European Commission's DG Connect will brief EU lawmakers as part of an 'in camera' meeting on Friday (12 February), after a contingent of parliament members wrote to the EU executive to voice their concerns on guidance issued for the EU's copyright directive.

Turkey will only join talks to resolve decades of dispute over Cyprus with a proposal to establish two states on the island, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said, adding previous failed proposals should not be on the agenda.

Spain's labour ministry, trade unions, and employer’s associations have agreed this week in principle to a law improving the rights of food delivery workers employed by global digital platforms like Deliveroo, granting them the status of “permanent staff” instead of self-employed. EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Von der Leyen still dodges the blame, Borrell’s Russia excuses are incredibly lame and Luxembourg tax scandal is EU’s shame.