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Bulgaria will hold its third parliamentary election in just one year as parliament will be dismissed in mid-September and the president must schedule early elections in late October or early November. At the same time, the country will also hold...

Before the official part of his Bosnia and Herzegovina visit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived at the wedding of the daughter of Bakir Izetbegović, the leader of the biggest Bosniak SDA party. While Izetbegović was previously a guest at...

A geothermal power plant in the UK has discovered the highest concentration of lithium ever found in geothermal fluid, opening the door to a new business model for the renewable energy source.

Slovakia’s police president Peter Kovařík faces prosecution for the crime of abuse of power by a public official as well as the crime of obstructing justice, making him the third police chief in a row to face charges. According to...

Budapest city council will look at withdrawing the capital’s consent for the World Athletics Championship on Wednesday as opposition mayor Gergely Karácsony claimed Orbán’s government broke the Student City deal with plans for a Chinese university campus. Green mayor Gergely...

Norway’s investment of billions in fighting overseas deforestation follows the West’s hypocritical relationship with climate change, once again shifting the blame on developing nations whilst diverting attention away from the West’s culpability in environmental destruction, writes Muhammed Magassy.

Czech government will discuss approving booster COVID-19 shots to certain groups of the population, including adults over 65, at-risk populations and essential workers, on Monday. These target groups could start receiving the booster shots by mid-September, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch...

Police and border guards detained 13 people – 12 Polish citizens and one Dutch – at the Polish-Belarusian border in Usnarz Górny, who attempted to destroy a barbed wire fence being constructed as part of the government’s response to the...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to announce a government reshuffle on Monday amid growing public anger over wildfires that destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares and properties earlier this month. Although nothing has been made public yet, Greek...

Estonia on Monday is set to elect a new president to succeed Kersti Kaljulaid, who has been in office for the last five years. Presidential candidates are selected by political parties in the 101-seat parliament, Riigikogu. A candidate needs the...

The Finnish and German defence administrations are together investigating the cooperation of manned and unmanned weapons systems and platforms in various situations. The first tests and flight demonstrations carried out by the two countries’ armed forces took place in the...

The former leader of the populist Freedom Party and vice-chancellor under Kurz’ first administration, Heinz-Christian Strache, was sentenced to a suspended prison term of 15 months over a party donations scandal on Friday. The court ruled that the €12,000 the...

France would not leave Iraq in the event of an American withdrawal, French President Emmanuel Macron told TF1 on Sunday evening from the city of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. “We have special forces engaged in these...

EU member states should take part in the group of countries that will help Afghanistan recover, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said in an interview. “The countries of the European Union, the countries around Afghanistan and the neighboring countries Muslim countries,...

The post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform agreement struck in June introduced a new concept of social dimension that bears the potential to build a third "pillar" for the EU's farming subsidy programme in the near future.

France, Britain and Germany are working on a United Nations proposal aimed at establishing a safe zone in Kabul to allow safe passage for people trying to leave Afghanistan, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday (29 August).

Social Democrat Olaf Scholz won a televised debate on Sunday between the three leading candidates to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor after Germany's federal election on 26 September, a survey by pollster Forsa showed, Reuters writes. The snap poll showed 36 percent of voters believed Scholz won, ahead of 30 percent for Greens candidate Annalena Baerbock and 25 percent for Armin Laschet, the candidate of Merkel's centre-right CDU/CSU.

France, Germany, and the United Kingdom are working on a United Nations proposal aimed at establishing a safe zone in Kabul to allow passage for people trying to leave Afghanistan, French president Emmanuel Macron said, Reuters reports. Macron, who said France had begun discussions with the Taliban on further evacuations, said the resolution would be brought on Monday to an emergency UN Security Council meeting of veto-wielding members.

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank on Sunday (29 August) for the first official Israeli-Palestinian talks since Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took office in June.

The Italian coastguard picked up 539 people from a fishing boat drifting near the small Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on Sunday in one of the largest single rescue operations on record, the BBC reports. The asylum seekers, who had come rom Libya, included women and children, and many of them showed signs of having been physically abused prior to embarking, according to charity MSF (Doctors Without Borders).