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EPP’s Fine Gael party spent more funds than any other Irish political party on campaigning for last year’s European Parliamentary elections as it spent a total of €1,041,846 and won four seats, which increased to five after Brexit. This figure...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson evoked Britain’s war-time spirit on Tuesday as he vowed to build a ‘new Jerusalem’ while the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Giving his keynote address at this year’s virtual Conservative party conference, Johnson promised...

After some 150 activists from the Extinction Rebellion environmental group did a sit-down protest on Saturday (3 October) in a street in Helsinki, which ended with police pepper-spraying protesters at close range and arresting 51 people, including three minors, Interior...

During the first live summit with international partners in Brussels following the outbreak of the pandemic on the continent, the EU and Ukraine leaders met on Thursday (6 October) to take stock of cooperation amid what critics say is a...

SUV sales in France have multiplied by seven in only ten years, said World Wildlife Fund in its report published on Tuesday. From 2008 to 2018, these heavier and more polluting vehicles will be “the second-largest source of growth in...

The Belgian government has tightened COVID-19 restrictions, taking effect at the end of the week, to counter a sharp rise in infections across the country. So far, Belgians have been able to see up to five people without social distancing...

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) presented a report yesterday claiming that there is no structural problem with right-wing extremism in Germany’s security forces. The report provided an overview of suspected cases across the country from January 2017 to March 2020....

The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Central European Media Enterprises (“CME”) by PPF Group NV (“PPF”). This means that Petr Kellner, who owns the PPF investment group and keeps a low profile despite being the Czech Republic’s...

A Greek court will rule today whether neo-nazi Golden Dawn party is a criminal organisation and if therefore there was a political plan for the crimes its members executed in a heavy indictment. “The longest trial in Greek history and...

Germany's Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said talks on Tuesday (6 October) between energy ministers from the 27 EU members had shown that a majority want to update the emissions-cutting target by 2030 for the bloc, on its way to climate neutrality by 2050.

Anti-government protesters scuffled with vigilante groups in Kyrgyzstan’s capital of Bishek overnight, after authorities in the Central Asian nation annulled parliamentary election results.

Wednesday, 7 October

Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

Wednesday, 7 October

Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

The Kremlin issued a new appeal for an end to hostilities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday (6 October) after Moscow’s foreign intelligence chief said the mountain enclave could become a launch pad for Islamist militants to enter Russia.

EU countries are permitted to carry out the indiscriminate transmission and retention of communications data only when there is a 'serious threat to national security', the bloc's highest court ruled on Tuesday (6 October).

French lawmakers on Tuesday (6 October) approved a draft bill allowing sugar beet growers to use pesticides that are banned to protect honeybees, a move welcomed by farmers hit by crop disease but condemned by green groups as more backsliding by the government.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called on the European Union to take tough action against oligarchs close to the Kremlin as he continues his recovery in Germany after being poisoned by a nerve agent in the banned Novichok family.

A German court on Wednesday (7 October) puts a Russian man on trial over the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park allegedly on Moscow's orders, a case that risks worsening acrimonious ties between Germany and Russia.

None of the world's major coal, oil and and gas companies are on track to limit climate warming to 2°C by 2050, according to new research released on Wednesday (7 October).

Some sixty eight members of a Greek neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, face jail terms of between five and 20 years if found guilty of crimes, including murder and attempted murder, in a Greek court verdict due Wednesday. The court will also rule if the party itself is a criminal organisation. The Golden Dawn defendants include its leader Nikos Michaloliakos and 18 ex-MPs, who won office in Greek elections in 2012.