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The US government prepared and carried out the drone strike against Iranian general Qasem Soleimani without informing its EU and Nato allies. Commentators see Europe torn between loyalty to the Alliance and the desire to demonstrate its own political and diplomatic strength.

Zoran Milanović has prevailed against the incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović in the second round of the presidential election in Croatia. The candidate for the social democratic SDP won almost 53 percent of the vote against his rival from the conservative HDZ, who secured around 47 percent. What changes will this bring in the EU's newest member state?

The way has been cleared for Austria's first conservative-green government. The Greens' Federal Congress voted on Saturday in favour of the coalition with the conservative ÖVP by a clear majority. Have The Greens made too many compromises to attain their first participation in government?

Two coastal cities, Galway in Ireland and Rijeka in Croatia, are this year's European Capitals of Culture.

Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

Two coastal cities, Galway in Ireland and Rijeka in Croatia, are this year's European Capitals of Culture.

Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

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Fertility drugs and injection treatments were to become free with prescription starting on 1 January, minister for family Katalin Novák said on 19 December. This contradicted the prime minister’s instructions published in the state’s official journal on the same day,...

Finland wrapped up its EU presidency at the end of the year and the verdict is in. Unsurprisingly, some observers put more emphasis on the mild success, others on the failures in making progress. There was no lack of ambition,...

Days after the signing of the EastMed pipeline deal between Israel, Cyprus and Greece, and amid a new Middle East crisis, Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis is visiting Washington for official meetings with the US administration. According to government sources, the...

After an airstrike on a military school in the Libyan capital Tripoli that killed at least 30 cadets on Saturday, the status of the expected EU diplomatic mission to Libya, strongly solicited by Italy, has been cast into uncertainty. The...