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Greece is still on tenterhooks over the agreed solution to its name dispute with Macedonia. After Prime Minister Tsipras won a confidence vote last week, tens of thousands took to the street on Sunday to demonstrate against the agreement between Athens and its neighbour to the north. The deal is to be put to vote in parliament on Thursday. The Greek press blames various camps for the polarisation.

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The top US diplomat for European affairs, Wess Mitchell, has resigned, according to his resignation letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday (22 January) at a time of strains in the trans-Atlantic relationship over US President Donald Trump’s policies.

Tax evasion deprives Europeans of roughly five times as much money as is spent in this year's EU budget, a study by the European parliament's social democrat S&D group has found. The EU tax gap might be €825bn a year and might exceed healthcare spending in half of all EU member states, the study found.

Spokesman confirms to EUobserver that centre-right Italian wants to come back as MEP and serve again as parliament president.

Space is becoming weaponised in a race between China and the US. Now EU commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska says it is time for Europe to debate wether to follow suit.

British ferry and shipping freight operator P&O will shift the registration of its UK vessels to Cyprus ahead of Britain’s departure from the European Union, in part to keep its tax arrangements in the bloc, the company said on Tuesday...

The Romanian EU presidency plans to hold a EU-Turkey summit in early March, foreign minister Teodor Melescanu said in Brussels on Tuesday, according to Turkish media. The summit would take place in Bucharest with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The last EU-Turkey summit was held in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna in March 2018, during Bulgaria's term as president of the EU.

Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has for the first time suggested a separate customs agreement with the UK may be needed to avoid a hard border with Northern Ireland in a no-deal Brexit scenario. In a private meeting with party leaders on Tuesday evening Varadkar warned that the EU could otherwise move control away from Ireland and onto the continent, meaning Ireland and the UK were treated as one block.

Leaving the EU in March without a deal would pose risks to Scotch whisky’s current healthy rates of export growth, the Scotch Whisky Association said on Tuesday (22 January).

Bulgaria's justice ministry said on Tuesday it plans to stop selling controversial "golden passports" to wealthy foreigners, because the scheme had failed to bring any significant economic benefits. Bulgaria, Cyprus and Malta grant citizenship against investment, which then opens the door to most other EU countries. The practice is expected to be criticised by the EU Commission in a report on Wednesday into residency schemes in 20 EU states.

James Dyson, the billionaire Brexit supporter who revolutionised vacuum cleaners with his bagless technology, is moving his head office to Singapore from Britain to be closer to his company's fastest-growing markets.

State-run oil firm PKN Orlen has offered liquidity to newspaper distributor Ruch ahead of a possible plan to take over the company, two sources familiar with the matter said.

The secretary general of the OECD, Ángel Gurría, believes that extending Brexit talks until July could be feasible in order to ensure an agreement is sealed. Speaking to EURACTIV.com in an exclusive interview in Davos, the Mexican diplomat and economist expressed his concerns about the paralysis spreading in many countries in Europe.

Azerbaijan has dropped fresh charges against a jailed anti-corruption blogger who has denounced his prosecution as politically motivated, prosecutors said Tuesday (22 January).

The energy regulators of Spain and France have rejected an investment request to build the central section of the planned Midi-Catalonia (MidCat) gas pipeline linking the two countries, in a move that could spell the end of the entire project, green activists said.

Two ships ablaze in the Black Sea region, leaving at least 10 crew members dead, caught fire while transferring fuel mid-sea after one vessel was barred from using its usual port in southern Russia due to US sanctions risk, two sources told Reuters.