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The Prosecution Office in Charleroi said it would not press charges against the police officers responsible for Slovak citizen who died after he was held in custody at Charleroi airport in 2018. Josez Chovanec was arrested at Charleroi Airport in...

Protestors, who took part in the right-wing and far-right backed “anti-Sanchez” demonstration in Madrid on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose government they say threatens democracy while being the “worst” in the country’s...

Interest payments are approaching record highs in Finland, taking a “giant” three-fold leap compared to last year because of the pandemic and increased government borrowing, the Ministry of Finance’s Director General Mika Niemelä said in a recent interview. State debt...

The Dutch will provide Ukraine with two Patriot missile launchers, an undisclosed number of missiles, and training for Ukrainian soldiers to operate the air defence equipment, Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren and Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra wrote in a letter to...

Asylum applications tripled in Austria last year, making it the EU country with the sharpest increase in applications across the bloc, a European Commission report leaked by die Welt shows. In the European Union, 923,991 people applied for asylum in...

France and Germany tried to display unity during joint government consultations on Sunday after the Franco-German engine considerably lost steam in recent months. The consultations were held to honour the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty which marked the start...

A Council of Europe report published on Monday highlights key vulnerabilities in Monaco’s measures against money laundering and the country risks being placed under intense scrutiny by the Financial Action Task Force.

Bulgarian chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev has accused the Russian authorities of carrying out a hybrid attack against the European Union after the Crimean bridge was blown up. “The investigation of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office categorically found that Bulgaria had...

Moscow will retaliate against French media in Russia after the bank accounts of RT France, the French arm of its state broadcaster, were frozen, Russian news agencies quoting an anonymous foreign ministry source reported Saturday (21 January).

Poland will try to form a smaller coalition of countries eager to deliver German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine if Germany does not give its needed seal of approval, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said after Western Allies failed to agree...

To boost its supply of energy and make Italy an energy hub for Europe, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni went to Algeria, while Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani visited Egypt.

Pier Antonio Panzeri, the alleged mastermind behind the Qatargate, must tell the whole truth to Belgian justice authorities and hide nothing. If he doesn’t, he not only “breaks the deal” but will also be accused of “perverting the course of...

Presidential candidate Andrej Babiš caused an uproar when he questioned his country’s possible assistance to its closest NATO allies in a live broadcast debate ahead of the country’s second round of presidential elections. The moderator of the debate broadcasted by...

A large part of the troubles that Serbia is facing today in finding a solution to the issue of Kosovo arises from a long-standing blind belief that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 is some sort of Holy Grail that holds Kosovo to Serbia, writes Orhan Dragaš.

Western allies on Friday (20 January)dampened Ukraine's hopes for a rapid shipment of battle tanks to boost its firepower for a spring offensive against Russian forces, with the United States urging Kyiv to hold off from mounting such an operation.

Bulgaria is facing new general election in the spring, the country's fifth in two years, after the Socialists on Friday (20 January) gave up on plans to form a working government.

The French Socialist Party held the second round of its leadership race on Thursday (19 January). The two candidates, Olivier Faure and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, are both claiming victory amidst mutual accusations of irregularities in the voting process.

France and Spain want to make social entrepreneurship a European priority, according to an agreement the two countries signed at the Franco-Spanish summit in Barcelona on Thursday (19 January), with France saying it is trying to push the matter globally.

Access to public buildings, coordination of civil works, streamlining of permit procedures and single information points are at the centre of legislation to fast-track the deployment of high-capacity networks like 5G, according to an undated draft obtained by EURACTIV.

The last few years have been a tough time to be a British europhile. Out of the EU, out of the single market, no freedom of movement and no prospect of things getting better any time soon.  This week the...