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Europe's wealthiest nations face rising risks of civil unrest over the winter, including street protests and demonstrations, due to high energy prices and mounting costs of living, according to a risk consultancy firm.

Following the lead of authorities across Europe, the Albanian Electricity Cooperation (KESH) has called on citizens to save energy as a long, expensive winter looms on the horizon. Europe is in the grips of an energy crisis as some countries’...

The authorities of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Bosniak-Croat entity called on citizens and businesses on Thursday to use energy rationally and asked state-owned companies to draft savings plans, particularly for cooling and heating of buildings, Croatia’s HRT reported. Bosnia and Herzegovina is made...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a “destabilising factor” for the country and citizens cannot stand his “authoritarian” attitude, senior socialist lawmaker Michalis Katrinis told EURACTIV after it was unveiled that the secret services bugged the phone of Greek socialist...

The ‘Vision of Summer’ wine fair took place in Belgrade on Thursday, organised within the framework of the Open Balkans initiative, a somewhat controversial regional collaboration between Serbia, Albania, and North Macedonia. According to the Serbian presidency, the leaders of...

EU lawmakers from several political groups called on Serbian authorities to lift its ban on the EuroPride march set for September, though the letter, signed by 145 Parliament members, not including  EPP President Manfred Weber and Parliament President Roberta Metsola. The...

The Romanian government will keep in place a scheme to cap energy prices until the end of August 2023, ministers announced Thursday. Launched last year, the scheme was originally planned only for the cold season, but it was prolonged in...

We are faced with an almighty challenging question. How to deliver more food, more sustainably, under increasingly testing circumstances?

Hungarian teachers’ union leaders held a protest on Thursday wearing all black to “mourn” the beginning of the school year as the government’s demands for higher pay and better conditions are yet to be heard. The leadership of the Hungarian...

The US administration said on 1 September it cannot hold talks with Moscow on a treaty to replace the last US-Russian pact limiting strategic nuclear arms until inspections of the two countries' nuclear weapons sites, which are currently paused, resume.

The economy ministry has proposed a cap on the gas prices for households, and its minister, Richard Sulík, hopes to expand the current price cap on electricity prices. A price cap on gas is a novelty in Slovakia, as the...

Representatives of Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PIS), said they would demand about €1.3 trillion in war reparations from Germany on Thursday, the 83rd anniversary of Germany’s attack on Poland. PiS representatives, including its president Jarosław Kaczyński and Prime...

Measures to help Portuguese families cope with rising living costs will be announced on Monday, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa told reporters on Thursday, stating that “strength comes from staying calm”. At a joint press conference with Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi,...

In Spain, the VAT on gas will drop from 21% to 5% from October until the end of the year to help mitigate the impact of energy price hikes faced by those most vulnerable, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on...

The United Nations’s agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) is “an agent of stability” in the region, but the lack of funds and the deprioritisation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict threatens the agency’s work in a “volatile region”, the agency’s head warned...

Vienna’s Social Democratic Mayor Michael Ludwig’s failure to reveal the poor financial state of Wien Energie has caused disgruntlement with its liberal coalition partner at the state level and the governing Greens at the federal level. In Vienna, the social...

The Dutch government will not budge on its aim of halving nitrogen emissions by 2030 anytime soon despite objections from farmers, Dutch media NL Times confirmed. Farmers’ organisations hoped to push the deadline back to 2035, but the government refused to budge during...

Electricity and gas bills will increase significantly from October for the third time since May because of the sharp increase in wholesale gas prices, announced on Thursday the country’s largest electricity provider, Electric Ireland. Residential electricity bills are expected to...

The government announced its much-anticipated electricity package that will include measures to tackle the effects of rising energy prices on Thursday. The measures, which are part of the government budget plan for 2023, include the reduction VAT on electricity from...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.