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Slovenia is very much in favour of Croatia’s entry into the Schengen zone, said Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnar, who met her Croatian counterpart Davor Božinović on Monday. The ministers discussed preparations for an agreement on cooperation between the two countries’...

The only oil port in Bulgaria has been given a concession to the Russian company “Lukoil Neftochim” for 35 years for €500,000 per year, said the co-chairman of the “Change Continues” party, Asen Vassilev. Vasilev was the deputy prime minister...

Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela called for Europe to decouple gas and electricity prices to deal with the current crisis and announced an extraordinary Energy Council on 9 September. Síkela, whose country is currently leading the EU Council,...

The textbook for the subject ‘History and the Present’, considered right-wing and biased, was approved for the school curriculum starting from 1 September, causing outrage, while publishers have created an alternative available from the same date. The book made international...

The EU is complacent in key areas like climate change and foreign policy and often fails to think strategically, Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho said on Monday. The EU can respond capably to various crises, and there have been several...

In face of French opposition, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are set to defend their joint position favouring an increase in energy interconnections in the EU, particularly the Midcat pipeline, which if constructed, would link...

Sweden will send Ukraine a new €93 million aid package, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson told Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at a press conference on Monday. Sweden’s aid to Ukraine will be divided into reconstruction and defence aid, said the...

Energy supplier Wien Energie is asking the federal government for a €6 billion bailout to prevent risking two million customers’ contracts, though it assures its supply is secure and no losses have to be compensated. Due to increasing electricity prices,...

In the most recent of Berlin’s now regular arms swap deals, struck by Chancellor Scholz and Czech Prime Minister Fiala, the Czech Republic is to get 15 German tanks in exchange for delivering tanks to Ukraine. “I am very happy...

High gas prices mean city councils in the Netherlands are struggling to find alternatives to Russian supplies and meet an EU deadline for governments and public bodies to quit existing contracts with Russian companies. High energy prices mean new contracts...

The European Union expressed regret at Serbia’s decision to cancel or postpone  ‘EuroPride’, noting that the EU bloc supports equality and opposes any form of discrimination as Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met with Greens/EFA MEPs. Vucic announced on Sunday that...

Schools may be forced to shut down in winter due to the dramatic increase in electricity and heating prices, schools and municipalities representatives have warned. For schools in southern-Slovak city Rimavská Sobota, energy bills will rise by more than 350%....

New aid packages, including those already planned, will not be adjusted to face rising energy prices, but an aid package could be looked into to help those struggling with sky-rising energy bills, Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Economy Minister Daniele...

Finland’s fifth and largest nuclear power reactor, Olkiluoto 3, saw its output drop to zero due to a turbine failure on Monday, yet another setback for the reactor still in the trial phase but already supplying the country’s grid. Built...

French and Polish companies must work together to reinvest massively in the nuclear sector, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told France’s largest employer trade union conference, MEDEF, on Monday. The MEDEF conference, which brings together the most important actors in...

EU foreign ministers, meeting in Prague on 30 and 31 August, may agree tightening the issuance of visas for Russians and start debating a wider ban on tourist visas though there is no agreement on that, EU officials said.

Shelling targeted Baghdad's high-security Green Zone Monday (29 August), a security source said, after Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said he was quitting politics, sparking chaos in which 12 of his supporters were killed.

Angola's President Joao Lourenco won a second five-year term on Monday (29 August) after his MPLA party emerged victorious with a thin majority in last week's closely fought election, extending its decades-long rule in the oil-rich country.

Greek lawmakers on Monday voted in favour of setting up an inquiry commission to probe the phone tapping of an opposition leader that led Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to sack the head of the country’s intelligence service (EYP), Reuters reported. The...

The European Commission and the European Parliament nominated the Italian island of Ventotene the historical capital of the moral and intellectual construction of European values in a ceremony on Monday (29 August) held amid a seminar on European federalism.