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Spain's parliament on Thursday (25 August) approved the minority government's energy-saving rules which include limits on air-conditioning use as part of an EU-wide effort to reduce reliance on Russian gas.

While Kosovo is preparing for another COVID-19 wave, the government does not expect it to be as bad as 2021 due to lessons learned and increased vaccination rates, Minister of Health Rifat Latifi told Exit in an exclusive interview. Since...

The organiser of Serbia’s most famous music festival, Exit, has invited Finnish PM Sanna Marin to join a seaside dance festival this weekend, saying her energy and positive attitude were very welcome, Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List reported. Marin, at 36, the...

All agreements from the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue must be implemented, including the Freedom of Movement Agreement from 2011, the EU’s special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajčak, said in Serbia on Thursday. Lajčak tweeted that he had “a difficult but...

Hungary’s Russia-backed expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant received key authorisations from the national Atomic Energy Authority (OAH), opening doors for construction to begin in the fall. On Thursday, OAH published decisions to authorise the nuclear power plant expansion project to...

Hungary's State Audit Office has issued a report about the risks of the country's education system being "too feminine", warning it could hurt the development of boys and create demographic problems.

While individual net-zero targets and climate action are crucial, they won't be enough to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and reverse the biodiversity crisis, writes Giulia Carbone. Companies and financial institutions also need to set ambitious short-term science-based targets, she argues.

European Union and US envoys met officials in Kosovo's ethnically divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica on Thursday (25 August) as longstanding differences between Belgrade and Pristina flared again, triggered by a dispute over car number plates.

While Czechia and Latvia are pushing for an EU-wide visa ban for Russian citizens, it should not affect the Russian minority as “the vast majority” holds Latvian citizenship, Czech Ambassador to Latvia Jana Hynková told EURACTIV Czech Republic. The EU...

German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir has asked the European Commission to end the restricted zone it imposed to mitigate the spread of swine flu in Lower Saxony earlier than planned.

Tonnes of dead fish, beavers, birds and mussels have been recovered from the Oder river, and while the Polish parliamentary inspection revealed nearly 300 sites of illegal wastewater discharge, it is still unclear what and who is responsible for the...

The government announced plans on Thursday to lift the existing legal restrictions to allow families and small businesses access to the regulated natural gas market prices. “The government has decided that it will propose the lifting of existing legal restrictions,...

Spain has offered to host talks to secure peace in Colombia under the country’s new president Gustavo Petro, the first leftist president in the Latin-American nation. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the offer during an interview with W Radio in Colombia during his...

Fortum’s subsidiary, Uniper, the biggest fossil gas importer in Germany, has run into serious problems after Russia decreased deliveries, and it was forced to buy gas from other markets at higher prices to serve its customers according to fixed long-term...

The Dutch city of The Hague on Thursday (25 August) said it would ask for a temporary exemption of EU sanctions against Russia, as it struggles to find a replacement for its contract with Russian gas supplier Gazprom in time.

The employment rate for people aged between 15 and 64 in the second quarter of 2022 reached 73.5%, the highest rate since the current record series began in 1998, according to data released on Thursday by the Central Statistics Office...

Conservative party leadership rivals Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak have both vowed not to impose future lockdowns in the UK, complaining that the tight restrictions imposed to control the spread of COVID-19 went too far.  At the latest event in...

Scientists will map out greenhouse gas emissions as well as other air pollutants in Rotterdam in order to improve measurement methods, Dutch media NL Times reported. Scientists from Wageningen University & Research will use fixed measuring stations, two measuring aircraft,...

Belgium will provide €8 million in non-lethal support to Ukrainian armed forces, the Federal Government announced in a press release on Thursday. The federal council of ministers decided to provide financial assistance to Ukrainian armed forces through the NATO Comprehensive...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her Moroccan counterpart, Nassar Bourita, were keen to signal unity during a meeting in Rabat after tensions over the disputed Western Sahara cooled relations. During Baerbock’s inaugural one-day visit to Morocco on Thursday, the...