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The Kosovo Force (KFOR) NATO-led peacekeeping forces closely monitor the situation in the country’s north and are ready to react to enable freedom of movement should local Serbs seek to block roads as 1 September approaches. As of 1 September,...

Albanians spent more than €100 million on private healthcare in 2021, despite it being free in state hospitals, as the government is set to slash public funding further in the budget. Accounts filed by the country’s top private hospitals showed...

Slovenia will reduce the value-added tax (VAT) on energy electricity, gas, biomass and remote heating from 22% to 9.5% for eight months starting in September under legislative amendments passed by the parliament on Tuesday, the latest in a series of...

Bulgaria will start considering COVID-19 as influenza and other respiratory viruses, Professor Radka Argirova announced after the expert group at the Ministry of Health meeting, which monitors the epidemic situation in the country. This approach, to be adopted as the...

The economic ties between the two neighbouring countries continue to grow stronger despite continuing political tensions and mutual accusations between Serbia and Croatia. Bilateral trade in the first six months of 2022 surged 35.4% year-on-year, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce...

Slovakia will send 30 Czechoslovak combat vehicles BVP to Ukraine in exchange for 15 older Leopard-2 type tanks from Germany in a deal signed between Slovakia and Germany on Tuesday in Bratislava, during a visit of the German defence ministry’s...

Polish President Andrzej Duda and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy led a walk in Kyiv to honour the world leaders that showed solidarity with Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion, with Duda’s name to be first inscribed, news...

Angolans will vote on 24 August in a tight race in which the opposition coalition has its best chance, as millions left out of its oil-fuelled booms are expected to express frustration with nearly five decades of MPLA rule.

Two Canadair aircraft were mobilised to fight forest fires in northern Portugal at the country’s request and have also activated the satellite mapping system to ascertain the area burnt, the European Commission announced on Tuesday. “The European Commission has mobilised...

Portuguese airline TAP’s results in the first half of 2022 are better than what was foreseen in the company’s restructuring plan, Chief Executive, Christine Ourmières-Widener, said on Tuesday. “We are better than the plan, with traffic recovery and yield [earnings] showing...

The Spanish government plans to hold a summit of leaders of the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean in Madrid in the second half of 2023, coinciding with its presidency of the EU Council. Official sources confirmed on Tuesday that...

Prime Minister Sanna Marin apologised on Tuesday for a new party circulating on TikTok, where two partygoers can be seen kissing each other at the prime minister’s official residence. In the video, two women (not including Marin) are seen kissing...

The Netherlands will provide an additional €75 million in aid and investment support for Ukraine’s war efforts and reconstruction, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Liesje Schreinemacher and Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren announced on Monday in Kyiv. Schreinemacher and...

The government must activate the first phase of the country’s energy emergency plan amid soaring energy prices, centrist opposition party Les Engagés said on Tuesday. To guarantee the security of Belgium’s gas supplies, the government adopted a plan with three pillars: a...

Germany will ship additional heavy weapons worth more than €500 million to Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Tuesday evening during his trip to Canada. The promised weapon systems include three Iris-T air defence systems and twelve armoured recovery vehicles,...

By attacking Ukraine, Russia gained nothing and lost virtually everything, said Czech President Miloš Zeman, considered one of the Kremlin’s biggest EU friends before the war. Zeman made the comment on Tuesday at a meeting with Czech diplomats at Prague...

Social Democrat Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson declared on Tuesday that she stands against ‘ethnic clusters’ in the country in a bid to defend the earlier controversial declarations of her Integration Minister on “non-Nordic” residents. In the run-up to the...

The Vienna government failed to obtain a two-thirds majority necessary to enact its “natural gas steering regulation” due to the opposition parties withholding their support, preventing coal power plants from starting back up. Austria, heavily reliant on Russian gas, sought...

The voices calling for cancelling EuroPride 2022 in Belgrade are dangerous, European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia Vladimir Bilčik said on Tuesday. EuroPride is a pan-European event in the same vein as LGBT Pride but hosted by a different European city...

Before the winter arrives, Ukraine has an urgent need: to rebuild homes and facilities. As the brutal war of aggression waged by Putin’s regime continues to take its toll on people across the country, our determination to show that Ukraine...