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After being grilled by the parliament’s Commerce Committee on Tuesday, the Ownership Steering minister Tytti Tuppurainen, from the Social Democratic Party, was adamant that the Finnish energy company Fortum will not inject more capital into its German subsidiary Uniper.  Read...

Portugal has reported more than 1,000 deaths due to the current heat wave, with the health chief warning on Tuesday (19 July) that the country must gear up to cope with the effects of climate change as temperatures continue to rise.

Dublin has tightened its immigration policy by temporarily blocking visa-free travel to the country for refugees arriving from 20 European states. Starting on Tuesday, Ireland suspended its participation in the European Agreement on the Abolition of Visas for Refugees for...

Three candidates remain in the Conservative party leadership race after Kemi Badenoch was the latest candidate to be eliminated, and the 357 Conservative MPs will decide on the final two on Wednesday, starting a six-week campaign for support from the...

Hot days are already getting hotter due to climate change, said Karin van der Wiel, climate scientist from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Dutch media NL Times reported. The KMNI has issued a code orange across the centre and...

Several left-wing politicians called for the resignation of local government minister Caroline Cayeux on Tuesday after she allegedly made homophobic comments, for which she has apologised. When she was a senator in 2013, Cayeux said that opening marriage and adoption...

Intervention to achieve price reductions on basic foodstuffs is gaining political momentum as calls for uniform national measures to counter increasing inflation gain steam. This could be realised either with a reduction of the value-added tax (VAT) or a price...

Austria’s vehemence at the last meeting of the EU leaders to not leave Western Balkan club hopefuls behind as Brussels accepted Ukraine and Moldova’s candidacy bids has contributed to the positive momentum for the region long stuck in the bloc...

The Prime Minister of the German state of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, called for peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia and stated that the ongoing conflict should be “frozen”. Kretschmer said that the current public discussion is “one-sided” and stressed that...

The UN's aviation agency on Tuesday (19 July) for the first time blamed senior Belarus officials for a hoax last year that grounded a Ryanair Holdings PLC flight and led to the arrest of a dissident reporter.

The Italian government, through the Italian Development Cooperation Agency (AICS), is ploughing some €260 million into Albania and the region, particularly in areas such as the rule of law and economy. AICS presented its annual report in Tirana on Tuesday...

Around 20,000 people, including 15,000 enumerators and 2,200 instructors, will be engaged in a population census, which will be conducted in Serbia from 1 to 31 October, representatives of the Serbian Statistical Office told reporters on Tuesday. Office Assistant Director...

Croatia’s air traffic controllers will go on strike from 7:00 on Thursday, citing being overworked and understaffed, Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List reported, heralding potential trouble at the peak of Croatia’s summer tourist season. In practice, the strike will result in a reduction...

The European Commission has adopted the Slovak Partnership agreement, a key document for launching investments as part of the bloc’s Cohesion Policy between 2023 and 2027. The agreement was signed on Monday by Regional Development Minister Veronika Remišová with European...

Ιn Europe, 61m people live with diabetes and 22m people are undiagnosed and not receiving any treatment. Screening and early detection of all types diabetes is important, as timely and adequate diabetes management prevents or delays complications and premature death.

Vaccination centres in the Czech Republic are now offering the fourth COVID-19 shot to anyone over 18, which has led to high interest in Prague’s centres and even short queues. Centres are inoculating people even without previous registration. While the...

The delegation of the European Parliament budgetary control committee (CONT) began its visit to Poland on Tuesday to make sure that the Polish government is managing the EU money correctly before it gets the first tranche of recovery money. The...

Russia is preparing the annexation of Ukrainian territory and is installing proxy officials in areas under its control as it seeks to exert total control over its gains in the east, the White House said on 19 July.

The prosecutor’s office did not initiate a single investigation into corruption at the highest levels of government in 2021, despite US sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act, the annual report of the non-governmental organisation Anti-Corruption Fund presented on Tuesday. Bulgaria...

Hungarian officials are in Brussels this week to negotiate with the European Commission over longstanding rule of law and democracy concerns, with Budapest ‘optimistic’ the biggest hurdle standing in the way of billions of euros can be cleared before the...