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The government rejected calls to replace the licence fee system that funds the country’s public broadcaster with direct government funding made by a group established to review the state and outlook of Ireland’s media landscape. The report was published on Tuesday following...

Over 1,000 patients with COVID-19 are being treated in hospitals, which is the highest amount in 11 weeks, Dutch media NL Times reports. A total of 1,008 patients were being treated for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the highest number of hospitalised infections since...

The two neighbouring countries signed an agreement to increase collaboration on Tuesday, in which they also recommended other member states follow suit amid the current energy crisis. German Economy Minister Robert Habeck visited Austrian Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler for the...

Alongside the rest of the EU, France is facing serious uncertainties about the security of its energy supply for this winter. Despite government assurances that gas stocks will be replenished in time, many are becoming increasingly concerned about coming shortages and potential electricity blackouts.

Macedonian Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski has dismissed claims by Hristijan Mickoski, leader of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, that an ethnic Albanian had tried to assassinate him during a protest in Skopje on 6 July. During protests against the French proposal designed...

Israel and Poland decided to restore diplomatic relations after last year’s conflict over a controversial law on Jewish properties that led Israel to withdraw its ambassador from Poland. Israel’s new Ambassador Jaakov Livne presented his credentials to Polish President Andrzej...

The National Public Health Organisation (NPHO) has chosen to announce new infections once a week amid the tourist season and the rise of COVID-19 cases, which sparked negative reactions on social media. The announcement was made on Tuesday, prompting negative...

Europeans could soon receive boosters from French Sanofi two years after the pandemic’s start in the pharmaceutical giant’s bid to rebound after the vaccine race fiasco. The pharmaceutical company developed last June, in partnership with the British laboratory GSK, a...

France’s new foreign minister said on Tuesday (12 July) there were only a few weeks to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, although a senior US official made clear Washington had set no such deadline. Catherine Colonna told...

The Irish government on Tuesday (!2 July) staved off the threat of a snap election by winning a confidence vote by 85 votes to 66 and accused the opposition Sinn Féin of a ‘cynical political stunt’. 

Plans by four EU countries to place coal-fired power plants on standby in case of a serious disruption to their gas supply from Russia will only have a negligible impact on the climate, according to a report by energy think tank Ember published on Wednesday (13 July).

Nine European Union states said on Tuesday (12 July) that they would continue working with the six Palestinian civil society groups that Israel designated terrorist associations last year, citing a lack of evidence for that claim. Israel designated the Palestinian...

Two months after the EU Commission's proposal of up to €9 billion to keep the Ukrainian state solvent, EU finance ministers on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for €1 billion in financial help that is backed by the EU budget.

The German Federal Ministry of Interior presented its ambitious cybersecurity agenda on Tuesday (12 July), aiming to reorganise its architecture amidst rising cyber threats. But critics say several proposed measures have little to do with cybersecurity. 

Like other political parties, Volt has had many discussions over the environmental merits of nuclear power. But while the questions have remained the same for the last 30 years, the answers have changed significantly, writes Kathrine Richter.

While ‘solidarity lanes’ helped to increase Ukrainian grain exports, the majority of wheat is stuck in the nearby EU countries barely reaching the third countries that needed it, according to the European Commission.

The European Health Union indicated antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as one of its top three priority health threats in the EU on Tuesday (12 July) - the same day as the WHO called for accelerating of development of AMR-related vaccines.

The past few years have been a bumpy road for the global export champion. The German economy has suffered from the effects of the pandemic, global supply chain shortages, and of course, the unbundling of Russian gas imports.

Ukraine said on Tuesday (12 July) it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops.

The two European agencies in charge of the risk assessment on glyphosate have defended their approach to evaluating whether the herbicide is safe for re-approval in the EU against criticism from environment lawmakers.