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Wed, 07/13/2022 - 07:03
Albania is among four countries in Europe that have seen their populations fall the most compared to the 1990s, decreasing to 2.79 million today, a reduction of 15%. Eurostat published an analysis of population decline in European countries and found...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 07:03
The situation in the region, Serbia’s EU integration, and Serbia-Poland bilateral relations were discussed between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) chairman-in-office and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Belgrade on Tuesday....
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 07:02
Concerns over energy supplies in Europe topped the agenda as Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob held talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday. Golob said the goal of getting through the winter without Russian gas was very ambitious but...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 07:02
Bulgaria will have early elections in October if parliamentary parties fail to form a government, President Rumen Radev has suggested. The country entered a political crisis at the start of June when the populist party ‘There is such a people’...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 07:00
“As my mother used to say: you can only give it your utmost best,” says Jan te Bos. Sitting in his sunny 7th floor Brussels office, the Director General of the European Insulation Manufacturers Association EURIMA is reflecting on the many challenges in the way of decarbonising the EU, in particular its building stock.
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:54
Local authorities implementing measures to help Ukrainian refugees have yet to receive any money from EU funds that were set up to support member states. In March, the European Commission adopted the CARE program (Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe),...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:54
Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka mention of the fight against sexual violence when presenting the Czech EU Presidency priorities to the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality committee of the European Parliament prompted tough questions about Czechia’s reluctance to...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:51
Instead of direct weapons deliveries to Ukraine, Germany supplies arms via so-called “chain swaps,” where eastern European member states deliver their soviet tanks to Ukraine in exchange for modernised weapons from German stocks. After Germany faced heavy criticism for the...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:36
A multi-billion-euro windfall tax for finance and energy firms to offset the toll of inflation was announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday. The extraordinary tax measure will be applied to financial entities in 2022-23 and energy firms in...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:34
The government is considering a new decree to curb rising inflation and energy prices, ensuring that price increases do not weigh on wages, Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced after meeting with trade unions at Palazzo Chigi on Tuesday. Since January,...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:32
Eight candidates will contest the first ballot in the battle to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative party leader and Prime Minister on Wednesday, as the field starts to be whittled down. Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whose resignation last week started...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:31
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...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:30
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...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:29
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...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:23
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.
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:21
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...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:19
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...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:19
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...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:18
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...
Wed, 07/13/2022 - 06:15
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...
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