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The global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow in the coming years for the first time since the Cold War while the risk of such weapons being used is the greatest in decades, a leading think-tank said on 13 June.

It might look and smell like McDonald's but now it's Vkusno & tochka. The golden arches are gone, the Filet-O-Fish is simply a fish burger. The Big Mac has left Russia.

Slovak company Konštrukta Defence will soon start repairing Ukrainian military equipment after both sides agreed on the repair of a “few dozen” unspecified vehicles damaged in the fight against Russians, Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď confirmed. Konštrukta Defence is a state-owned...

The government’s plan to have its first nuclear plant by 2033 as part of the six reactors it aims to have in operation by 2043 is too ambitious, experts have said. Poland, which relies heavily on fossil fuels and has...

Not enough people went to the polls on Sunday for the five questions on judicial power to even be considered. Fewer than 20% of those eligible to vote participated in the vote on five referendum questions submitted by nine centre-right...

The World Trade Organization chief voiced cautious optimism Sunday (12 June) as global trade ministers gather to tackle food security threatened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, overfishing and equitable access to Covid vaccines. Speaking just hours before the opening of...

Dublin has welcomed a decision by the Council of Europe to request details from the UK on how proposed legislation that would grant conditional immunity to those accused of Troubles-era offences will comply with the European Convention on Human Rights....

UK ministers insist that the new bill designed to allow them to override parts of the Northern Ireland protocol will not break international law ahead of its publication on Monday. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the BBC on Sunday...

The Dutch government now backs the EU accession bids of Albania and North Macedonia despite blocking negotiations for both Balkan countries with France and Denmark in 2019. The cabinet and coalition parties in the Dutch House of Representatives are now in...

The wealth of the richest 5% of Austrians must be taxed to help finance increased government spending caused by the pandemic and inflation, reiterated social affairs minister Johannes Rauch in an interview Saturday. To redistribute wealth, 450,000 people in Austria...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Kyiv alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian President Mario Draghi ahead of the G7 summit on 26 June, German daily BILD reported. BILD obtained this information from French and Ukrainian government circles, and the German government’s...

Senior members of the opposition have come out in force against an appeal signed by two former presidents that Slovenia should rethink its position on the Ukraine war. In an open letter co-signed by former presidents Milan Kučan and Danilo Türk,...

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský rejected the comments of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has said that “Russia must not be humiliated in Ukraine.” On Europe Day on 9 May, Macron said Europe must learn from its past mistakes and make sure...

Algiers’ decision to suspend a bilateral friendship treaty with Spain last week is exclusively related to Madrid’s recent diplomatic shift on Western Sahara and has no direct implications on the EU’s trade policy, the Algerian government has said. Algeria announced...

The Conservative People’s Party of Estonia and the Centre Party, the country’s two populist parties, are eyeing general elections in March 2023 as progress on new government talks will likely leave them in opposition. The tenure of the two-party government,...

The leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 9BiH) political parties and members of the presidency met in Brussels on Sunday (12 June) to adopt an agreement pledging commitment to preserving a peaceful, stable, and independent state and adhering to EU values.

The presidential movement Ensemble is neck and neck with the left-wing alliance NUPES, with 25.75% and 25.66% of the vote, respectively, as the first round of legislative elections drew to a close on Sunday. It is now not certain that...

Security concerns raised by Turkey in its opposition to Finland's and Sweden's NATO membership applications are 'legitimate' and talks with Ankara would continue, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday (12 June).

Russian forces said Sunday (12 June) they had struck a site in western Ukraine storing US- and EU-supplied weapons, as fighting intensified in an eastern region where the country's top commander said the land "is covered in blood."

In this week’s edition: Ukraine's candidate status, food crisis woes and Western Balkan enlargement frustration.