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Inflation in May reached a historical high of 6.7% while the rate for food items reached double figures as prices continue to rise, spelling trouble for Albanian households who are still reeling from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prices...

A common European future is the only solution to the Western Balkans’ lasting problems, and Serbia is expected to truly respect the EU’s values as a new war dawns on Europe, diplomats said at a conference in Belgrade on Thursday....

Members of parliament, ministers, state secretaries, the prime minister, and the president may soon have to undergo mandatory annual drug testing according to a bill tabled by the Democrats, parliament’s largest party in opposition. The bill aims to improve transparency...

Ukraine has launched a charm offensive in recent weeks to convince the still sceptical Western European capitals to grant the country EU candidate status and avoid the pitfall of being lumped together with two other eastern hopefuls, Moldova and Georgia. 

A small aeroplane toyed with the nerves of the air defences of six NATO members before landing on Thursday (9 June) in a small airfield in Bulgaria, whereby the pilot and passengers promptly disappeared.

Bulgaria will lift its veto on neighbouring North Macedonia’s EU accession talks if three conditions are met, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, whose coalition is currently facing turmoil, announced on Thursday. The prime minister set out the conditions at a joint press...

The European Central Bank on Thursday (9 June) ended its bond-buying stimulus and unveiled plans for a series of interest rate hikes from July, the first in more than a decade, to combat soaring inflation. The keenly-awaited announcements bring down...

Eurostat figures from 2020, which point to Slovakia importing 56% of its total energy needs, do not consider nuclear, which would put that number at more than 80%, analysts have said. According to analysts from VÚB bank, nuclear fuel should...

Czech authorities are keeping their stance on future energy sanctions close to their chest. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has praised Czechia for supporting Ukraine’s path towards EU membership. Czech and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers Jan Lipavsky and Dmytro Kuleba...

Parliament approved on Thursday the first reading of four bills from the Socialist party, Left Blocc, IL and PAN regulating the decriminalisation of medically assisted death and are now following the work in the committee stage. The majority of the...

Europe will help rebuild Ukraine after the devastation of the Russian invasion as it is its moral obligation, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during her visit to Rome on Thursday. During her visit, the EU Commission chief...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has agreed to open an investigation into the allegedly fraudulent use of EU money by the Madrid region in 2020 to purchase health materials to combat the pandemic. Left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) presented...

Public security measures will be strengthened in the municipalities where rejected asylum seekers who crossed over from Belarus last year live, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. Earlier this week Lithuania’s interior ministry drafted amendments allowing rejected asylum seekers free...

Finland’s first floating terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be placed on the country’s southern coast at the port of Inkoo, some 60 kilometres west of Helsinki, Gasgrid Finland, a state-owned company and transmission system operator, announced on Thursday...

Director and editor-in-chief of YLE news Jouko Jokinen brushed off Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demands to stop broadcasting interviews with “terrorist leaders” on Thursday by describing them as “delusional imaginations of a dictator.” According to the Turkish news agency...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has taken a “wrecking ball” to UK-Irish relations in handling the Northern Ireland Protocol, opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer said while visiting Dublin. Starmer was speaking about London’s plans to push ahead with legislation that...

The opposition party is demanding the immediate disbursement of €228 million to create sustainable violence protection structures in the face of increasing violence against women and femicides. As of 9 June, 14 femicides have been committed in Austria in 2022. The Social...

French President Emmanuel Macron is “humiliating” the country in Ukraine, Sandrine Rousseau, one of the leaders of the French Greens, told EURACTIV France in an exclusive interview. The 2021 Green party primary runner-up believes that the French and EU response...

Montenegro hopes Ukraine will soon be granted the status of an EU candidate and is ready to provide expert and political help, the prime minister of the Western Balkan country, a frontrunner in the EU accession process, was quoted as...

Poles are becoming disgruntled as decisions by the National Bank and the government aimed at reducing prices do not seem to help in the fastest price increase since 1998. Poles are increasingly complaining about high prices, including paying around €1.74...