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Croatia plans to invest €3.5 billion in upgrading its railway traffic in the next ten years, with the other priority being river cargo transport, Transport Minister Oleg Butković said on Thursday, state broadcaster HRT reports. Speaking during a tour of...

Energy Minister Virgil Popescu is trying to persuade Azerbaijan to increase oil and gas deliveries to Romania in an attempt to diversify Romania’s energy resources as Bulgaria-Greece gas interconnector needed for LNG supply nears completion. Romania is not as dependent...

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Kalina Konstantinova apologised to Ukrainian refugees in the country after she announced the scrapping of the government’s housing programme for the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees due to their attitude on Monday. Her apology came after Konstantinova,...

Bulgaria will never negotiate with Russian energy giant Gazprom ever again, Deputy Prime Minister Assen Vassilev told parliament on Thursday, adding that the contract with the company expires at the end of the year and that Russia unilaterally suspended supplies....

On June 7, the European Parliament will cast its final vote on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) proposal. This will mark the last opportunity for the Parliament and the Council of the EU to fine tune the Mechanism and ensure its ultimate objectives can be fulfilled.

Representatives of Russian companies, many with ties to the Kremlin, are no longer allowed to enter European Parliament premises according to a decision taken by President Roberta Metsola on Thursday. The decision was made public via Metsola’s Twitter account. “We...

A new investigation has shed light on Czechia’s unregulated surrogacy industry, with at least 30 babies being born in Prague by surrogate, and then passed to foreign parents in the last three years. The report by news site Seznam Zprávy found that...

Smoking indoors will only be allowed in places such as restaurants, bars, and nightclubs from January next year if they have an area equal to or greater than 100 square metres and a minimum ceiling height of three metres, according...

The number of Spain’s unemployed fell below the three million mark for the first time since December 2008, while employment grew, official figures found. According to data released by the labour ministry on Thursday, unemployment dropped in May by 99,512...

The idea of a new European migration policy was floated by Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese during an interview ahead of the Med5 summit that gathers Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus. It is “necessary to define a united and...

Oil prices rose Thursday despite an agreement by major crude producers to boost output more than expected, while US stocks rallied ahead of closely-watched employment data seen as a key input to the inflation debate. In Vienna, the OPEC+ group...

The planned visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Belgrade announced for 7 June by the media is becoming complicated, particularly when it comes to how he will arrive, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Thursday. Asked by Pink...

The foreign ministry expects Denmark to join the European Security and Defence Cooperation on 1 July, Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Thursday in a press release after about two-thirds of Danes backed such a move in Wednesday’s referendum....

 Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said she would resign if Justice Minister Morgan Johansson is defeated in the upcoming no-confidence vote put forward by the far-right Democrats of Sweden, Radio Ekot reported. Far-right Democrats of Sweden chairman Jimmie Åkesson tabled a vote of...

The right-wing Moderate Party wants families to stop receiving benefits from their fourth child to help integrate and reduce crime, party leader Ulf Kristersson told the newspaper Aftonbladet in an interview on Thursday, mainly targeting women with a migrant background. The...

The government is again considering whether to postpone the start date for implementing the carbon tax until October, due to high energy prices and growing criticism. The carbon tax is an eco-social prestige project of the current conservative-green government, where...

New Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is preparing an “emergency law” to tackle global warming and reduce France’s Russian fossil fuel dependence, she announced Thursday. A “radical transformation of our production methods” is needed to achieve the goal of a “carbon-neutral...

German lawmakers have agreed to launch an inquiry committee that will examine the withdrawal of German troops and the unsuccessful evacuation of local support staff from Afghanistan in June 2021. The governing coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and liberal...

Finland is boosting its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in preparation for the new COVID-19 BA.5 variant first detected in South Africa in January which has now hit the country. Finland discovered the first cases of the BA.5 variant in mid-May. To...

The General Intelligence and Security Service have allegedly been using hacking software from the Israeli supplier NSO Group, Dutch broadcaster Volkstkrant reported Thursday after interviewing anonymous sources. According to the sources who wished to remain anonymous, the intelligence service used the...