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People who have been in close contact with others with confirmed monkeypox cases should be allowed to use the smallpox vaccine, said Albania’s Committee of Vaccination Experts on Monday. The board of experts comprises Health Minister Ogerta Manastirliu, Silva Bino,...

Ukraine's destruction of Russian artillery systems and armoured vehicles with Turkish Bayraktar TB2 aerial drones has made "the whole world" a customer, according to its designer.

Construction for the Tirsova 2 University children’s clinic, for which the EU is giving €35.7 million – one of the largest EU donations for projects outside the transport and energy sectors –  will be completed by 2025, President Aleksandar Vučić said...

Slovenia will return to the “EU’s core” after the previous conservative government had gravitated towards the Visegrad Group, incoming Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon announced. Friendly ties and alliances with key EU partners, particularly Germany, France and Italy, will be strengthened...

There will be no discussions on starting procedures to change the EU treaties during the current EU Council summit or the next one, President Klaus Iohannis said before meeting EU leaders for the summit on Monday and Tuesday. Triggering the...

The fact that Russia blocks Ukraine grain exports in the Black Sea and Iran seizes Greek tankers transferring oil in the Persian Gulf may bolster arguments to have navy ships escorting civilian tankers, according to analyst Cornelius Adebahr. The EU...

Rainbow flags should be banned from state-owned buildings according to a proposal from György Gyimesi from the ruling OĽaNO party and a former member of a far-right party. Gyimesi did not inform his party colleagues about the proposal, saying “there...

Polish state-owned energy companies have the obligation to protect the country’s energy security so burdening them with an additional tax on extra profits from high fuel prices is unnecessary, the Climate Minister Anna Moskwa has said, Polish Press Agency reported. A...

The European Commission has not conducted an economic impact assessment of its push to cut Russian gas imports by two thirds by year’s end, the first step of its €300 billion plan to eliminate Russian energy imports altogether by 2027, EURACTIV has...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday (30 May) urged  EU leaders to show strength, saying internal "quarrels" only benefit Moscow.

Life expectancy at birth in Portugal has fallen to 80.72 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Statistics Portugal (INE), which released data for the 2019-2021 triennium on Monday. Releasing the Mortality Tables, INE noted that life expectancy at...

Spain will boost its military spending to guarantee the stability and security of the country in response to the Russian threat, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday. The prime minister spoke at an event marking the 40th anniversary of...

Leaked information from the defence ministry about Turkey preparing a “hybrid war” during the summer period – including even arsons in forests – has caused political turmoil in Greece. Quoting a high-ranking source from the ministry of defence, mainstream media...

Norway will now use Belarus instead of Hviterussland – which means ‘White Russia’ in Norwegian and is the literal translation of Belarus – when mentioning the country, the foreign ministry wrote in a press release on Sunday, citing a show...

After staying out of the European Union's common defence policy for 30 years, Denmark votes Wednesday (1 June) in a referendum on whether to overturn its opt-out after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian gas company Gazprom said it would cut its supply to the Netherlands from Tuesday after Dutch wholesaler GasTerra refused to bow to the Kremlin’s demand to pay in roubles for fear of breaching EU sanctions. Read also: EU clarifies how...

Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff died while covering a Ukrainian evacuation operation near Severodonetsk on Monday, said France’s new Europe and Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna during a visit to Ukraine on the same day. Colonna said she was “deeply shocked” by the...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing criticism after allegedly comparing climate activists to Nazis during a speech on Sunday, an allegation his office denies. The remarks were targeted at climate activists who interrupted the chancellor’s speech at the German Catholic...

The Northern Ireland assembly failed to elect a new speaker on Monday after the Democratic Unionist party repeated that it would not vote on a speaker until its concerns about the Northern Ireland protocol had been resolved. The speaker cannot...

The government’s housing programme for the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees is being terminated due to the attitude of most Ukrainians, Deputy Prime Minister Kalina Konstantinova announced on Monday. Authorities have made it clear that Bulgaria cannot afford to support Ukrainian...