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Press freedom has improved in the Czech Republic according to this year’s Press Freedom Index, which now places the country 20th compared to the 40th spot it scored last year. The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries...

About 102,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled to Poland since the start of the war in Ukraine have managed to find employment in the country, the family, labour, and social policy ministry has said. Under a law adopted in March, Ukrainian refugees that...

Portugal can play a “decisive role”, for example, in energy security, with the port of Sines as a Euro-Atlantic hub and benefiting from the location of the Azores, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said. “Portugal has all the prerequisites to...

Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s call for faster EU integration to address current crises received mixed reactions from EU lawmakers, mainly regarding energy. Draghi called for “a pragmatic and ideal federalism, a decisive acceleration in the integration process”, which “requires the...

Estonia and Lithuania were among the top ten best states for press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index published Tuesday. Estonia ranked fourth, while Lithuania ranked ninth. Both countries jumped spots as Estonia and Lithuania ranked...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a historical two-day state visit to Denmark Tuesday, during which Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she would bring up the importance of India’s potential role in helping the situation in Ukraine. Modi travelled...

An organisation of Russian-speaking people (SVK) and the Belarusian diaspora in Finland have launched a campaign calling for a pro-Putin convoy planned to commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 to be banned. The convoy, organised by RuFi, an...

Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov decried Tuesday (3 May) Russian propaganda arguing for using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict, warning that would mark "the end of humanity".

Data centres in Ireland consumed more electricity in 2021 than all the country’s rural households combined, new figures by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show. Between 2020 and 2021, electricity consumption by the centres rose by 32.3%, according to the...

Boris Johnson’s Conservative party are set to incur heavy losses in local elections across the United Kingdom on Thursday in his party’s first electoral test since the ‘Partygate’ saga. The municipal elections, which will decide who governs dozens of local...

Press freedom in the Netherlands dropped significantly compared to last year due to attacks on the press, according to Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index, which lowered the country’s ranking from sixth to 28th. The Netherlands ranked 28th, scored 77.93 out...

Ukraine’s accession to the EU cannot be achieved “in the next five to ten years”, said Austria’s EU and Constitutional Affairs Minister Karoline Edtstadler after recent comments from Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg on the matter caused controversy. Schallenberg caused controversy...

A Romanian citizen in the UK is suspected of assisting the Killnet hacker group in its cyberattack against Romanian websites. The Romanian citizen, who is now in the custody of British authorities, has offered his support by translating the materials...

Italy may have already paid in roubles as Slovakia is experiencing higher transit volumes of gas, Slovak Economy Minister Richard Sulík (SaS) said following the meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels on Monday. “Since the volumes flowing through Slovakia...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez must shed full light on the espionage scandal targeting dozens of Catalan politicians, himself, and Defence Minister Margarita Robles, before parliament, Pro-independence Catalan and Basque parties, the centre-right PP, centre-liberal Ciudadanos (Citizens) and the far-right Vox...

Germany will back the NATO membership bids of Sweden and Finland if they apply, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday, following a rare meeting in Berlin with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and her Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin. The German government...

Croatian President Zoran Milanović on Tuesday said he would block the admission of Sweden and Finland at the NATO summit in Madrid if he is the one representing Croatia, after previously voicing his opposition to the two countries’ possible NATO...

Russian forces pounded targets in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday (3 May), unleashing rockets on a steel plant that is Ukraine's last redoubt in the port city of Mariupol as the European Union prepared to slap oil sanctions on Moscow.

Despite the Russian aggression, Ukraine continues to produce grain and oilseeds and remains an exporter, although crops are exported by land, as as Russia has blocked all Ukrainian sea ports in Black and Azov seas, writes Roman Rukomeda.

On Tuesday (3 May), euro area finance ministers met virtually via videocall to discuss new measures to integrate the European banking system, that were proposed by the Irish finance minister and Eurogroup president Paschal Donohoe.