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Slovenia’s anti-graft watchdog found Prime Minister Janez Janša to be in a conflict of interest when he voted for Franci Matoz, his long-time lawyer, for a top job at the Bank Assets Management Company (BAMC). At a July 2021 cabinet...

The election process in Serbia was marked by unequal conditions for participants in elections, resulting from government representatives favoured by the majority of media outlets, pressure on employees in public companies, and abuse of administrative resources, observers from international organisations...

The war in Ukraine cannot spill over to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia is an example of a smart energy policy, US special envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, said on Monday. Speaking at the US-Croatia Forum in Zagreb,...

Dragon Čović, leader of HDZ BiH, the biggest Croat party, congratulated Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for winning the elections in their countries, calling Vučić’s victory “historic” and Orbán’s “magnificent”. He congratulated Vučić “on behalf...

The US calls on Montenegro to apply the sanctions that the EU imposed on Russia, the US Ambassador to Montenegro Judy Raising Reinke has said. Recalling the anniversary of the founding of NATO, Raising Reinke said that solidarity between allies...

Albanian leaders in Kosovo and Albania are united in their condemnation of reported atrocities in Bucha and other towns and cities around Kyiv in Ukraine. Over the weekend, disturbing footage and eyewitness accounts emerged from several areas around the Ukrainian...

Europe’s new push for diversification from Russia’s energy has revived talks about a pipeline bringing natural gas from the Eastern Mediterranean to Greece and the rest of south-east Europe. However, the European Commission still insists on the EastMed pipeline’s commercial viability before giving its final blessing.

The German government has announced a compromise paper which will ensure that the government’s aim of a rapid expansion of onshore wind energy will not be stymied by too stringent environmental protection rules.

The proportion of male and female MPs in the Hungarian legislature is set to stay the same after the general elections on Sunday, Telex reported. This issue is becoming the subject of international criticism. The number of women is set to...

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) congratulated Hungary’s Viktor Orban on his election win, while other politicians from his government’s coalition partner, including Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský were much more critical. Fiala did, however, suggest that Hungary had not been...

Russia should sanction the Polish ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and its’ voters in retaliation to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s proposal to sanction members of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, former Russian president and prime minister said....

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has, together with the government, condemned Russian forces for the reported atrocities committed in Bucha, Ukraine. Speaking to journalists outside the National Congress of the Portuguese Medical Association on Sunday, de Sousa was asked by...

The Spanish Civil Guard on Monday seized the Russian-owned luxury yacht Tango, moored at the Real Club Nautico in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported. The yacht is owned by Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg, a Ukrainian-born, Russian-Cypriot...

Balanced regulation is required from the proposed EU Directive on platform work to ensure the best outcome for platforms and workers alike. The diversity within the platform economy merits a considered and flexible approach to classifying labour.

The German government has, effective immediately, transferred the ownership of the German Gazprom subsidiary to the federal network agency as a trustee in a bid to save the country’s gas market. On Friday (1 April), Gazprom Germania found itself transferred...

Usually on opposite sides of the debate on fiscal rules, the Dutch finance minister Sigrid Kaag and her Spanish counterpart Nadia Calviño presented a proposal that could steer the reform of fiscal rules that is currently being prepared in the EU institutions.

The EU’s flagship investment vehicle to drive the post-pandemic recovery of the European economy has decided on the first batch of investments that it aims to support through budget guarantees.

Tenants living in well-insulated homes in Germany will have to shoulder the lion’s share of their CO2 costs for heating, while the burden in inefficient buildings will fall on landlords, reports Clean Energy Wire.

Russia’s Ambassador to Lithuania will have to leave the country due to a downgrading of diplomatic relations amid the war in Ukraine, the foreign ministry announced on Monday. On the same day, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis announced on Twitter that Lithuania’s...

US President Joe Biden called Monday (4 April) for a "war crimes trial" over alleged atrocities in Bucha and vowed tougher sanctions against Moscow, as Ukraine's leader urged the world to acknowledge a "genocide" by Russian troops near Kyiv.