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Sweden’s handling of the pandemic and the Sami minority, as well as the increase in gun-related violence on its territory, were strongly criticised in a new report published by Amnesty International on Tuesday. Human rights organisation Amnesty International published its annual...

Pessimism about the Finnish economy is spreading among consumers and entrepreneurs, a new survey shows. The data based on Statistics Finland’s Consumer Confidence Survey carried out from 1-20 March shows the consumer confidence indicator (CCI) of -10.5, having been 0.5...

Ireland has expelled four senior Russian diplomats as “their activities have not been in accordance with international standards of diplomatic behaviour”, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said in a statement on Tuesday. Speaking to the Dáil, the lower house of Ireland’s...

Several European Union countries including Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland on Tuesday (29 March) expelled dozens of Russian diplomats, some for alleged spying, in what the Irish prime minister said was a coordinated move.

The Dutch government presented its list of measures for the country’s recovery and resilience plan to parliament’s lower house on Monday – making it the last EU member state to do so. The plan includes 39 plans for reforms and...

As Austria grapples with the corruption scandals that came about during the conservative ÖVP led government, the justice ministry is the latest to be probed on Wednesday. The Ibiza-gate affair saw the publication of a secretly recorded video showing then...

French President Emmanuel Macron has demanded Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin declare a truce in Mariupol to facilitate an emergency humanitarian operation amid a “catastrophic” situation, the Elysée has said. Macron detailed the conditions for the operation’s implementation in a...

Slovenia and Croatia appear on track to forge a closer energy partnership, with Croatia interested in joining the construction of a new unit at Slovenia’s only nuclear power plant and Slovenia keen on getting natural gas through the LNG terminal...

Ukrainian farmers are now entering the sowing period and the European Union must help them with seeds to avoid a global food shortage, Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OĽaNO) stressed on Tuesday after meeting with a Ukrainian delegation. The Ukrainian delegation...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on the Danish Folketing to help rebuild Ukraine after Russia’s invasion of his country is over. In his historical address to Danish lawmakers, Zelenskyy said Ukraine is still suffering under Russian fire. “Thousands of deadly...

Germany should introduce a levy on Russian energy imports as an alternative to sanctions on energy as it would curb Russia’s profits while generating revenue for the West, experts have said. While Ukraine has repeatedly called on Germany and the...

A state court in North Rhine-Westphalia has ruled in favour of German utility company RWE in a land dispute linked to expanding its Garzweiler lignite open-cast mine located in the German hamlet of Lützerath, as Clean Energy Wire reported.

EU institutions are not sufficiently prepared for the increasing number of cyberattacks, a new special report by the European Court of Auditors on Tuesday (29 March) reads. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The EU executive has put forth a non-paper on how to best include search engines in the obligations of the Digital Services Act (DSA), addressing concerns that Google and the likes might slip the regulation’s scope. The Commission’s non-paper on...

Russia promised at peace talks on Tuesday (29 March) to scale down its military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine, while Ukraine proposed adopting a neutral status but with international guarantees that it would be protected from attack.

It is hard to imagine that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will consider the potential start of Kyiv's EU membership talks to be compatible with his idea of a 'neutral' Ukraine.

Raising the threshold of relief from inheritance tax is one of the very few measures all candidates in the French presidential elections agree on, although they vary in their amounts proposed. EURACTIV France reports.

Last week’s European Council likely came as something of a relief to the Kremlin. EU leaders chose not to end the bloc’s reliance on Russian-imported fossil fuels, instead opting to “close loopholes” in existing sanctions.

In a wide-ranging interview, Timur Suleimenov, the First Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of Kazakhstan, discussed the war in Ukraine, the impact on his country of the Western sanctions, the drive for modernization following the January unrest in his country and the changing geopolitical balances.

Almost 4 million people were forced to leave Ukraine as an effect of the Russian aggression on the 24th of February 2022.  Europe faces war and the biggest refugees crisis in the world this century. Anna Radwan is the Founder...