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All COVID-19 restrictions in the Netherlands will become voluntary as of next Wednesday. Exactly two years since the restrictions were first introduced, Health Minister Ernst Kuipers declared that it is now safe to relax the measures. People are still advised...

French President Emmanuel Macron has offered consular protection or asylum to Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who protested on Russian television on Monday. During a visit to a reception centre for Ukrainian refugees in Maine-et-Loire, the French president was asked...

Several military experts have called on the Bulgarian government to ask NATO for help over the encroaching state of war in neighbouring Ukraine. “War is knocking at the door. Intentionally or not, Russian drones are already entering the airspace of...

High ranking Fidesz officials and pundits appeared unable to call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “war” as the opposition demanded that the country choose between Europe and “the East” at Tuesday’s national celebrations. Thousands of Hungarians took to the streets...

Italy’s defence ministry has established new rules for the deployment of soldiers, according to a leak in the Italian press on Tuesday. With the war in Ukraine continuing to rage, new rules for the deployment of soldiers have been agreed on,...

Sweden and Finland plan to present soon a plan enshrining deeper military cooperation, newspaper Aftonbladet reported. After Russia openly warned non-NATO members Sweden and Finland against joining the Alliance, Helsinki and Stockholm are getting closer than ever. This week five meetings...

European Union regulators have told some banks to scrutinise transactions by all Russian and Belarusian clients, including EU residents, to ensure that they are not used to circumvent Western sanctions against Moscow, three sources told Reuters.

Halting Russian energy imports to Germany would have major ramifications for household heat supply this winter, the country’s biggest energy company, RWE, warned on Tuesday during the presentation of its annual report. “I understand calls to step up sanctions to...

US President Joe Biden will make his first visit to Europe since the invasion of Ukraine to discuss the crisis with NATO allies next week, the White House said as the refugee tally hit 3 million amid Russian air strikes.

NATO defence ministers are set to task the alliance's military commanders to draw up plans for new more troops and missile defences in Eastern Europe, officials and diplomats said ahead of the meeting on Wednesday (16 March).

EU finance ministers agreed on Tuesday (15 March) to subsidise household fuel prices and offer support to companies hit by surging energy prices as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.

Spain's energy Minister, Teresa Ribera, assured that "it is very difficult to make progress" with France on the construction of a gas pipeline that will allow Spain to export its stored gas to the rest of Europe.

For millions of Ukrainians fleeing from the war, EU countries are lifting COVID-19 travel restrictions. However, the ECDC and WHO Europe continue to highlight the importance of ensuring vaccination coverage among refugees in host countries. 

The investment will support the establishment of a new mega fab in Germany, the expansion of an existing factory in Ireland, an R&D and design hub in France, and production and research capacities in Italy, Spain and Poland.

The finance ministers of EU member states failed to reach a unanimous agreement on the EU directive aimed at implementing the global minimum tax for large corporations when they met in Brussels on Tuesday (15 March).

You can’t get a Happy Meal any longer in Russia after McDonald’s closed shop. The latest apps are barred from the Apple store and a swath of international and European businesses are grinding their operations to a halt after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, writes Jonas Parello-Plesner.

The war in Ukraine has triggered a ‘Zeitenwende’ in German politics. The traffic light coalition had pledged to dedicate its foreign policy to the diffusion of international peace, yet it is now responsible for the biggest U-turn in recent German history, which has laid the groundwork for Germany to become a military power ready to defend European interests.

The UK government on Tuesday added more than 360 Russian oligarchs, politicians and companies to its sanctions regime, making them subject to an asset freeze and travel ban.

With the realisation that conventionally fuelled vehicles are propping up the Russian war machine, the shift to electric vehicles has gained a powerful geopolitical selling point.

The Kremlin on Tuesday (15 March) cautioned the West that Russia's interests as part of the Iranian nuclear deal would have to be ensured after the United States and its allies slapped sanctions on Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.