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Consumers panic bought sunflower oil, a product they think will soon be in short supply, just a few days after they had queued up en masse at petrol stations. Photos posted on social media showed shoppers buying large quantities of...

Hungary’s constitutional court, often accused of a pro-government bias, dismissed charges against the executive on Sunday of using emails sent to citizens on the eve of the Ukrainian-Russian war for campaign purposes in the upcoming parliamentary elections. On 24 February,...

The Czech Republic can no longer offer accommodation to Ukrainian refugees as the state’s capacities are now exhausted. To remedy the situation, the Czech Republic has applied for 25 modular humanitarian bases that could accommodate up to 50,000 people via...

Opposition party MPs have spoken out against the new law regulating residency status for Ukrainian refugees that fled to Poland following the Russian invasion, particularly the provisions giving impunity to officials when people’s lives are at stake. President Andrzej Duda on...

The Portuguese immigration and borders service SEF is launching an online platform in three different languages on Monday for requests for temporary protection from Ukrainian residents, it announced on Sunday. The ‘SEFforUkraine.sef.pt’ platform “enables all Ukrainian citizens and their households,...

The Temporary Reception Centre for Ukrainian refugees in Lisbon received 394 people in its first week of operation, including 116 children aged up to 16 years, Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas said on Sunday. At the end of a meeting to...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a package of tax relief measures focused on alleviating the impact of the war in Ukraine on the economy on Sunday. Sánchez announced in a meeting with the presidents of the 17 Spanish regions...

A total of 5,000 people demonstrated in Madrid asking the EU and the US to enforce a “no-fly zone” in Ukraine to help the Eastern country repel the Russian invasion on Sunday, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported. While this action was...

Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine were stepping up on Monday, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk after both sides cited progress, even after Russia attacked a base near the Polish border and fighting raged elsewhere.

A bus carrying 20 Ukrainians overturned in North-Eastern Italy on Sunday morning while making its way to Pescara in the Abruzzi Region, leaving one person dead and several injured, firefighters said. The accident occurred at around 6:45 am on the...

A spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry has issued another warning to both Sweden and Finland warning them not to join NATO. Russia repeated its threat of retaliation on Saturday (12 March) if Sweden and Finland ever decide to join...

Ireland’s traditional military neutrality will need to be redefined, but a referendum on it is not currently on the government’s radar, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said. If Ireland wishes to remain a neutral country, the foreign minister added that...

People in the UK will be offered £350 a month to open their homes to Ukrainian refugees as part of the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme. The programme will allow Britons to sponsor a refugee or family to live in...

Political parties are offering information and election debates in English for residents who do not speak Dutch but are eligible to vote in the municipal elections starting on Monday. Every four years, the Netherlands holds elections to vote for their...

The Russian aggressors try to stage support for joining “the Russian world” in occupied areas, but apart from their propagandists pretending to be local citizens, nobody supports their manifestations, writes Roman Rukomeda.

All French citizens who use petrol will be reimbursed 15 cents per litre as of 1 April, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Saturday to the newspaper Le Parisien in response to the surge in fuel prices exacerbated by the current...

The Bulgarian government will try to build at least one nuclear reactor at the functioning Kozloduy nuclear power plant on the banks of the Danube. “The Ministry of Energy has started a study for the rapid construction of another nuclear...

Several cases of vandalism towards Soviet war memorials have been reported in central and eastern Europe as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Russian embassies were outraged, national authorities were more understanding of perpetrators. In some cases,...

The war in Ukraine may lead to increased food prices and possible supply shortages in Finland and across Europe, Economic Minister Mika Lintilä has said. In a TV interview on 12 March, Lintilä warned consumers of “Putin’s prices”. According to...

An EU army will not happen in the foreseeable future, said Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer following Friday’s summit of EU leaders in Versailles. “The EU army is not an agenda item,” Nehammer told Austrian newspaper Der Standard. Following the Russian invasion...