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Electricity and gas prices to increase in Croatia

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 07:16
The government and all its ministries are working on preventing a major blow to living standards due to higher energy prices, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković has said. “With all the measures we are taking, quietly and very discreetly, we have managed...
Categories: European Union

Romania has sold or donated almost 6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 07:15
Romania has received more than 28.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since the end of 2020, but less than 60% were used for its own people. Some 3.5 million doses were sold to other countries, 2.2 million were donated, and...
Categories: European Union

Slovaks lose thousands in pensions savings per year

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 07:09
Pension savings worth hundreds of millions or more than a billion euros in total are being lost every year by Slovaks putting their money into the pension system’s second pillar. This loss is the policy of former PM Robert Fico’s...
Categories: European Union

EU, US widen Nicaragua sanctions as Ortega begins new term

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 07:07
Daniel Ortega was sworn in Monday (10 January) as Nicaragua’s president for a fourth straight term as the EU and US tightened sanctions over impugned elections held in November with all his challengers in jail. “Yes, I swear,” said strongman...
Categories: European Union

Government critic acquitted of insulting Polish president

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 07:05
The regional court in Warsaw decided to discontinue the trial against writer Jakub Żulczyk who called President Andrzej Duda “a moron.” The decision was not welcomed by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, of which Duda was a part...
Categories: European Union

Czech farmers fight over CAP Strategic plan

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 07:03
Small farmers are up in arms over the national strategic plan to implement the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Czechia, calling for more sustainable agricultural funding while larger farmers oppose last-minute changes. On Tuesday, the Czech Agrarian Chamber, which...
Categories: European Union

Surgeries in Italy drop 50-80% as ICUs filled with COVID-19 patients

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:59
The lack of space in intensive care units (ICUs) caused by the amount of COVID-19 patients is causing a deep crisis for surgical activities in hospitals, which have dropped between 50-80% as a result. “Surgical activity throughout Italy has been...
Categories: European Union

Baltic states top eurozone’s monthly inflation table

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:58
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania currently have the highest monthly inflation rates in the euro area, latest Eurostat estimates show. Estonia ranked first in the euro area, with a 12% inflation rate for December. The other two countries topping the list...
Categories: European Union

Swedish defence minister: Russia threatens European security order

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:54
Russia’s actions threaten the entire European security order, Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist said in a keynote speech at the Folk och Försvar, an annual meeting of Sweden’s security and defence policy community. The minister also discussed Russia’s demands on NATO...
Categories: European Union

Ireland mulls mandatory vaccinations

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:53
Ireland’s National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) will consider introducing a vaccine mandate following the release of an upcoming paper by the Department of Health on the issue’s complexities. According to newly released minutes from a meeting of the group...
Categories: European Union

Parthenon fragment returns to Greece, rekindling campaign for UK to hand over marbles

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:52
A marble fragment of the Parthenon temple has been returned to Athens from a museum in Sicily, a move officials hope will advance efforts to have the British Museum send back ancient sculptures from Greece's most renowned ancient landmark.
Categories: European Union

Austria intensifies controls of adherence to COVID rules

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:50
Starting from Tuesday, store and restaurant owners will be subject to intense police controls on whether they check the COVID certificate of their customers. Interior minister Gerhard Karner said the measure is necessary to convince the “incorrigible” to abide by...
Categories: European Union

Taubira to run for French presidential elections if she wins citizen-led primary

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:47
Former MEP and Justice Minister Christiane Taubira announced she would only run in the French presidential elections if she were nominated by the Popular Primary, a citizens’ initiative. According to her, she represents “the last chance for a possible union of...
Categories: European Union

Mega cruise shipbuilder with facilities in Germany files for bankruptcy

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:45
MV Werften, a massive shipbuilding company with facilities in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern employing around 1,900 workers, filed for bankruptcy on Monday. The wharf is a core part of the shipbuilding industry central to the state and was working...
Categories: European Union

EU Commission chooses not to comment on Tirana protests

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:36
The European Commission has chosen to not comment on the demonstrations that rocked Tirana over the weekend as tensions between two factions of the Democratic Party came to a head. On 8 January, ex-prime minister and president Sali Berisha led...
Categories: European Union

Hungarian minister certain about fourth vaccine

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:35
Minister of Human Resources responsible for healthcare Miklós Kásler said he is absolutely certain that the need for a fourth vaccination must be taken into account in an interview with InfoRádió on Monday, Telex reported. In Kásler’s view, the timing of the fourth...
Categories: European Union

Cyberattacks on Portuguese organisations rose 81% in 2021

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:33
The average weekly number of cyberattacks on Portuguese organisations increased by 81% year-on-year in 2021, with one organisation being attacked 881 times a week according to data from Check Point Research. The data also found that companies and institutions in...
Categories: European Union

UK banned Huawei because US told us to, former minister

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:30
The UK government’s decision to ban Huawei 5G equipment and services “had nothing to do with national security,” and was because of American pressure, a former business and industry minister has said. Speaking at an event on Monday, Vince Cable,...
Categories: European Union

Spain wants EU to manage COVID as ‘common flu’

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:25
The Spanish government has worked for several weeks on a plan to approach the COVID-19 disease as if it was the common flu, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported, quoting El País. Official sources told El País that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is trying...
Categories: European Union

European Parliament President David Sassoli dies

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:04
The president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, died in the early hours of Tuesday (11 January) in hospital in Italy, his spokesperson announced on Twitter.
Categories: European Union

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