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Respecting the UN Charter is not a choice but an obligation, and its disregard, particularly in the case of Serbia, is a precursor to the problems the world is facing today, Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić spoke told the 78th session of...

While EU finance ministers are trying to find common ground on the new debt and deficit rules that should govern member state finances, their impact on public investment may have devastating consequences for growth, the green transition, and democracy itself.

Anyone fined for violating COVID-era restrictions later declared unconstitutional will be reimbursed and their offences expunged from their records under a bill passed by the Slovenian parliament on Wednesday. Between March 2020 and May 2022, over 62,000 infraction proceedings were...

Same-sex couples married in other EU member states will not be recognised as spouses in Romania and will only be granted residence rights, a draft law approved by the government reads. The draft law says that the marriage certificates between...

The administrative ethnic cleansing of Albanians living in the south of Serbia was raised by Albanian President Bajram Begaj at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, where he called for the strengthening of their rights as...

As Central Greece starts the long road to recovery after the floods caused by Storm Daniel, issues of preparation, effective planning and resilience-building remain unaddressed. 

Bulgarian police on Thursday (21 September) scuffled with supporters of the ultra-nationalist and pro-Russian Vazrazhdane (Revival) party protesting against the policies of the pro-Western government, calling for the government to resign and for the closure of NATO military bases.

Legal action against Slovakia, including before the World Trade Organisation and a ban on imports of Slovak agricultural products into Ukraine, will be dropped after online negotiations in which both countries agreed to set up a grain trading system based...

The Czech Republic will continue to prioritise supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression by helping it finance its weapons despite its obvious difficulties in consolidating its public finances. Already, for the last increase in contributions in June, the Czech Republic could...

Portuguese company VisionWare detected 961 cyber attacks by pro-Russian hackers against Western countries and organisations between October 2022 and March 2023, according to an official report sent to Lusa on Thursday. The report, titled ‘The Action of Pro-Russian Cyber Groups...

The possible approval of an amnesty law for those involved in the illegal 2017 Catalan referendum of independence, required by Catalan nationalist parties in exchange for the support Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez needs to form a government, has created a...

The Italian government has launched the National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power, which will lead within nine months to developing guidelines for possibly reintroducing nuclear power among national energy sources.

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Denmark’s parliament will allow the use of minority languages, Greenlandic and Faroese, spoken in the Kingdom of Denmark, but those who wish to speak in their native tongue will have to translate their speeches into Danish themselves, the parliament announced...

Belgium is aiming for a new migration pact to be ratified before its EU Council presidency stint ends, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a speech to the UN General Assembly Thursday. In his speech, De Croo (Open...

Lower Austria’s conservative far-right government of ÖVP and FPÖ is going against federal plans to increase the country’s CO2 tax, claiming high inflation requires support, not additional burdens.

France’s expansion of the scope of foreign direct investment (FDI) controls to the mining sector sheds a renewed light on the lack of EU harmonisation on investment screening, risks of arbitrage, and delays to investments, experts have warned.

As tensions between Germany and Poland’s nationalist government continue to brew, asenior lawmaker in Germany’s coalition government blasted Warsaw on Thursday over what he called a “disgraceful” plan to end arms supplies to Ukraine, attributing it to electoral motives by...

Thousands of dismayed Armenians took to the streets of the capital on Thursday (21 September) calling for the government to step down after Azerbaijan's lightning victory in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Defence ministers vowed their commitment to developing the future franco-german made battle tank and presented the next steps, after years of slow progress and rumours of Berlin's withdrawal from the project.