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Two people died, and 56 were injured after two powerful explosions occurred on Saturday afternoon at an LPG station in southern Romania, which was still in use despite lacking a fire safety licence and being officially closed. Among those injured...

A new deal with US firm Westinghouse means that 18 months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Slovakia has diversified its suppliers of crucial energy materials and is now looking to France for another source.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, responding to calls by a US senator, said on Sunday (27 August) voting could take place during wartime if partners shared the cost, legislators approved, and everyone got to the polls.

The German government coalition is split on whether or not to subsidise electricity prices for energy-intensive industries, such as chemical industries and steel, with Chancellor Scholz’s own Social Democrats party turning against his position.

Luis Rubiales, Spain’s soccer federation (RFEF) chief, has been suspended by Fifa for 90 days, the soccer’s world governing body said in a statement on Saturday. “The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, Jorge Ivan Palacio (Colombia), in use of...

Isolated for almost half a century, the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has just opened a half-billion-dollar airport terminal in the hope of boosting tourism.

Partido Popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo will begin his first round of formal talks on Monday to secure the crucial parliamentary backing he needs to become Spain’s next prime minister, in a move his rival Socialist Party PSOE (S&D) said is doomed to fail.

With thousands of migrants arriving on Italy’s coasts daily, ministers have joined mayors and governors in asking the European Union for help managing migration flows. On Sunday, Enterprise and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso (Fratelli d’Italia/ECR) visited a hot-spot...

Encouraging Finns to work and cutting the budget following the high spending of the previous Social Democratic government are issues Finnish centre-right Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said the new government will tackle. Orpo was interviewed on Yle‘s Prime Minister’s Question...

If France is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, it must integrate renewables into its energy mix, according to the head of the country’s energy regulator, RTE, who believes nuclear power alone will not be enough.

Bavarian Deputy Premier Hubert Aiwanger (Freie Wähler, Renew Europe) says he did not write a pamphlet mocking the Holocaust that was found in his school bag when he was a 17-year-old student. During Aiwanger’s 1987/88 school year, a disciplinary committee...

Dutch MEPs and climate groups have slammed Wopke Hoekstra (CDA/Renew) ‐  the Dutch government’s pick to replace former EU climate chief Frans Timmermans ‐ citing his perceived lack of climate credentials.

New charges against sanctioned Bulgarian oligarch Vasil Bozhkov over his links to late Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin could affect the political standing of political figure Boyko Borissov and likely plunge Bulgaria into a new political crisis.

Czech Agriculture Minister Marek Výborný believes new gene editing techniques could help the European Union cope with climate change and the challenge of feeding its population.

The anti-establishment New Social Contract is currently leading Dutch polls, with the GreenLeft (Greens/EFA) and centre-left PvdA (S&D) trailing and the four parties in the fourth Rutte government – which collapsed in July over disagreements on asylum policy – lagging....

As Poland’s conservative ruling camp, which has developed difficult relations with EU institutions in recent years, seeks to secure a third term in office, the outcome of October’s national vote could significantly impact the balance of power ahead of next...

Russia reported a series of drone attacks on its territory on Saturday (26 August) that killed at least one in a region bordering Ukraine and again forced the temporary closure of three major airports serving the capital Moscow.

A senior European Union official urged Russia on Saturday (26 August) to renew a deal to allow the safe export of Ukrainian grain through Black Sea ports, after Russia quit the agreement last month.

Despite the murders of four of her colleagues for their reporting, Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko never considered she had been poisoned when she fell ill on a train to Berlin.

As a successful harvesting season yielding several hundred tonnes of lavender oil wraps up in Bulgaria -- the world's top producer -- the industry's future looks more grey than purple.