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On this week’s episode of the Beyond the Byline podcast, we are taking a closer look at Twitter’s current troubles with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), why journalists and media companies are turning their back on the platform and...

The Spitzenkandidat concept – which gives the winning group in the EU elections a chance to propose their lead candidate as European Commission president –  is quietly fading away, with even its initial backers becoming gradually less vocal about the...

Greece’s alternate foreign affairs minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis admitted that the New Democracy government (EPP) granted permission to export the illegal Predator spyware to Sudan, now facing a dramatic civil war. But speaking to Realfm, the minister insisted that “the export...

Efforts to boost carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe are insufficient according to the biofuels industry, who say the United States offer better incentives.

Albanians are the most pessimistic of all Western Balkan citizens when it comes to the economic outlook following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with almost half believing the situation will not improve. The Regional Cooperation Council carried out a Regional Barometer...

With under a month until Albania heads to the polls to elect mayors and regional councillors, a total of 132 political parties are present in the country, with more than 24,000 candidates in the running. R The May 2023 municipal...

Serbia will not support Kosovo’s membership to the UN, President Aleksandar Vučić said in discussions with Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Blistrem on Wednesday. In the discussions, Vučić discussed the normalisation of relations with Pristina and emphasised that the EU expects...

German President Frank Walter Steinmeier asked for forgiveness of German crimes committed during World War II as he commemorated the 80th anniversary of the ghetto uprising alongside the presidents of Poland and Israel in Warsaw on Wednesday. On 19 April...

Spain’s two main parties, the ruling centre-left PSOE (S&D) and the centre-right Popular Party (PP/EPP) are both using the housing crisis as a way to gain votes ahead of elections set for later this year. The first to start the...

Upping birth rates and bringing more women into the labour force are the solutions the government is proposing to plug the current labour shortage of about one million, Labour Minister Marina Elvira Calderone and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recently said....

Budapest and Ankara should ratify Stockholm’s NATO application before the Alliance’s summit in Vilnius in July, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said during an official visit to Sweden on Wednesday. In the first visit of a US Secretary of...

After days of speculation, the Japanese company Sega looks likely to finalise the acquisition of the Finnish company Rovio Entertainment known for its Angry Birds brand. Rovio’s board of directors supported the tender offer of €706 million by Sega, according...

The current state monopoly system would not function without regulatory changes, according to a report commissioned by the Interior Ministry that looks at the future of online gambling and recommends a switch to a licensing system. According to a report...

Opposition parties criticised the government for indecisiveness in handling the country’s ongoing nitrogen crisis while advocating for differing approaches as lawmakers in parliament debated potential financing methods for a nitrogen transition fund on Wednesday. The proposed fund, worth €24.3 billion,...

A five-point resilience plan that prioritises the safe supply of food and includes a call to reform the Food Management Act was unveiled by Agriculture Minister Norbert Totschnig on Wednesday. The food supply situation in Austria is currently secure, Totschnig...

The academic success of German children depends more on their parents’ education and income, as the education system gives varying outcomes, a report published by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research reads. German children with parents with high school diplomas...

According to a recent poll, 93% of Europeans agree that the food offered in public spaces, like schools and hospitals, should be guaranteed to be healthy. In a Europe where 1 in 3 school-aged children is obese or overweight and 24.4% of children are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, ensuring healthy and sustainable food in public canteens is an essential investment of public money.

The government decided on Wednesday that Bulgaria will ban the import of nearly 20 Ukrainian goods, including grain, from 24 April to 30 June, following in the footsteps of Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The ban will only apply to goods...

A Russian military programme reportedly mapped out offshore wind farms, gas pipelines, and electricity and internet cables in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden, according to a documentary aired on Wednesday. The documentary, Skyggekrigen, was produced by Danish public service broadcaster...

A Russian vessel spotted in Belgian territorial waters in November has caused concern it was a Russian intelligence-gathering ship similar to one also seen in Dutch territorial waters, attempting to sail under the radar. The vessel is believed to have...