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Following Serbian President Aleksander Vucic’s apparent backtrack on plans to sign the EU-brokered proposal to normalise relations between Serbia and Belgrade, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti spoke of his disappointment to parliament on Thursday while the EU remains positive. During...

Retail chains in Bulgaria have caught the eye of the authorities as the Commission for Consumer Protection has revealed the high rate of violations and suspected unfair trade practices in the retail sector. In the last two weeks, the Commission...

Crowds of activists and members of the public, including women and children, gathered outside of the Albanian Ministry of Justice on Thursday evening to protest over the murder of three women by a man with a long history of rape,...

Migrants arriving in Italy mainly depart from the coasts of North Africa, but the number of migrants arriving from Turkey, despite being closer to Greece, has increased in the last two years. In 2022 there were about 16,000, 15% of all arrivals.

The subsidies available for purchasing new electric and hybrid vehicles will now amount to about €2.5 million (294 million dinars), twice as much as what was allocated last year, a newly adopted Serbian government decree states. The decree allows legal...

Moscow has demanded an official explanation from Belgrade about reports that Serbia, one of Russia’s traditional allies, had delivered a batch of rockets to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday Moscow was “deeply concerned” about the...

A global conference to save the world's oceans kicked off Thursday (2 March) in Panama with urgent calls to adopt an international protection treaty, along with billions of dollars in US and EU pledges for research, monitoring and conservation.

Electric utility company EDP plans to invest €3 billion in Portugal by 2026, according to the strategic plan update released on Thursday, which corresponds to 12% of the total planned investment of €25 billion. EDP’s CEO, Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, and...

Parliament will decide on Finland and Sweden’s NATO accession on 20 March instead of 6 March, delaying accession for another two weeks, according to the new session schedule adopted on Thursday. Hungary and Turkey are the only two NATO member...

Poland must quickly change its forest management laws as the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that it violates the EU animal and bird settlement directive and prevented environmental organisations from questioning the government’s afforestation plans. In its Thursday...

The Polish government will continue using TikTok, including for electoral purposes, the ruling party PiS, which has also asked the European Commission to provide further justification for its recent decision to ban the social media app from staff devices, said....

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė believes that Europe should develop its security system without Russia. “Sometimes there are voices saying that it will still be necessary to somehow develop a security system together with Russia. In my view, such thinking...

The unexpected announcement by the Spanish construction giant Ferrovial to move its headquarters from Madrid to The Netherlands over better tax policies prompted a storm of reactions in Spain on Thursday, with left-wing junior coalition member Unidas Podemos accusing the...

Ukrainian forces clinging to the city of Bakhmut dug new trenches in an attempt to hold back Russian attackers, as the US said new military aid for Ukraine would be discussed at a meeting with Germany's leader on 3 March.

The Belgian Constitutional Court on Friday will decide whether to cancel the Belgium-Iran prisoner swap treaty, which would allow for a Belgian aid worker who is convicted of espionage to be swapped for an Iranian diplomat facing prison for having...

The length of many Master’s degrees is to be halved, according to the education reform plan presented by the government on Thursday –  a move experts and the opposition believe will greatly harm the Danish education system. With its new...

Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella and former European Parliament’s VP Eva Kaili, who is currently incarcerated in Belgium for alleged participation in the corruption scheme at the heart of the Qatargate scandal, will know on Friday whether they will be kept...

Royal Navy ship HMS Lancaster seized weapons from a vessel travelling south from Iran while completing a routine security patrol after a US fixed-wing Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform detected a suspected smuggling vessel. ISR detected the vessel travelling...

Lawmakers voted in favour of doing away with the 50% legal limit on nuclear in the country’s total energy mix on Thursday as part of France’s larger efforts to build newer, more modern nuclear plants. The vote took place in...

Nobody can hold talks if they are being held at gunpoint, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told lawmakers on Thursday, pushing back on calls for peace talks with President Vladimir Putin. The Social Democrat chancellor addressed the parliament’s plenary to mark...