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China slammed the planned visit by the speaker of the Czech lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, to Taiwan in March, calling it a ‘wrongful decision’. The Chinese government has urged Adamová to cancel her trip, Reuters reported on Thursday. China...

Romanian state-owned company Romgaz and Azeri oil and gas company Socar will sign a new contract for the delivery of natural gas on Friday.

The European Union's ban on imports of Russian refined oil products, including diesel and jet fuel, will disrupt global flows once it takes effect on Sunday (5 February) and could hurt Moscow more than an embargo on crude oil.

Albania has risen four places in The Economist 2022 Democracy Index, making it one of the best-performing countries of the year, resulting in an upgrade from hybrid regime to flawed democracy. The scoring system looks at performance in several key...

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti addressed the parliamentary assembly on Thursday and stated the conditions under which the Association of Serb Municipalities would be acceptable. The association was agreed and signed upon in 2013 under the previous government, but it...

Geological works in north-western Bosnia-Herzegovina have unearthed highly concentrated gold deposits, which will now be tested for possible exploitation, the company doing the works said on Thursday. Miloš Bošnjaković, general manager of Lykos Balkan Metals, said gold was discovered along...

The government Plenipotentiary for the Security of the Information Space of the Republic of Poland, Stanisław Żaryn, warned at a press conference about a disinformation campaign taking place in the country concerning refugees from Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees often fall victim...

Eleven MEPs called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Slovak citizen – who died after being held in custody at Charleroi airport in 2018 – after it was announced that the charges against the responsible police officers...

Spain received a total of 71.6 million tourists in 2022, which is 14.3% less than the number of tourists welcomed in 2019, the year before the pandemic broke out, official figures released on Thursday revealed. The recovery of foreign tourism...

Spanish unemployment rose by 70,744 people in January, while Spanish Social Security shed some 215,047 contributors at the end of the Christmas sale season when thousands of temporary jobs came to an end, according to data from the Social Security...

EXCLUSIVE. Nine EU member states, including France, have called on the European Commission to include low-carbon hydrogen – produced from nuclear electricity – in the EU's renewable hydrogen targets. 

Norway will take on a more substantial role in the international support Ukraine receives, Norway’s Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre declared on Thursday before the Norwegian Storting, advocating for a larger and more long-term Ukraine program financed by oil revenues....

Sweden and Finland will continue their journey towards NATO together despite the “frustrating” stall that Turkey is creating for Sweden, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and his Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin said on Thursday. Erdoğan said he would now only...

An agreement to enhance their cooperation to combat irregular migration was announced by Migration Minister Eric van den Burg and Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Liesje Schreinemajer in a joint press release on Wednesday. The agreement concerns human trafficking,...

The European Parliament voted to lift the immunities of Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella and Italian MEP Andrea Cozzolino on Thursday, meaning both men can expect to stand before Belgian justice. On Tuesday, the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) unanimously approved...

Radical right French MEP Nicolas Bay saw his parliamentary immunity waived in a plenary vote at the European Parliament on Thursday, following accusations by French courts of hate speech. Bay, formerly a National Rally (Rassemblement National) MEP, joined journalist-turned-pundit Eric...

Germany is leaving behind the last generally applicable pandemic protection measure as face masks are no longer mandatory on trains as of Thursday. After a number of federal regions dropped the mask mandate on local and regional trains over the...

The European Commission’s proposal on the energy efficiency of buildings in exchange for more funds to support renovations would have devastating effects in Italy, said the President of Confedelizia Giorgio Spaziani Testa who called on politicians to defend the savings of Italian families.

Over half the people surveyed by a Finnish media portal would be ready to proceed with Finland’s NATO application without waiting for Sweden, which is struggling to proceed due to Turkey’s reluctance to ratify it. In a survey commissioned by...

Neutrality has long been at the core of Austria’s post-World War II identity. While the country pledged millions to support Ukraine and has supported the EU sanctions against Russia, it also wants to keep the communication channels with the Kremlin...