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A team of international and Albanian experts presented their vision, roadmap and feasibility study for the creation of the Vjosa National Park to the country’s government this week, in the hopes of ensuring the protection of Europe’s last wild river.

When the President of the European Commission told her audience in Davos this month that “Europeans need to get better at nurturing our own clean-tech industry,” I wanted to seize the day and jump on the next train to Switzerland....

Only a two-thirds parliamentary majority remains in the way of snap elections expected to be held on 30 September after lawmakers adopted a constitutional amendment on Wednesday that most citizens oppose. To solve political turmoil in the country, 92 lawmakers...

Thousands of doctors, nurses, teachers and taxi drivers took to the streets of Barcelona and other major Catalan cities on Wednesday, pointing out their poor working conditions and low wages. Barcelona saw the protests of more than 15,000 doctors and...

Madrid is ready to send Ukraine its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and offer training to soldiers as part of a future operation coordinated by NATO allies, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Wednesday following German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s greenlight....

Denmark and Sweden are open to sending their own Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave his needed green light for other countries to send them too. After weeks of pressure on the home and international...

A Moscow court on Wednesday (25 January) ordered the closure of Russia's oldest human rights organisation, the Moscow Helsinki Group, silencing another respected institution amid a political crackdown.

Nordic and Baltic states do not want Russian and Belarussian athletes to take part in international sports though Finland’s Olympic Committee remains doubtful that the International Olympic Committee, which has begun to look into ways for athletes from such countries...

Officials from the UK, Gibraltar and the European Commission will meet on Thursday and Friday, in the latest attempt to break the deadlock on the status of the Rock, a former naval base, at the southern tip of Spain. Trade...

The cabinet needs to be more transparent about how billions of euros in funds greenlighted for the climate change fight will be used, the Court of Audit wrote in a letter to parliament on Wednesday.

Belgium will send new “substantial aid” to Ukraine that will not include tanks as the country’s own defence stock are limited, according to a proposal Defence Minister Ludivine Dedonder said she would present to the Council of Ministers on Friday....

Parliament approved the government’s amendment to the electricity cap with a majority on Wednesday to include households with more than three people from 1 June to 30 June next year, despite criticism from the opposition and experts.

The German economy, which grew 1.8% in 2022, is expected to only grow 0.2%, according to a government forecast presented by Economy Minister Robert Habeck. Reflecting on the economy last year, Habeck said “the country managed to avoid a deep...

Former leader of Albania’s opposition Democratic Party Lulzim Basha called on the five EU countries that do not recognise Kosovo to do so at a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) where the UK and...

Lukoil does not supply any of its fuel from Burgas, its plant in Bulgaria, to Ukraine, the company told a Russian news agency on Wednesday.

Czechia’s State Institute for Drug Control has detected illegal exports of medicines worth €2.3 million, with Deputy Health Minister Jakub Dvořáček announcing Czechia will double down on so-called “pharmacy crime”, which he said concerns the rest of Europe. The institute’s...

The West is using “colonialist methods”  as it is exerting “unprecedented” pressure on developing countries to support Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Angola on Wednesday. In a short statement to journalists at the end of an audience with...

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne did not rule out sending its Leclerc tanks to Ukraine but did not make an official announcement to that effect in an address to Senators on Wednesday. While Germany decided to greenlight sending heavy Leopard 2...

Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić hinted for the first time on Wednesday that Belgrade might change course and impose sanctions on Russia, one of the key EU demands for Serbia to progress in its EU membership talks. In an exclusive interview with...

The number of job-seekers in France dropped by 3.6% in the last quarter of 2022 to 3.05 million, the lowest figure since 2011. However, the French Central Bank warned that the unemployment rate might go up again in 2023.