Former Bulgarian tsar and prime minister from 2001 to 2005, Simeon II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, hosted the Russian Metropolitan Antony and the Russian ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova in his home on Tuesday evening. The photos were published in the Moscow Patriarchate along...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that his army could be fighting in Ukraine for a long time, but for now there will be no second call-up of soldiers.

The authorities of Karlovy Vary, a Czech spa city close to German borders, face criticism for a campaign attracting Russian-speaking tourists. The Russian clientele was crucial, but the number of Russians in Karlovy Vary has dropped significantly due to sanctions....

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a report on Thursday (8 December) dissecting how biases develop in algorithms apply to predictive policing and content moderation models.

On November 30, 2022, the European Commission published the Circular Economy Packaging II introducing the awaiting revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, turning it into a Regulation (PPWR).

More Poles have died in 2022 than in 2019, which means that Poles are now dying more than before the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, 408,000 people died in Poland. This is 30,000 more than in 2019. Specifically, 56,000 more Poles...

The final text on decriminalising medically assisted death was approved on Wednesday in the committee stage and will go ahead to the final plenary vote on Friday. The vote on the text in favour of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs,...

The government is considering measures to contain food prices to be adopted in the framework of a new anti-crisis package before the end of the year, revealed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Sánchez told a press conference that the third...

At least 150 people were injured after two suburban trains collided in the Spanish town of Montcada i Reixac, near Barcelona on Wednesday, emergency officials said. The local emergency services reported that 150 people were in a “mild condition” and...

Milan's La Scala theatre opened its 2022-2023 opera season on Wednesday (7 December) with a gala performance of the Russian work "Boris Godunov" as protesters against the Ukrainian war demonstrated outside the venue.

The parliament elected social democrat Élisabeth Baume-Schneider and nationalist-conservative Albert Rösti to the government in a vote on Wednesday after the resignation of two members of the seven-headed Swiss Federal Council. Baume-Schneider will replace the social-democrat Federal Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga,...

The EU carbon removal framework has the right level of ambition, but needs clearer definitions and strategy to drive growth in this market, writes Victoria Harvey.

Workers’ net monthly salary in both the private and public sectors will increase by at least €50 starting in January. Workers’ salaries will increase by €600 net per year due to tax scale adaptation and the calculation of the withholding...

The government’s new circular economy strategy focussing on higher recycling rates in 2030 should help reduce Austria’s resource use significantly by 2050. Austria is a heavy user of resources, even by EU standards. In 2018, Austrians consumed 19 tons of...

French citizens who drive to work will be eligible for a new 2023 direct transfer scheme amounting to €100, announced Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne, adding that it will only be granted to those earning under a specific salary. It is...

Following explosions and attacks amid preparations for elections to replace ethnic Serb representatives in institutions in the north of Kosovo, the head of EULEX, Lars-Gunnar Wigemark expressed concern over the situation. Kosovo police said that masked individuals damaged the offices...

Southern Slovak gas stations were flooded with Hungarians from border regions this week as Hungary deals with fuel shortages caused by government’s price cap. According to local media reports, long queues have been forming outside Hungarian gas stations since the...

If government rules are broken one more time, there will no longer be a government, Prime Minister Sanna Marin warned after a turbulent day in the parliament and a meeting between five party leaders on Wednesday. From tax issues to...

Her government took too long to react to Moscow’s aggressive behaviour at the time, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during an interview, adding that a diplomatic solution needs to be found to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. The conservative...

After Kosovo unveiled plans to apply for EU membership before the end of the year, its president told EURACTIV in an interview that progress is being made in lobbying the five EU member states that currently do not recognise the country.