People left homeless as heavy rains hit Portugal
Tuesday’s heavy rains which flooded streets and swept away cars have also left 83 people homeless, the country’s civil protection authority said on Wednesday. Heavy rain battered parts of Portugal…
December 2022
Frontex, Malta accused of facilitating migrant human rights violations
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has implicated a drone registered and operated out of Malta by a private company on behalf of the EU border guard agency Frontex in human rights…
Polish parliament receives judicial reform bill to unblock EU funds
Poland is getting closer to unblocking the EU recovery funds worth almost €35 billion, of which €23 billion are grants, as parliament has just received a bill that aims to…
U.S. Will Offer Free At-Home Covid Tests as Part of Winter Plan
With cases on the rise, the Biden administration said it would restart a program that provided hundreds of millions of tests through the Postal Service. Send any friend a story…
Energy crisis hits Slovak industry hardest most in V4
Energy price hikes and a shortage in energy supplies have hit Slovakia’s industry harder than those of other Visegrad Four countries despite it recording a slight production spike while significant…
Romania will not challenge Austria’s Schengen veto in EU court
President Klaus Iohannis responded to Romanian voices calling for a boycott of Austrian goods and companies after Vienna voted against Romania’s Schengen accession, saying he preferred a diplomatic solution that…
EU, US in Belgrade over tensions in north Kosovo
The special representative of the European Union for the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, met in Belgrade with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, to discuss the ongoing…
Joint patrols resume at Italian-Slovenian border
Slovenia and Italy will resume joint border patrols at their common border and carry out checks on buses, trains and cars travelling from Slovenia to Italy to respond to the…
Dutch-German migrant worker scandal reveals gaps in EU cooperation
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EU-Qatar graft scandal uncovered by year-long, pan-Europe probe, Belgium says
Belgium’s intelligence service worked closely with other European countries for more than a year to uncover the graft scandal now rocking the European Parliament, the justice ministry said on Wednesday…