The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched an investigation into a contract about the upgrade of the signalling system on Greek trains and remote control. If functional, this equipment could have prevented Tuesday’s (28 February) train crash which killed…
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…
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…
Anyone who has been around the diplomatic block knows that you use almost any tactic at your disposal to get what you want. When waging her ultimately successful campaign to secure the UK’s rebate from the EU budget, Margaret Thatcher’s…
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…
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Slovenia is considering shortening the time asylum seekers must wait before accessing the labour market, with the Interior Ministry saying on Thursday that a proposal is already in the pipeline. The government is now looking into moving in the direction…
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…
Democrats said a trio of witnesses billed as “whistle-blowers” provided no evidence of wrongdoing, espoused false claims about the Capitol riot and were compensated by an ally of former President Donald J. Trump. Send any friend a story As a…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday (1 March) that a “tragic human error” was probably responsible for a train collision that left at least 38 dead in the country’s worst rail tragedy. Two carriages were crushed and a third…