The federal government is responsible for the country’s struggle to provide accommodation to asylum seekers, Flemish Housing Minister Matthias Diependaele said on Thursday. As the number of asylum seekers increases and the number of places to sleep decreases, the Federal…
Legal amendments will be tabled in Maltese parliament next week to allow the legal termination of a pregnancy when the woman’s life is in danger, a first for the country with the strictest abortion rules in Europe. Abortion is currently…
Most Bulgarian citizens still support the country’s Schengen membership, but the numbers are decreasing a sociological survey conducted by the Open Society Institute in Sofia revealed. More than 42% of respondents support Bulgaria’s Schengen membership, less than 34% are against…
The government’s standing vaccine committee has decided not to recommend vaccinating small children against COVID-19, instead recommending it only for those with certain pre-existing conditions. The body concluded that the COVID-19 jab should not be recommended to children under four…
Western and Ukrainian officials have said Moscow’s stockpile of missiles was dwindling. But the assaults this week raise questions about that. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
We must not politicise sports, said French President Emmanuel Macron, who will travel to Qatar to support the French team if it reaches the semi-final, the Elysée said earlier this week. A few days before the start of the World…
Student activists have occupied university lecture halls in Vienna, Salzburg, and Innsbruck amid rising discontent with the government’s handling of the climate crisis, the education system, and social injustice. Student protests – particularly the occupation of universities – are common…
The conditionality procedure was conceived as a preventive tool to protect the financial interests of the EU but if it is turned into a political sanctioning mechanism, the whole exercise will become a collective failure, writes Judit Varga. Judit Varga…
A gang of criminals who regularly transport migrants from Tunisia to Italy were intercepted by Italian authorities as they were leaving Sicily. Their alleged plan was to travel from Sicily to Tunisia to pick up a ‘cargo’ of migrants to…
By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News Russia has suffered a major defeat in the south of Ukraine, withdrawing from the western Kherson region . Here are the latest developments: The city of Kherson has been liberated by Ukrainian troops…