Vladimir Putin visited Minsk for the first time in three-and-a-half years on December 19. This rare international trip sparked speculation that the Russian dictator may be seeking to personally pressure his Belarusian counterpart into joining Moscow’s faltering invasion of Ukraine.…
Hungary must avoid recession next year and curb inflation to single digits by the end of 2023, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday, adding that surging inflation put “huge pressure” on the central bank’s governor. Hungary’s nationalist leader is…
Finland will send Ukraine military aid worth €28.8 million, bringing total contributions to €189.2 million and making it the eleventh package sent there since the start of the war, the defence ministry announced after it got the green light from…
The Italian government of conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will introduce food assistance for vulnerable families based on a proposal made by Democratic Party MPs. Under the proposal, every low-income family will receive assistance, including food and drink selected from…
An effort to force a vote to maintain Title 42, a pandemic-era border policy, has stalled the scramble to pass the spending package before a midnight Friday deadline. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
In an essay for the Atlantic Council published in December 2021, I stated that Europe’s future would be decided in Ukraine. One year on, what may earlier have seemed like a bold statement is now recognizable fact. Ukraine has become…
Croatia’s sole pipeline operator, JANAF, has signed a two-year contract with Serbia’s NIS, majority owned by Russia’s Gazprom, for transporting crude oil to Serbia, despite previously announcing it would halt such transport as the EU tightened restrictions on Russian oil…
Following the government’s collapse last week, shareholders of Slovenské elektrárne a.s decided not to approve the price cap deal, which would have delivered price-capped electricity to households, several sources confirmed to EURACTIV Slovakia. Under the deal, which has now been…
Two in three Bulgarian entrepreneurs favour joining the Eurozone in 2024 to adopt the euro, but society is much less inclined to back the currency shift, a recent study has found. The study, conducted by Alfa Research at the start…
Children aged between six months and four years who are considered particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 are recommended to get the vaccine as the virus is actively spreading, a recommendation issued by the national health authority on Monday writes. The recommendation…