Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, imprisoned in Iran for almost a year over espionage, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison and 74 lashes, Iranian news agencies report. After being arrested in February 20
Dutch and Belgian customs will continue their cooperation against drug smuggling in the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp in 20
An increase of 75% in wind power capacity in 20
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko has reached out to Copenhagen Mayor Sophie Hæstorp Andersen to discuss a twinning agreement between both cities to reinforce cooperation. Based on a proposal from Kyiv, the city of Copenhagen’s economic affairs department has prepared a…
Italy and Japan agreed to become strategic partners and cooperate in various sectors, from defence to culture, after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Rome on Tuesday. Rome is the second stop on…
The Spanish government will request authorisation from the European Commission to extend the so-called “Iberian derogation”, an exceptional measure limiting the gas price for electricity generation in Spain and Portugal until the end of 20
The three former Guantánamo prisoners who defeated George W. Bush at the Supreme Court in landmark cases are ensconced in family life. We caught up with two of them. One is a home-heating serviceman in central England; the other is…
In a concession to opponents, Emmanuel Macron would not raise the pension age to 65, and phase-in the increase to 64 over a period of seven years (Photo: consilium.europa.eu) Emmanuel Macron’s government has proposed to raise France’s pension age from…
The European Union should respond to the measures some countries have taken in their own interests, like the US Inflation Reduction Act, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said at a conference in Madrid on Tuesday. As part of Breton’s…
More than 3,300 nurses have left Portugal since the start of the pandemic in 20