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
According to a recent United Survey, most Poles think that breaking the current stalemate between Poland and the European Commission over the recovery plan will be decisive in autumn’s parliamentary elections. The Commission has blocked funds worth €35.4 billion that…
Extreme drought affected large parts of Slovakia during periods that are typically wet, resulting in low farm yields and affecting forest ecosystems, the country’s Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ) claims in a recent analysis. In 20
Rallies were held in nine Slovenian cities Tuesday in support of the preservation of public healthcare amidst underfunding and understaffing concerns, but a strike that would have shut down most non-essential services for 24 hours was ultimately called off. The…
Greek chief prosecutor Isidoros Ntogiakos caused shockwaves on Tuesday after he ruled that the independent authority responsible for privacy issues (ADAE) cannot conduct audits of telecommunication companies to find out who is under surveillance by Greek secret services. He even…