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…
Police and the Public Prosecution Service expect they will soon have more information on a potential follow-up investigation into the downing of flight MH17. On Thursday, a Dutch court sentenced three men to life imprisonment for their role in firing…
Image source, Pool/Getty ImagesImage caption, The wreckage of MH17 was painstakingly reassembled in the Netherlands and later inspected as part of the trialBy Paul KirbyBBC News Australia has called on Russia to extradite three men found guilty of downing a…
Image caption, Katya Adler travelled to the Baltic Sea, Norway's Russian border, and (pictured) a Norwegian oil fieldBy Europe editor Katya Adler, Baltic SeaBBC News Prosecutors in Sweden say explosions on a gas pipeline between Russia and Europe were the…
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday recommended that Finland continue structural reforms to boost long-term growth in its concluding statement on the country’s economic outlook. The statement listed structural reforms as a priority to boost long-term growth, and Finland was…
The negative attitude of the Netherlands and similar stance from Sweden could result in the de-coupling of Bulgaria and Romania in terms of their Schengen membership, EURACTIV Bulgaria learned from sources in Sofia and European institutions. Those close to the…
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…
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Viktor Bout, known as the merchant of death, is serving a 25-year sentence in the US Russia is hopeful it can agree a prisoner swap with the US that would include infamous arms trafficker Viktor…
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…
A €9.45 million grant to mitigate the impact on the local economy following the eruption of the La Palma volcano eruption in September 20