All but one EU member states agreed on the need for additional sanctions against Russia when discussing the issue at the meeting of foreign affairs ministers on Monday, said Slovak Foreign Minister Rastislav Káčer. Káčer did not disclose which country…
A bill reinforcing measures to combat football hooliganism following several incidents was drafted by Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden, the minister announced in a press release on Monday. The bill proposes measures giving football clubs greater responsibility for ensuring the…
Finns are increasingly turning to mobile apps to help them find better energy deals amid soaring prices and wildly fluctuating costs per unit. Many Finnish electricity companies have launched their own applications, and the Finns have answered the call. For…
More dialogue is required in order to discuss the inequality between men and women in the labour force, Social Affairs and Employment Minister Karien van Gennip wrote in a letter to the House of Representatives. Currently, women in the Netherlands…
Madrid’s regional centre-right President, Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused the Spanish left of orchestrating a politically biased demonstration against its government on Sunday – with the only aim of winning the next local election scheduled for May 2023. Some 200,000
The EU has strong reasons to doubt the word of Iranian authorities even though there is still no evidence Iran is supplying missiles to Russia, Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho said on Monday. “We have strong reasons to…
The Polish opposition has announced a vote of no confidence in the controversial anti-EU justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, leader of Solidarna Polska, amid uncertainty whether Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party will defend their coalition partner. Ziobro’s Solidarna…
The EU needs to be open to expansion eastwards because if a geopolitical vacuum is created in the Western Balkans, it will only be used by enemy forces, the Speaker of the Czech lower house warned on Monday. Speaking at…
(Photo: Tony Gonzalez) It is not rare for the EU Council to be out of touch with public opinion. This has happened once again with the EU AI Act, by exempting AI systems developed or used for ‘national security purposes’…
Spanish fighter jets began reconnaissance flights in the Bulgarian airspace over three major cities, Sofia, Plovdiv, and Burgas, the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence announced on Monday. The Spanish military deployed six Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft to Bulgaria on Friday to carry…