EUROPEAN POLITICS

The preliminary court date for the case against the elected but unsworn mayor of Himare, Fredi Beleri, has been set for Thursday, one day before the time limit for him…

After a year of huge profits due to the EU electricity market crisis, Bulgaria’s coal industry has started to lose taxpayers’ money, data from the state-owned company Mini Maritsa-Iztok according…

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The European Parliament is considering introducing ‘ad hoc’ committees with lawmaking powers for “legislative proposals falling within the competence of more than three committees”, according to a document seen by…

France aims to bring 150,000 new farmers into the profession over the next 10

The fate of the merger between Lufthansa and Italy’s ITA Airways, based on an agreement signed with the government in May, is now in doubt after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni…

After lengthy negotiations, the European Parliament is set to vote in Strasbourg on the report calling for a Europe-wide approach to prostitution, by decriminalising people in prostitution and supporting those…

The participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympics is unacceptable as the Russian and Belarusian governments are jointly responsible for ongoing war crimes against Ukraine, therefore the International…

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that Greece is closer to recognising Kosovo’s independence, taking the lead among the five EU member states that do not recognise it, but Athens…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is running out of time to shape a joint Franco-German legacy with French President Emmanuel Macron, with worries growing that his distanced approach to Paris will…