EUROPEAN POLITICS

All dates after April are open to hold national elections, Greek media quoted government sources as saying, but the ongoing “Greek Watergate” scandal means that the elections will be held…

Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Giorgia Meloni met with European People’s Party (EPP) leader Manfred Weber in Rome as the two leaders work…

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Ireland’s hospitals are struggling to cope with the ‘perfect storm’ of COVID-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) patients, resulting in widespread overcrowding and lengthy delays. Hospital waiting times have…

Russian products under EU embargo are still flowing into EU countries, Czech investigative journalists revealed in Seznam Zpravy. The story shows gaps in the enforcement of EU sanctions. The investigative…

Two documents on boosting energy cooperation between Bulgaria and Greece, involving a commitment to build a new pipeline at neck-breaking speed and gas storage deal, were approved by the Bulgarian…

France will be sending tanks to Ukraine in an effort to expand its military aid, French President Emmanuel Macron told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Wednesday. “The president wished…

Fourteen candidates formally joined the race on Thursday (5 January) to become Cyprus’s next president in an election next month dominated by the island’s decades-old division, irregular migration and corruption…

A Belgian national was indicted for espionage and working against national security by Iran, said Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Hadja Lahbib, who received the confirmation of the suspect’s identity on…

The country may have its 13th president from the ranks of the Greens as the country makes preparations for the presidential elections in January 20