EUROPEAN POLITICS

The International Monetary Fund has called on Albanian authorities to improve judicial and anti-corruption reforms while stressing the importance of an expedited exit from the FATF grey list, something that…

An investigation by Belgian authorities into alleged corruption between World Cup hosts Qatar and members of the European Parliament, leading to the arrest of Greek MEP and European Parliament Vice-President…

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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s mind was elsewhere at a summit of the European Union’s southern nations in Spain on Friday (9 December) — namely on his country’s stunning World…

Belgian police arrested a European Parliament vice-president and four others in connection with an investigation into corruption implicating World Cup hosts Qatar, the prosecutors office said Friday (9 December). Officers…

The Meloni government must bank on regasifiers for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be energy independent as soon as possible, senior executive of energy giant Eni said. The managing director…

Romanian politicians deplored Vienna’s “unjustified” decision to block the country’s access to Schengen, with many voices calling for a boycott of Austrian goods or companies. The Romanian Foreign Ministry said…

The backlash could not have been much swifter. The day after Austria and Netherlands decided to block the Schengen applications of Romania and Bulgaria, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

SMEs – key cog in the wheel of the EU economy. The World Economic Forum has stated in its annual report that was published earlier this year that cybersecurity is…

Washington is ready to lend support to Berlin in fighting extremism, the White House said after German investigators discovered a group of right-wing conspiracy theorists were planning a coup. About…