EUROPEAN POLITICS

Estonia this week will close its border to more than 50,000 Russians with previously issued visas, the first country in the European Union to do so, making it harder for…

Finland will slash the number of visas issued to Russians from 1 September, the Finnish foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday (16 August), amid a rush of Russian…

UK Conservative Liz Truss, the favourite to become prime minister next month, suggested Britons lacked “skill and application” and needed to work harder, in a leaked audio recording released Tuesday…

The two candidates battling to be Britain’s next prime minister will vie to present themselves as defenders of Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom on Tuesday (16 August) by promising…

The EU on Sunday (14 August) said it was “particularly concerned” about worsening conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan after the country’s ruling Taliban violently broke up a women’s…

Greek police said on Monday afternoon (15 August) they had located 38 Syrian refugees in the Lavara area of Evros, among them one pregnant woman and seven children. The refugees…

The number of migrants arriving in the European Union rose by 86%t between January and July compared to the same period last year, the European border agency Frontex said Friday…

Eleven people including two children were shot dead in Montenegro on Friday (12 August) evening in the deadliest mass shooting the Western Balkan country has ever experienced. Asides from the…

Italy’s right-wing parties, heading for victory in September elections, released a plan for government Thursday (11 August), promising low taxes, “defence of the homeland”, EU reform and support for NATO…

A Russian national who burned his passport in Bulgaria in protest against the war in Ukraine is likely to be extradited to his country of origin after a decision of…