For Democrats, Spending Package Marked One Final Opportunity

For all their accomplishments in the past two years, Democrats face a far tougher environment to see most of their priorities through. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

For all their accomplishments in the past two years, Democrats face a far tougher environment to see most of their priorities through. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

The president’s pardons continued a series of drug-related reprieves this year. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

Romanian prosecutors said on Thursday (29 December) they have detained divisive internet personality and former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group. American-BritishTate, banned from many social media platforms for misogynistic…

Investigators said the pharmaceutical manufacturer, one of the nation’s largest, had knowingly distributed opioids that were later resold illegally. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

Czechia is heading to the polls to elect a new president in January to replace the controversial Miloš Zeman after a ten-year tenure in office. While it is unlikely that any candidate will win the majority of the votes in…

Finland will send Ukraine military aid worth €28.8 million, bringing total contributions to €189.2 million and making it the eleventh package sent there since the start of the war, the defence ministry announced after it got the green light from…

The Italian government of conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will introduce food assistance for vulnerable families based on a proposal made by Democratic Party MPs. Under the proposal, every low-income family will receive assistance, including food and drink selected from…

An effort to force a vote to maintain Title 42, a pandemic-era border policy, has stalled the scramble to pass the spending package before a midnight Friday deadline. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

In an essay for the Atlantic Council published in December 2021, I stated that Europe’s future would be decided in Ukraine. One year on, what may earlier have seemed like a bold statement is now recognizable fact. Ukraine has become…

Croatia’s sole pipeline operator, JANAF, has signed a two-year contract with Serbia’s NIS, majority owned by Russia’s Gazprom, for transporting crude oil to Serbia, despite previously announcing it would halt such transport as the EU tightened restrictions on Russian oil…

Following the government’s collapse last week, shareholders of Slovenské elektrárne a.s decided not to approve the price cap deal, which would have delivered price-capped electricity to households, several sources confirmed to EURACTIV Slovakia. Under the deal, which has now been…

Two in three Bulgarian entrepreneurs favour joining the Eurozone in 2024 to adopt the euro, but society is much less inclined to back the currency shift, a recent study has found. The study, conducted by Alfa Research at the start…