Category: EU Reporter

Portugal is causing distress for its British residents after failing to issue new ID cards giving them access to services in the wake of Brexit. “The seriousness [of not having the card] … cannot be underestimated, it has paralysed and damaged UK nationals … emotionally, physically and financially,” Tig James, co-president of the British in […]

The EU has postponed the entry into force of a new travel-document regime for foreign visitors until November 2023, Euronews reports. The European Travel Information and Authorisation System was supposed to start life in May, seeing visitors from EU visa-waiver countries, such as the UK and the US, fill out an online form and pay […]

Data released by the European Drought Observatory show 60 percent of Europe and the United Kingdom is currently in a state of drought, with farming, homes and industry being affected. Drought conditions have also led to an increase in wildfires.

Greece has become embroiled in a wiretapping scandal that led to the resignation of its intelligence chief as well as the Greek prime minister’s top aide.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant over the weekend.

Italy has lurched closer to electing a far-right government in September after a centre-left coalition broke down on Sunday.

Water levels on the Rhine River are set to fall perilously close to the point at which it would effectively close, according to German data. This puts the trade of huge quantities of goods at risk and also hampers EU plans to increase the movement of goods along waterways by 25 percent by 2030, as […]

Last month’s declaration by the breakaway Moldovan region of Transniestria that it wanted to join Russia, coupled with a spike in anonymous bomb threats in Chișinău, looked like “a kind of prelude to an operation in Moldova”, Oleg Serebrian, Moldova’s deputy prime minister, told The Times. Transniestria hosts at least 1,500 Russian troops. Russia-friendly separatists […]

Afghan nationals who had worked for the German government are being prevented by the Taliban from fleeing the country, report German media outlets. News magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday said an emergency plan by the German government to evacuate thousands of former local staff of German institutions had stalled. It said Berlin had wanted to […]

Amnesty International apologised on Sunday for “distress and anger” caused by a report released on Thursday which stated that the presence of Ukrainian troops in residential areas heightened risks to civilians during Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian army officials said they try to evacuate civilians from front-line areas. In an email to Reuters Amnesty said it had […]