Category: EU Reporter

Kosovo has put off new border rules with Serbia following another flare-up in ethnic violence.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said his country fully supports North Macedonia’s integration into the EU, AP reported. Sanchez held talks Sunday with North Macedonian prime minister Dimitar Kovachevski in the capital of Skopje, ahead of the last stop on his Western Balkan tour, visiting Albania on Monday. “We are more united now than ever […]

Britain will require foreign companies holding UK property to identify their true owners in an official register, the British government said on Monday. The move is part of a crackdown on Russian oligarchs and corrupt elites laundering illicit wealth, Reuters reported. It will seek to stop the flow of illicit Russian cash into London, and […]

Austrian leaders have appealed for an end to anti-vax hatred following the suicide of a well-known doctor, Lisa-Maria Kellermayr, who became vilified by the movement during the pandemic. “Hatred against people is inexcusable. This hatred must finally stop,” health minister Johannes Rauch said Saturday, Reuters reports, after Kellermayr’s body was found with a suicide note. […]

The uproar over Viktor Orbán’s speech hides Hungary’s deep economic woes — fuelled by steep inflation, rising energy costs, and the unsustainability of the price cap policy.

The EU’s investment package for development, the so-called ‘Global Gateway’, which Ursula von der Leyen described as the “future of the EU’s development cooperation”, seems fixated on boosting private sector investments in energy, infrastructure and climate-smart solutions in Africa.

Europeans howl in outrage about US backsliding on abortion rights — but they don’t exactly have their own house in order. Take the case of Bianca. She’s a Romanian.

The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is expected to reopen to worshippers and the public in 2024, culture minister Rima Abdul Malak said on Thursday, more than three years after its roof was destroyed in a massive blaze in 2019, AFP reports. The ministers said the clean-up phase of the restoration project had ended, allowing […]

German inflation increased in July driven by higher energy prices as Russia further reduced gas flows, Reuters reported. Consumer prices increased by 8.5 percent on the year, the federal statistics office said on Thursday. Energy prices were 35.7 percent higher in July against the same month last year, and food prices went up 14.8 percent […]

Former Russian TV presenter Marina Ovsyannikova was fined 50,000 roubles (€803) on Thursday after being found guilty of discrediting the country’s armed forces in social media posts condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, Reuters reports. Ovsyannikova, who came to worldwide prominence in March for holding an anti-war placard live on air on Russian state TV, rejected […]