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Bulgaria will have two opportunities to join the visa-free Schengen zone this year, namely in October and December, Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov announced on Sunday. Bulgaria and Romania are both vying for Schengen membership, but the Netherlands and Austria...

The family of a Swedish EU employee detained in Iran have urged the international community to help secure his release after over 500 days of incarceration for alleged spying, his family said on Sunday (10 September).

Only four of the nine parties likely to get into parliament after the 30 September snap elections support sanctions against Putin’s regime, with frontrunner Smer wanting to “evaluate their efficiency”, according to an analysis. Most Slovak parties have unclear or...

The migration referendum that will take place in October is fully political, and the government does not care about the Polish people’s minds, said opposition Civic Platform MP Michał Szczerba. Earlier this summer, ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party...

Spain’s Supreme Court could annul the ‘impunity agreement’ currently under negotiation, which separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has set as an ultimatum to support a Sanchez-led government, leader of the centre-right Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, told La Razón. On 5...

Belgium is hosting the 19th informal summit of the heads of state of German-speaking countries, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland, on Monday and Tuesday. While the summit initially included countries where German was the primary language, Belgium and Luxembourg...

Billions of euros in state aid must be given to Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC because of Germany’s lack of competitiveness, said Saxony’s chief Michael Kretschmer after his government drew criticism for the huge amount of state aid it plans to pour...

This weekend’s G20 summit in New Delhi produced insufficient outcomes on climate change, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday (10 September), blaming countries that want to keep fossil fuels in the global energy mix.

When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to Qatar next week, it will trigger a sequence that will see as many as five detained US dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the US fly home.

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that Greece is closer to recognising Kosovo’s independence, taking the lead among the five EU member states that do not recognise it, but Athens told EURACTIV that nothing has changed. Greece, Slovakia, Romania, Spain,...

The participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Olympics is unacceptable as the Russian and Belarusian governments are jointly responsible for ongoing war crimes against Ukraine, therefore the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should make them play under a neutral...

The fate of the merger between Lufthansa and Italy’s ITA Airways, based on an agreement signed with the government in May, is now in doubt after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni questioned the European Commission for stalling its go-ahead for the...

France aims to bring 150,000 new farmers into the profession over the next 10 years to replace the many who will retire during that period while speeding up the sector’s ecological transition, French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau announced on Sunday....

The Netherlands should negotiate an opt-out in the fields of nature and migration policy in case of a re-opening of the EU treaties, agrarian protest party Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) said in its concept election program published on Friday. After landing...

US President Joe Biden on Sunday (10 September) secured deals with Vietnam on semiconductors and minerals as the strategic Southeast Asian nation lifted Washington to Hanoi's highest diplomatic status alongside China and Russia.

The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels will appear at hearings at an international court in Hamburg and seek an advisory opinion on the obligations of countries to combat climate change.

Russia on Sunday (10 September) wrapped up widely denounced regional and municipal elections, including in regions annexed from Ukraine, delivering strong support for President Vladimir Putin amidst criticism of vote rigging and Kyiv's push to reclaim its land.

US President Joe Biden said on Sunday (10 September) he held his highest level talks with Chinese leadership in months, adding that Beijing's economic wobbles would not lead it to invade Taiwan.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Sunday (10 September) retracted his recent threat to the top international envoy to Bosnia that he would be arrested if he enters the country's Serb entity.

Greek rescue teams recovered the bodies of four more people in central Greece on Sunday (10 September), raising the death toll to 15 from the country's most intense rain storm since records began in 1930.