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Kosovo must work towards deescalating the situation in north Kosovo EU’s envoy Miroslav Lajčak and his US counterpart Gabriel Escobar said in Belgrade Tuesday evening,  while Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić called for Kosovo to meet its obligations, including by forming...

Slovenia has been elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2024-2025, reaching the required backing from two-thirds of the UN member states in the first round of voting on Tuesday and beating Belarus in the Eastern European...

The Romanian authorities are not as tough in their relations with Russia as other NATO member states, Valery Kuzmin, Russia’s ambassador to Bucharest, said on Tuesday, noting the door for future relationships is still somewhat open. The diplomat made the...

Psilocybin, MDMA or LSD might associate with party drugs but their therapeutic value is being discovered worldwide.

Kosovar Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla announced the arrest of a suspect believed to be involved in smuggling and the threatening of Deputy Mayor of Leopsavic, Dragana Miletic, has been arrested while President Vjosa Osmani said the time of impunity for...

The Polish Supreme Court issued a ruling rejecting President Andrzej Duda’s pardon of the Interior Minister and  head of the country’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, Mariusz Kamiński. In 2015, Duda pardoned Kamiński, Maciej Wąsik, his deputy in the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau...

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates, Greens/EFA) warned against a worsening security environment and called for further investments in the defence sector. According to the head of the Czech diplomacy, the country has to consider the new reality and adopt...

The arrest of a Maltese woman for having a medical abortion at home has divided Maltese society, with pro-choice groups calling for urgent changes to the law and staging protests, and the prime minister declaring it makes him feel ‘uncomfortable’....

The European Parliament’s main political groups have united to demand a ‘full scale’ election observation mission ahead of Poland’s crucial general election later this year. 

The International Airlines Group (IAG), Iberia’s parent company, is considering bidding in the privatisation of TAP, in parallel with the process of buying Air Europa, if the move makes sense for the company and it is allowed to participate in...

Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, will keep up the pressure on the leader of centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to accept more than one debate with him before the general election. On Monday, the PP declined Sanchez´s invitation...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is acting as an intermediary between Tunis and the IMF to unblock funding that would help stabilise Tunisia’s fragile democracy to the benefit of coastal control and illegal departures to Italian shores. Meloni was in...

The Swedish government’s top priority is to become a full member of NATO before the defence alliance’s next summit in Vilnius in July, Defence Minister Pål Jonson said on Tuesday ahead of an important meeting with NATO leadership this week....

A growing number of Finnish citizens demand the Russian consulate in the Capital of Åland, Mariehamn, is shut down as threats to security have started to grow since Finland became NATO’s newest member. Already in April, a citizens’ initiative was...

The UN General Assembly elected Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and South Korea to the UN Security Council for two-year terms starting on 1 January 2024, while Belarus - allied with Russia in its invasion of Ukraine - was denied a spot.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has warned that the country will hold a third round of elections if an absolute majority to form a single-party government is not reached in the second round on 25 June. Greek ruling New Democracy...

Almost 2,000 on-call Irish firefighters embarked on a series of strikes on Tuesday to protest their working conditions, adding that if their demands are not met by 20 June, they will go on an all-out strike and only respond to...

Two months after its submission to a Belgian court, the complaint filed by a Belgian lobbyist against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen remains at the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). On 5 April, Frédéric Baldan, a Belgian lobbyist,...

The European Parliament in Brussels was searched again on Tuesday amid the Qatargate investigation, a corruption scandal involving several MEPs. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced it searched several offices in the European Parliament building, without specifying which ones, but...

The Netherlands will purchase 14 H225 Caracal helicopters to carry out special operations, replacing the nation’s current fleet of Cougar transport helicopters from 2028 onwards, the Defence Ministry has announced. The country’s current Cougar transport helicopters have been in use...