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Zsófia Koncz won the by-election in the Tiszaújváros – Szerencs constituency with 50.9% of the vote, securing Fidesz’s two-thirds supermajority in the Hungarian parliament on Sunday. The elections had to be called after Koncz’s father died in a motorcycle accident...

The Greek court is expected to announce today the sentences against neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party which was branded last week as a criminal organisation. The court will decide whether there are grounds for recognising mitigating circumstances, something that will eventually...

The much-awaited exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey face a fresh stalemate as Turkey has decided to re-escalate by sending back Oruç Reis vessel to Greece’s continental shelf, south of the island of Kastelorizo. The removal of Oruç Reis vessel...

Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his socialist counterpart from Portugal, Antonio Costa, agreed during the “Iberian Summit” in Guarda (Portugal) on Saturday to unite forces, and cooperate on so-called joint “Iberian” projects, EURACTIV’s partner EuroEFE has reported. The...

Is the US election a done deal? Not yet, says Dick Roche, and explains why it is too early to consider that Donald Trump will necessarily lose.

Though Italy is tightening its COVID-19 restrictions by imposing the mandatory use of face masks indoors and outdoors even while walking but not running or jogging, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said that “Italy cannot face another lockdown. Its...

Facebook content moderators in Dublin have hit out at their working conditions, amid a worsening public health emergency in Ireland. Internal messages boards seen by The Sunday Times reveal that workers located at the Nova Atria building at Facebook’s Dublin...

Liverpool is set to be subject to the tightest new local lockdown rules in England when the government’s new ‘three-tier’ system is announced on Monday. Merseyside, which includes Liverpool, is expected to be the only part of England to face...

The Social Democrats (SPÖ) defended their top position with 42% of the votes (up 2.4%) in the Viennese state election on Sunday (11 October), making them the undisputed rulers of Austria’s capital, thus dubbed “Red Vienna.” Their former main challenger,...

As Belgium over the weekend ranked second place in Europe in terms of COVID-19 infections, health minister Frank Vandenbroucke said he cannot guarantee there will be no second lockdown. “It’s not simple. I can’t anticipate the facts, but I can,...

As the number of coronavirus infections continues to rise, cities and localities across Germany are implementing new restrictions in the hopes that this will help curb the spread of the virus without having to undergo a second lockdown. Frankfurt and...

The European Central Bank will on Monday (12 October) launch a public consultation and start experiments to help it decide whether to create a "digital euro" for the 19-nation currency club.

Poland should act as ‘the integrator’ within the transatlantic community, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday as he summed up the 10th Congress ‘Poland: A Great Project’ – the most important meeting of opinion-forming conservative circles in Poland....

Security forces in Belarus detained dozens of protesters on Sunday (11 October) and used force, including water cannon and batons, to break up crowds demanding a new presidential election, TV footage showed.

Our online world lends itself well to a conversation with citizens about the future of Europe. And yet, European leaders have so far failed to reach agreement, even on who should chair the long promised Conference on the Future of Europe, writes Roger Casale.

The "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance demanded Sunday that tech companies insert "backdoors" in encrypted apps to allow law enforcement agencies the access they say they need to police online criminality.

A draft version of the European Commission’s methane strategy, expected to come out on Wednesday (14 October), doesn't set limits on methane emissions from fossil fuels, instead setting the stage for that to happen as of 2025.

New EU measures regulating the web should avoid, in the first instance, rules on the hosting of online content deemed "harmful" but not "illegal", a Brussels trade association representing the world's largest online platforms has said.

Britain might float nets in the English Channel to disable the boats of migrants trying to cross from France, its Home Office "channel threat commander", Dan O'Mahoney, told the Daily Telegraph newspaper this weekend. The nets would "clog propellers and bring boats to a standstill", enabling the coastguard to take people on board and return them to the French coast, he said, despite fears that they could cause dangerous accidents.

EU states, late Friday, agreed new measures to harmonise travel rules. A Swedish-based EU agency will designate European regions as green, amber, red, or grey (insufficient data) based on weekly updates. All states are to allow green-zone visitors and impose the same testing or quarantine rules for red zones. Some Bulgarian, Cypriot, Greek, German, Italian, Nordic and Baltic regions were the only ones that would qualify as green, for now.