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Croatian President Zoran Milanović has responded to the strong public backlash he has received for pardoning convicted war criminal Branimir Glavaš who was sentenced for crimes against Serbs in Osijek during the Homeland War.  “Glavaš himself has asked for that....

Romania should do more to crack down on human trafficking by ensuring offenders are punished and victims compensated, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) has urged. Romania has continued to develop...

Bulgaria’s health ministry revealed on Thursday that under the former government of Boyko Borissov the state hospital performed organ transplants on poor live donors for rich “uncles” operating under a false identity for which the ministry has “every reason to...

Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has in the run-up to the European Council of 24 and 25 June described the country’s six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union as a “difficult” stint that involved much work, warning...

A recent survey by political think-tank Globsec showed as many as 55% of Slovaks view Russian President Vladimir Putin positively and for 47% of respondents, Russia is Slovakia’s most important partner. However, the survey showed the Russian Sputnik Vaccine V is still...

The digital version of the Hungarian immunity card will include the type of vaccination and the dates of both vaccinations by 15 June, and so will comply with EU regulations, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff told journalists on Thursday,...

Polish Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek has been criticised over a visit to a school in Łuków to celebrate its 60th anniversary amid reports that the headmistress suggested that the youngest children, seriously disabled children and those with the lowest grades not...

Italian trade unions reacted furiously to the European Commission’s technical document annexed to the spring recommendations published on Wednesday slamming Rome’s pandemic-era freeze on job cuts. The document called Rome’s 2020 freeze on layoffs “not effective” and warned that if...

Estonia’s parliament has passed a ban on fur farming with 56 votes in favour and 19 against, ERR News reported. The amendments made to the Animal Protection Act and Nature Conservation Act, passed on Wednesday, prohibit breeding if its only purpose is...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Thursday called for more support from Brussels to help protect the country’s border with Belarus. “We need to seriously step up the protection of our external border for illegal migration not to become a...

With restrictions easing across Europe, a new survey by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) has found out that some 20% of workers in Finland would like to work at home permanently and more...

Newly elected DUP leader Edwin Poots met with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in Dublin on Thursday evening for the first time since taking over from Arlene Foster to primarily discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol, in a discussion Poots is...

Austria’s constitutional judge Wolfgang Brandstätter has resigned after it was revealed he had exchanged messages over WhatsApp with the justice ministry’s former department director, Christian Pilnacek, about alleged acts of corruption, as well as a contempt for the rule of...

French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Thursday that the planned pension reform could not “be resumed as is” after being halted by the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The debate on the reform plan has been controversial in France, giving...

Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, who was arrested after his plane was forced to land in Minsk, appeared on state television Thursday (4 June) in a tearful interview that family and campaigners say was conducted under duress.

The Czech Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security has claimed that President Miloš Zeman is incapable of serving in his position and proposed that he be stripped of the post. Parliament’s upper house is set to vote on...

Carbon prices on the EU emissions trading scheme are currently rising too fast, making the market extremely volatile, but it seems the European Commission has no effective stabilising tool to tackle this, writes Robert Jeszke and Sebastian Lizak.

Europe's metals recycling industry could collapse under the European Commission's proposed changes to waste shipments that clamp down on exports to encourage recycling, members of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) have warned.

As the number of COVID-19 patients is well below the threshold, the country’s different governments are set to meet on Friday to discuss the conditions under which citizens will be able to travel during the summer and announce the next...

Germany conservatives are bracing for what is likely to be a bruising result in Sunday's regional election in the eastern state of Saxony Anhalt, with polls suggesting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) are set to gain more than a fifth of the vote.