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After the defeat in the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen's right-wing Rassemblement National renewed its discourse about Europe, aiming to appeal to a wider electorate, but it is uncertain if this shift will give Le Pen a shot at winning the keys to the Elysée Palace in April

Während Bundeswirtschafts- und Klimaminister Robert Habeck eingesteht, dass Deutschland vom Erreichen seiner ambitionierten Klimaziele weit entfernt ist, saß der Mann der dies ändern soll direkt neben ihm.

Hungarian president János Áder has set 3 April as the day for parliamentary elections that will see a coalition of six opposition parties led by Péter Márki-Zay try to unseat right-wing prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has held power for 12 years and tried to transform the country into an "illiberal democracy". Orbán is also keen to hold a referendum on LGBTI measures the same day.

Taiwan has granted Lithuania a $1bn (€0.9bn) credit line to help Lithuanian firms invest in microchip production in the Asian country and to offset economic losses caused by an informal China trade embargo. The move comes shortly after Taipei unveiled a $200m investment fund for inside Lithuania. And the aid "can be stepped up further," it said, after Lithuania braved China's ire to let Taiwan open a quasi-embassy in Vilnius.

Milánóban újra megnyitották a vásártéren felállított, koronavírusos betegeket fogadó Covid-19-kórházat, a szicíliai Palermóban tábori kórházakkal igyekeznek enyhíteni az olasz egészségügy telítettségét az omikron variáns terjedése miatt, amely a járvány minden korábbi hullámához képest több megbetegedéshez vezetett kedden.

A marble fragment of the Parthenon temple has been returned to Athens from a museum in Sicily, Reuters reports. Officials hope this move will advance efforts to have the British Museum send back ancient sculptures from Greece's most renowned ancient landmark. "It is marvellous that Sicilian and Italian friends thought to bring it back where it was born," Acropolis Museum director Nikolaos Stampolidis said of the fragment.

The European Union's drug regulator on Tuesday (11 January) expressed doubts about the need for a fourth booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine and said there is currently no data to support this approach as it seeks more data on the fast-spreading Omicron variant.

Russia staged live-fire military drills using tanks and some 3,000 soldiers on Ukraine's border Tuesday, while the Kremlin said it was ready to walk away from talks with the West if there was no quick outcome. Meanwhile, US negotiator Wendy Sherman flew to Brussels to brief EU and Nato ambassadors, ahead of discussions in the Nato-Russia Council, and Ukraine urged Germany to show more leadership on the crisis.

It is imperative to mend relations with Croats and Croatia because the current tensions are harming both peoples and countries, the leader of BiH’s Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Bakir Izetbegović said, on Monday as he met with Croatian Prime...

Albanian police have been criticised by international media freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders for “deliberately” targeting clearly identifiable journalists with water cannons and tear gas following Saturday’s unrest. On Saturday, a conflict took place at the Democratic Party headquarters in...

Following Kosovo’s ban on cryptocurrency mining, authorities are cracking down on those who still have the equipment in their possession, including those in the Serb-majority north who do not pay for electricity. The ban was enforced to respond to the...

The departure of Milo Đukanović from the head of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) is not a precondition for forming a minority government, but it would significantly facilitate communication and relations between the parties Deputy Prime Minister and leader...

Prime Minister-designate Dimitar Kovačevski has sent the list of cabinet nominees and the government’s potential programme to parliament. Speaker Talaf Xhaferi scheduled the session for selecting the new government for 15 January. In the new government, the Albanian party DUI...

MPs Ivana Kekin and Urša Raukar of the Green-Left Bloc on Tuesday called for the resignation of Croatian National Bank (HNB) Governor Boris Vujčić and HNB Council members following revelations that HNB officials and staff had traded in securities of...

Serbian Patriarch Porfirije has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be treated at home, the Serbian Orthodox Church Information Office said on Tuesday. “His Holiness has very mild symptoms, adequate therapy has been administered, and he has been obeying all...

Bulgaria’s president, the prime minister, some key ministers, and most parliamentary political party leaders were quarantined on Tuesday because they came in contact with parliament president Nikola Minchev, who was infected with COVID-19. A National Security Advisory Council was held on Monday....

Data suggests that vaccines remain effective against severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the Omicron variant, the European Medicine Agency (EMA) said on Tuesday. It adds that those with a booster dose are better protected. EMA also said hospitalisations linked to Omicron appeared to be lower than with previous variants, since "the risk is currently estimated to be between a third and half of the risk with the Delta variant".

German economy minister Robert Habeck, from the Greens, said on Tuesday that greater immigration will be essential to prevent labour shortages in the future, which could lead to "real productivity problems". "We have 300,000 job openings today and expect that to climb to a million," Habeck told reporters, according to Reuters. The number of people employed in Germany grew to almost 45 million in 2021, despite the pandemic.

In 2020, 13 member states produced nearly 25 percent of the EU's total electricity production with nuclear energy, according to new figures released on Tuesday by Eurostat. The largest producer was France, followed by Germany, Spain and Sweden. There were 109 nuclear reactors operating in the EU in 2020, but three reactors permanently shut down that year. Only France and Slovakia generate over half of their electricity in nuclear plants.

Nearly half of Russians predict a political and economic decline in their country this year, with little faith in the government's ability to improve the situation, according to an independent poll, The Moscow Times write. Less than 20 percent said they expected Russia's political and economic life to improve in 2022. More than half of the respondents expressed scepticism toward the Russian government's ability to improve the overall domestic situation.