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Le groupe de la Gauche européenne a demandé au chef de la diplomatie de l'UE, Josep Borrell, d'intervenir dans le cas de l'eurodéputé grec Stelios Kouloglou, qui s'est vu refuser un visa pour se rendre aux États-Unis.

"Work is already underway for ... disconnection of Russia from the Swift banking system, sanctions on the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 [to Germany]," if it invades Ukraine, Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkēvičs said in The Guardian Tuesday. "If [Russian president] Vladimir Putin wants to see gas flow through that pipeline, he may not want to take the risk of invading Ukraine," US national-security adviser Jake Sullivan told Reuters.

Monténégro : un gouvernement sur la sellette, que personne ne peut faire tomber
Justice : le Monténégro vote une réforme décisive et contestée du Parquet
Monténégro : le nouveau gouvernement et le spectre du népotisme
Monténégro : le ministre de l'Environnement en plein conflit d'intérêts
Monténégro : « le régime Vučić essaie de faire tomber le gouvernement »
Revue de presse • cohabitation musclée au Monténégro
Monténégro : au test des municipales partielles, nouvel échec du DPS

/ Monténégro, Politique intérieure, Monitor (Monténégro), Après Milo

Monténégro : un gouvernement sur la sellette, que personne ne peut faire tomber
Justice : le Monténégro vote une réforme décisive et contestée du Parquet
Monténégro : le nouveau gouvernement et le spectre du népotisme
Monténégro : le ministre de l'Environnement en plein conflit d'intérêts
Monténégro : « le régime Vučić essaie de faire tomber le gouvernement »
Revue de presse • cohabitation musclée au Monténégro
Monténégro : au test des municipales partielles, nouvel échec du DPS

/ Monténégro, Politique intérieure, Monitor (Monténégro), Après Milo

The National Assembly of the Serb entity, Republika Srpska (NSRS), will discuss the return of entity competencies transferred to the state level on Friday at noon, the Assembly has announced. According to the announcement, the NSRS Board adopted the Proposal...

The majority of Europe's population living in urban areas is exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution, said the European Environment Agency on Tuesday. Over 90 percent of urban population is exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone above those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The European Commission has launched a revision of EU air quality standards to align them to WHO recommendations.

The UK suffered a record rise in the number of deaths caused by alcohol misuse in 2020, Reuters reports. Public health officials said the rise was linked to the wider social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, some 8,974 people died of alcohol-specific causes, 18.6 percent more than in 2019 and the largest increase since records began in 2001, the Office for National Statistics said.

The European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said on Tuesday that evidence suggest that different vaccines against Covid-19 can be mixed and matched for both initial courses and boosters. "[This approach] may offer flexibility in terms of vaccination options, particularly to reduce the impact on the vaccine rollout should a vaccine not be available for any reason," the EU agencies said in a statement.

Slovak MEP Michal Wiezik from the Progresívne Slovensko party has joined the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, leaving the centre-right European People's Party, Renew announced on Tuesday. Wiezik has been an MEP since 2019 and worked on environmental issues. With his addition Renew Europe, which is the third-largest faction in the parliament, grows to 101 MEPs from 23 member states.

Die USA haben Russland für den Fall eines Angriffs auf die Ukraine mit Maßnahmen gegen die deutsch-russische Ostseepipeline Nord Stream 2 gedroht.

The number of COVID-19 PCR tests carried out in Albania has fallen to a 13-month low, with just 13,781 tests carried out over the last seven days. This is an average of just 1968 tests a day, as reported by...

A suspected member of the team that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Khalid Alotaibi, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Tuesday, sources told Reuters. France acted on a warrant issued by Turkey. French radio RTL said the person arrested was a former Royal Guard of Saudi Arabia who is believed to have been involved in the Kashoggi killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The European Commission is set to propose new legislation requiring companies to detect, report and remove child sexual abuse content. The rules come amid other moves by the EU's police agency Europol to develop AI targeting encryption.

Mandatory vaccination has become a hot topic in the EU, but the European branch of the World Health Organization has warned that it should be "an absolute last resort". Children, meanwhile, account for the highest infection-rates across the continent.

EU ministers failed to agree on a revised set of a new Code of Conduct for tax rules.

EU finance ministers agreed on a new set of rules for value-added tax, opening the door to lower taxes for environmentally-friendly products.

Central and eastern European countries are diverse - but an increasing mistrust in government and a quick spread of conspiracy theories seem to be a common thread between them.

Lacking any monetary policy instruments and fiscal discipline, the economy in the north of Cyprus is suffering the consequences of the recent unorthodox and controversial monetary policy decisions made in Turkey.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić offered, through the American lobbyist and former ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, to help remove the Serb member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Milorad Dodik, the daily Vijesti reported on Tuesday. According to the daily,...

A deep-dive into the new German coalition government's thinking on Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and the 'ever-closer' federal state of the EU itself.