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The Russian parliament is discussing banning films which include LGBTI love scenes from general release. "Whoever wants can have special access to such videos, as well as with pornography," Russian MP Vitaly Milonov said Monday. Its Human Rights Council is also in talks to add pro-LGBTI material to a new list of "toxic content" on the internet, along with "radical feminism", bestiality, violence, and neo-Nazi propaganda, Council-member Igor Ashmanov said.

Az eurót 370,43 forinton jegyezték hat órakor, magasabban a hétfő esti 370,25 forintnál. Hétfő késő este az euró új történelmi csúcsra, 370,84 forintra erősödött. (mti)

Az elmúlt hétvégén kétszeresére emelkedett azoknak az érdeklődőknek a száma, akik Nagyszombat megye oltóközpontjaiban vették fel a COVID-19 elleni védőoltást.

Russia has threatened to cut off gas to Moldova and the US has imposed new sanctions on a Russian gas pipeline, amid spiralling tension in eastern Europe.

Slovakia came 22nd in this year’s Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) published yearly by the European Commission, meaning its ranking did not change compared with 2020, EURACTIV Slovakia reported. The Commission concluded that Slovakia made only limited progress in digitalisation. The country profile...

A former TV reporter and pilots phone number appears in the leaked database of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected by the Israeli NSO Group’s clients, the Hungarian government, for Pegasus surveillance, Telex reported via Direkt36. After learning about investigative stories detailing...

Germans faced the stark warning Monday (22 November) that they would be either "vaccinated, cured or dead" from Covid by the end of winter, while Austria returned to a partial lockdown as Europe battles a fourth wave of the pandemic.

Czech scientist Peter Šeba from the Academic of Science has launched an online petition for mandatory vaccination. After a few days, it gained around 2,500 signatures and sparked a debate about this sensitive issue. So far, the Czech government has...

“​People who work or volunteer ​in ​the Holy Churches have neither the capability nor ​the ​power​ of a public good as the police do,”​ the Holy Synod announced on Monday as the number of COVID-19-related deaths has skyrocketed. The new...

Three candidates from the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), Austrian MEP Othmar Karras, Maltese MEP Roberta Metsola, Dutch MEP Esther de Lange have launched their bids to become the next president of the European Parliament. As part of a 2019 deal on the top EU jobs, Italian centre-left S&D MEP David Sassoli is expected to stand down on 17 January, and be replaced by a centre-right candidate.

The EU Commission has made a first move in the battle that could result in financial sanctions against Hungary and Poland over rule-of-law issues. However, this initial step has irritated those arguing for quicker action.

The spike in Covid-19 infections is prompting some EU governments to introduce lockdown measures and restrictions for the unvaccinated. Meanwhile, travel operators are calling for coordination and a common approach for booster doses and valid certificates.

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya says current EU sanctions against the Minsk regime have not been effective, and is demanding tougher restrictions.

The European Central Bank said most of the 112 commercial banks it supervises do not have concrete plans to start preparing for climate change.

A new study by Globsec Policy Institute, a Bratislava-based think-thank, shows that Serbia is the most susceptible to Russian and Chinese influence, followed by Hungary.

Sitting justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro down on the same bench as Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga or Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir might seem like a longshot, if not overkill - but shows just how desperate the Polish people have become.

Participants will discuss the most important foreign policy challenges for a new German government and Europe. What should Europe expect from German foreign policy under a new government – continuity or change?

Portugal is seventh in the EU for the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths and new daily infections per million inhabitants, according to the statistical website Our World in Data. Since last week, the epidemiological situation has worsened slightly, and the country...

President Sergio Mattarella praised the role of science in the fight against COVID-19 on Monday on the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year at the Sapienza University of Rome. “We are in a period of great changes; the society...

Finance Minister and Chair of the Social Democratic Party, Magdalena Andersson, has been given time until Wednesday morning to gather enough support in parliament to form a government and secure her place as the country’s first female prime minister. Andersson...