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Prime minister-designate Nicolae Ciuca is struggling to find support for his cabinet, despite offering a truce to political rivals. Leaders of the centre-right PNL, including Ciuca, met representatives of the socialist party PSD on Sunday. Still, the two parties did...

Bulgaria’s tourism and restaurant industry has threatened to start national protests if the government does not amend the rules for issuing a Green pass so that COVID-19 antibody tests can be legally recognised for getting the certificate. “If our demands...

Slovenia plans to improve its dismal vaccination rate by providing incentives for general practitioners who actively encourage vaccination. General practitioners and their teams will be eligible for bonuses if at least 45% of their registered patients aged over 50 have...

COVID-19 vaccinations will now be available to those over 12 and boosters will be given to the over 60s, according to an Albanian government announcement on Friday (25 October). Children over 12 with health problems will be given the vaccine...

Afghanistan is on the edge of falling apart Sweden and Pakistan have warned, in a situation that was pregnant with migratory and security risks for Europe. "The country is on the brink of collapse and that collapse is coming faster than we thought," Swedish development minister Per Olsson Fridh told Reuters in Dubai. "The watch on this bomb is already clicking," Pakistani information minister Fawad Chaudhry also said.

German police stopped some 50 far-right vigilantes armed with pepper spray, a machete, and batons near the town of Guben, on the Polish-German border, Sunday, after the group had gone there to keep out migrants coming in via Belarus and Poland, Reuters reports. Germany recently put 800 extra police on its Polish border, while saying 6,126 people had already entered Germany using that route so far this year.

Croatia's small, right-wing, and anti-EU Hrvatski Suverenisti party began a two-week campaign Sunday to collect the 370,000 signatures it would need in a petition to try to force a referendum on whether to adopt the euro. "The decision on such an important issue must be taken by the citizens," Marijan Pavliček, an MP behind the project, told Reuters. Zagreb hopes to adopt the joint currency in early 2023.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has accused the EU and US of trying to help unseat him in next year's elections. "What matters is not what they in Brussels, in Washington, and in the media which is directed from abroad, want. It will be Hungarians deciding," he told a rally Saturday. "Brussels speaks to us and treats us, along with the Poles, as if we were an enemy," he added.

Ein vermeintlich schöner Ausflug am Mount Yari in Japan endet beinahe in einem Drama. Wegen eines Erdbebens stürzen losgelöste Steine auf eine Gruppe von Bergsteigern herab.

Protesters who trapped 'OSCE' international monitors in a hotel in Russia-occupied Donetsk in east Ukraine called off their week-long blockade citing coronavirus restrictions Saturday, Reuters reports. "The mission is acting based on a consensus decision by all 57 OSCE participating states and we believe that it is a key contribution to security where it operates," the Swedish foreign ministry told EUobserver, in Sweden's role as the current OSCE chairman.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ordered out the ambassadors of his top Nato allies and Western investors, in what his opponents called a reckless political stunt.

Banks based in the EU have earned a reported €401m from deforestation, out of more than €30bn worth of deals with companies linked to logging. Deal-making was dominated by big banks from the Netherlands, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy.

A new research has revealed dozens of 'revolving-door' cases at some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the EU and their lobby groups – triggering calls for stricter ethical rules, similar to those of tobacco industry.

Chinas Staats- und Parteichef Xi Jinping hat die Anerkennung der kommunistischen Volksrepublik durch die Vereinten Nationen vor 50 Jahren als «Sieg für das chinesische Volk» gefeiert.

In the European Parliament, the home affairs committee will start to work on new migration laws: providing the legal framework for the new migration policy in the EU.

Sweden and Finland are no longer embarrassed to cooperate with Nato countries, says the Nordic Council president. With Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg addressing the November meeting, it has gone from being not discussed at all - to the main topic.

Former UK ambassador to Mali and Niger, who also served in Kabul, reflects on the implications of the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan for EU policy in the Sahel.

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Mint ismeretes, a szlovák parlament Gyimesi György javaslatára törvénybe iktatta az eddigi lehetőséget, azaz a szlovák nyelv idegen nyelvként való oktatását a nemzetiségi iskolákban. Szakmai szempontból azonban nem olyan egyszerűek a dolgok, ahogy azt egyes politikusok látják.

Zayn Ali Salman begeistert die Londoner Fussballwelt seit seinem vierten Lebensjahr. Salman wird bereits «der kleine Messi» genannt. Warum das so ist, zeigen Videoaufnahmen vom Rasen.