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Following reports that Serbia was not invited to the Summit for Democracy, a virtual conference that US President Joe Biden will host, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Sunday that “everyone has a right to evaluate other democracies as they see...

A concession agreement has been signed to develop and commercially use the Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal in the northern Adriatic Port of Rijeka, estimated at 20 billion kuna (€2.7 billion), with the concession fee fixed at €2 million annually...

Gas flows via the 'Yamal-Europe' pipeline from Russia, via Poland, to Germany stopped again on Saturday, following a previous, temporary, stoppage last weekend, German pipeline operator Gascade said. The previous stoppage caused prices to jump 23 percent on gas futures markets. Russia denies accusations it is using gas cuts to force Germany to let it run its new pipeline, Nord Stream 2, as a monopoly in violation of EU laws.

According to an investigation conducted by Nova TV, a Bulgarian MP candidate from the nationalist NFSB party has been involved in a scheme issuing vaccination certificates to unvaccinated people. MP candidates have immunity from prosecution, but the chief prosecutor is expected to ask...

The EU has warned Britain it could trigger a trade war if it suspended a Brexit-customs deal on Northern Ireland. "There is a danger" the EU would suspend the whole Brexit withdrawal deal if the UK went ahead, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney said Sunday, echoing warnings by EU commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič Friday. Masked men burned a bus in Northern Ireland Sunday amid a recent flare-up in sectarian tension.

The EU has "condemned" the attempted assassination of Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi using an exploding drone which struck his home Saturday. "The perpetrators of this attempted attack must be held accountable. Any violence is unacceptable and must not be allowed to undermine the democratic process," the EU foreign-service chief Josep Borrell said Sunday. "Calm, restraint, and dialogue are essential in the post-election period," Borrell also said.

Around 3,000 Georgian protesters held a rally in support of jailed former president Mikheil Saakashvili on Saturday (6 November) outside the prison where he says he is on hunger strike.

Czech president Miloš Zeman has urged prime minister Andrej Babiš to resign and for opposition leader Petr Fiala to form a ruling coalition after Babiš's party lost recent elections. "I think there will be no problem there, because Andrej Babiš, who I spoke to on the phone a little while ago, is not interested in becoming prime minister," Zeman said Friday in his first remarks after being hospitalised last month.

Thousands of protesters marched against a recent anti-abortion law in several Polish cities on Saturday following the death of a woman, Izabella, after doctors declined to intervene in her pregnancy complications. Leading opposition politicians Szymon Hołownia, Rafał Trzaskowski, and Donald Tusk joined the Warsaw rally. But government propaganda outlet, TVP, attacked them for playing "political games" with "tragedy". Tusk was a "supporter of killing unborn children" TVP said.

Spanish police are looking for 12 people who ran away from an Air Arabia Maroc flight from Casablanca to Istanbul, which landed in Mallorca Saturday after a passenger fell seriously ill. "These people have arrived, not by sea, but in an illegal way and therefore at the very least ... they will be returned to their country of origin," Spanish regional government spokeswoman Aina Calva said on the "unprecedented" event.

France's agriculture ministry has put the country on high-alert over growing cases of bird flu, potentially fatal to humans, around Europe. "Since the beginning of August, 130 bird flu cases or clusters have been detected in wild animals or on farms in Europe," it said. "Reinforced prevention measures will therefore be implemented to protect poultry farms," it added, following similar Dutch restrictions last week on keeping poultry birds indoors.

A group of 450 banks and insurers, led by Mark Carney, have committed €112 trillion to tackle climate change between now and 2050 - but not all green projects are bankable raising questions about the for-investor profit model.

Neglect in Bulgarian state psychiatric hospitals and social care homes have led to degrading and inhumane conditions, says a report. It is the first time a public statement condemning such abuse has been made among the Council's 47 member states.

German security services believe that a man found dead in a street outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin last month was an undercover agent of Russia's FSB intelligence service, Der Spiegel reported on Friday (5 November).

The EU should not seek Beijing's permission to strike trade deals in the Indo-Pacific region. China itself signed a trade agreement with Taiwan in 2010.

Facebook whistleblower is expected to meet with MEPs and representatives of the French senate this week. Meanwhile, eyes turn again to the Glasgow UN climate summit as pressure is mounting for negotiators to finish the 2015 Paris Agreement rulebook.

Prof. Andrzej Przyłębski, the husband of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal Julia Przyłębska, is leaving his post as Poland’s ambassador to Berlin after five years in post. According to “Gazeta Wyborcza” Przyłębski intends to devote himself to an academic career....

The Spanish police have arrested 12 people and are searching for 12 others who fled a plane after it made an emergency landing at Palma airport on the Balearic island of Mallorca. The Air Arabia flight from the Moroccan city...

Max Verstappen, a Red Bull holland versenyzője nyerte a vasárnapi Forma-1-es Mexikói Nagydíjat, így már 19 pont az előnye az összetett élén a címvédő és hétszeres világbajnok Lewis Hamiltonnal, a Mercedes brit pilótájával szemben.

Mohegan Gaming announced on Friday its decision to withdraw from its plan to build a casino in Greece and focus its attention on the construction of a similar project in South Korea. In September, Mohegan announced the transfer of its...