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Finland and Estonia have started to share tax data online in real-time, making it the first automatic information exchange between national tax administrations, replacing the previous method of exchanging information through manually processed requests. The real-time data exchange is expected...

Austria has lifted its block on attempts by the EU to slap fresh sanctions on the Belarusian banking sector, apparently moving away from its previous position that sanctions would push Minsk closer to Russia. “Glad we found an agreement on...

Just a third of eligible French voters cast their ballots in regional elections on Sunday (20 June), according to an Ipsos/Sopra Steria estimate for France Télévisions, the lowest turnout for elections in France since 1958. In most regions, leaders from...

German Health Minister Jens Spahn has warned that fans choosing to travel to London for the final of the EURO 2020 tournament that they will have to quarantine for two weeks due to the increasing incidence of the more contagious...

Belgian police on Sunday (20 June) found the body of terror suspect Jürgen Conings, a fugitive soldier who went missing a month ago with a stash of weapons after threatening a famous virologist and his family. “The cause of death...

Striking the provision of European treaties that requires the bloc to strive for “an ever closer Union” and transforming the directly elected European Parliament into a representative body of national parliamentary delegates are some of the Hungarian government’s positions in...

Nach den heftigen Gewittern vom Sonntag beruhigt sich die Lage am Montag erstmal – jedoch nicht lange. Bereits am Nachmittag kommen die nächsten Unwetter.

Iran and world powers can still clinch a deal to revive their 2015 nuclear accord after the election victory of a hardline Iranian president but time is running out, the European Union's foreign policy chief said on Sunday (20 June).

Vádat emeltek egy szentesi férfi ellen, aki tavaly decemberben késsel rabolt ki egy helybeli pénzintézetet – tájékoztatta a Csongrád-Csanád Megyei Főügyészség szóvivője.

Szanka Ferenc közölte, a letartóztatásban lévő férfit felfegyverkezve elkövetett rablás bűntettével vádolják.

A férfinek nem volt munkaviszonya és megélhetést biztosító rendszeres jövedelme, a vádirat szerint ezért elhatározta, hogy rablásból jut pénzhez. Tavaly december 21-én délután lakóhelyén – hogy későbbi menekülését biztosítsa – több réteg ruházatot vett fel, kést, valamint egy hátizsákot is magához vett. Majd arcán maszkot és napszemüveget viselve, kapucniját fejére húzva megjelent egy helyi bankfiókban.

Az ügyféltérben egy nőhöz lépett, kést szorított a nyakához, és a hátizsákot a pultra dobva a készpénz átadását követelte a banki alkalmazottaktól. A hátizsákba mintegy ötszázezer forintot pakoltak, ez alatt a vádlott folyamatosan a sértett nyakához szorította a kést, és sürgette a pénz átadását, azzal fenyegetőzve, hogy ha ez nem történik meg, elvágja a nő torkát. Miután a bank alkalmazottai az ügyféltérbe visszatérve átadták a hátizsákot a vádlottnak, a férfi kevesellte a kapott összeget, és megismételte fenyegetéseit. A banki alkalmazottak ekkor közölték, hogy a páncélszekrényt időzár védi, és annak kinyitására várni kell, amit hallva a férfi a hátizsákot magához véve elmenekült.

A rendőrség korábbi közleménye szerint a 24 éves férfi ezután taxival Csongrádra utazott, majd egy főváros felé tartó vonatra szállt fel. A rendőrök – katonákkal közösen – Kecskeméten elfogták a vádlottat, és szinte hiánytalanul lefoglalták a bankból elvitt pénzt is.

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The EU's foreign policy chief said a fight among Lebanese leaders is at the heart of its government crisis and he urged them to set their feud aside and form a cabinet or risk a total financial crash and sanctions.

Bei Gesprächen über die Wiederbelebung des internationalen Atomabkommens mit dem Iran in Wien rückt eine Einigung nach EU-Angaben näher. Diese standen zuletzt in Frage, nachdem bei den iranischen Präsidentschaftswahlen der ultrakonservative Ebrahim Raisi gewann. „Wir sind näher an einer Einigung,...

The European Commission last week published an updated methodology to assess which gas infrastructure projects will be eligible to receive EU funding, triggering warnings by environmental groups and a senior member of the European Parliament.

Robert Schuman, a post-WW2 French politician who helped create the EU, is to be given the title "venerable" by the Roman Catholic church in recognition of "heroic virtues", in what constitutes the first step on the path to canonisation, the Vatican announced over the weekend. The church needs to attribute a "miracle" to Schuman for the next step - "beatification" - and a second miracle before he becomes a saint.

"We are closer to a deal, but we are not still there ... We have made progress on a number of technical issues," EU diplomat Enrique Mora said after chairing nuclear non-proliferation talks with Iran and world powers in Vienna Sunday. The "progress" came despite Iran's recent election of a hardline cleric, Ebrahim Raisi, as president. Israel said he was a threat to peace, but Russia and Turkey congratulated him.

Germany's liberal Free Democrats (FDP) will not join a coalition led by the ecologist Greens after parliamentary elections in September, the German Bild daily reported on Monday, citing party sources. The Greens are running about 8 points behind the conservatives and polling at some 20 percent. The FDP are the conservatives' preferred ruling partners, but the two parties are unlikely to win enough votes for a parliamentary majority.

The EU's new VAT regime will create rules fit for the digital age and benefit businesses and consumers, writes Gerassimos Thomas.

The European Commission will present in the second half of this year a wide-ranging review of its state aid rules to facilitate public funding to strategic areas, as member states await the first transfers of the EU's recovery funds.

Die gesamte Westbalkanregion sei "frustriert" von der EU: Einige Mitgliedsstaaten würden sich konsequent gegen eine Erweiterung der Union stellen und lediglich Lippenbekenntnisse abgeben, kritisierte Serbiens Ministerpräsidentin Ana Brnabić.

City officials in Munich plan to light the Allianz Arena in rainbow colours for Wednesday's (23 June) Euro 2020 match between Germany and Hungary to make a statement to Viktor Orbán's right-wing Hungarian government.

Lebanese leaders could face EU visa-bans and asset-freezes for obstructing the formation of a new government and implementing reforms, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said in Beirut Saturday. "We stand ready to assist, but if there is further obstruction to solutions to the current multi-dimensional crisis in the country, we will have to consider other courses of action ... including targeted sanctions," Borrell said after meeting president Michel Aoun.