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The governing parties have submitted several new amendments to the anti-pedophile bill currently before parliament that some NGOs decried as a frontal attack on freedom of expression and children’s rights, following a Russian model. The amendments would ban the “promotion”...

G7 leaders on Friday (11 June) open a three-day summit aimed at helping to end the Covid-19 pandemic and forge a climate-centric economic recovery, after pledging to donate one billion vaccine doses for the world's poorest countries.

The possibility that Germany could emerge from September’s election with a Green chancellor is being eyed with caution at the European level. In an interview with EURACTIV Germany, former German environment minister, Jürgen Trittin, explained the Green approach to Europe....

Des dizaines de millions de produits défectueux liés à la protection contre la Covid-19 -masques, gels, tests - ont été saisis depuis plus d’un an dans l’UE grâce à une enquête de l’Office européen de lutte antifraude.

Die US-Handelsbeauftragte Katherine Tai sagte am Donnerstag (10. Juni), sie werde Präsident Joe Biden nächste Woche zu "intensiven Verhandlungen" nach Brüssel begleiten, um zu versuchen, die Handelsstreitigkeiten über Flugzeugsubventionen sowie Stahl und Aluminium beizulegen.

En réaction à la résolution du Parlement européen de jeudi (10 juin) critiquant son conflit d’intérêts, le Premier ministre tchèque Andrej Babiš (ANO) a déclaré qu’elle représente une continuation de l’intervention du Parlement européen dans les affaires internes de la République tchèque.

Soweto Weightlifting Club encourages its lifters to stay off the streets and to advance academically.

À la veille du G7 au Royaume-Uni, Emmanuel Macron a annoncé que la France allait opérer une « transformation profonde » de sa présence militaire au Sahel, et la fin de l’opération Barkhane.

“On June 10, the Russian Foreign Ministry invited North Macedonia’s Charge d’Affaires in Russia Olivera Čauševska-Dimovska to hand her a note declaring a North Macedonian embassy official persona non grata,” according to a statement released by the Russian foreign ministry....

Croatia’s football federation (HNS) explained in a statement the reason why the national football team players opted not to go down on one knee and bow before last Sunday’s friendly match with Belgium, but instead stood still to demonstrate their...

Le commissaire à la justice Didier Reynders appelle Varsovie à retirer une motion, en attente au Tribunal constitutionnel, visant à contrôler la constitutionnalité de certaines parties des traités de l’UE.

The European Commission has criticised multiple parts of Romania’s recovery and resilience plan, mainly because of unjustified costs or missing information about the projects, EURACTIV’s media partner HotNews reported. According to the report, the Commission’s experts and the government representatives discussed...

The agreement with the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office for the appointment of 10 delegated European prosecutors is still in force and the issue is not up for discussion, the EU’s new Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi was quoted as saying Thursday by...

The European Commission has asked Poland not to question the primacy of EU law over national legislation, Justice Commissioner  Didier Reynders wrote in a letter sent to Warsaw on Wednesday, calling on the government to withdraw a motion, pending before...

In reaction to Thursday’s  European Parliament resolution criticising his conflict of interests, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said that it represents a continuation of the European Parliament’s intervention in the internal affairs of the Czech Republic, even going as...

Online booking platform Booking.com is suspected for alleged tax evasion worth over €153 million, Italy’s financial police in Genoa announced on Thursday. According to the investigation, which began in 2018, the company issued invoices without VAT, applying the so-called “reverse...

Almost 80% of Swedes would have no objections against deploying armed forces to assist the police in defeating the rise in violent crime, a new poll by the SOM Institute, an independent research organisation at the University of Gothenburg, shows....

A report by Statistics Finland shows that the wealth gap in the country has been constantly and gradually increasing, with the richest 10% now owning 49.6% of net wealth. Back in 1988, the share was 36.6% and in 2009 43.9%....

Data protection commissioner Helen Dixon is carrying out an audit on four of Ireland’s leading political parties – Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party – over concerns on their use of data in the past, the...

US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed a wide ranging Atlantic Charter on Thursday ahead of the British-hosted G7 summit. The charter, which replaces a similar document agreed 80 years ago between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston...