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Csütörtök reggel a Nemzeti Bűnüldöző Ügynökésg (NAKA) őrizetbe vette Vladimír Pčolinskýt, a Szlovák Információs Szolgálat (SIS) elnökét. Pčolinský nevét korrupciós ügyekkel hozták összefüggésbe.

Catalonia's regional government has issued an ultimatum to the central Spanish government in Madrid demanding it approve the AstraZeneca vaccine for people over the age of 55, warning that “either they act or we will act,” EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Activists from environmental pressure group Greenpeace made mockery of the European Central Bank's (ECB) security by paragliding onto the top of its tower in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday to hang up two yellow-and-black banners which said "Stop Funding Climate Killers" and "Act on climate now". The stunt was designed to highlight ECB bond-sales to CO2-polluting industries, such as gas and oil firms, which go against the EU's stated climate-change goals.

Während die Jungen so schnell wie möglich wieder offene Beizen wollen, tritt die ältere Generation lieber zuerst auf die Bremse. Ausserdem spricht eine Feminstin über die Schläge eines Polizisten an der Frauendemo. Jetzt auf Blick TV.

Ten years ago, Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster shook the belief in safe nuclear power to its core. For Germany, it marked a historic turning point for environmentalism, Deutsche Welle writes. Three days after the disaster, a subdued chancellor Angela Merkel, first a supporter of nuclear energy, announced that Germany would be suspending its recently approved extension of the operating lives of nuclear power plants following the "unimaginable catastrophe" in Japan.

Deux membres du groupe consultatif LGBT du gouvernement britannique ont démissionné après avoir accusé les ministres de ne pas être sérieux en matière de législation sur l'égalité et d'avoir créé un "environnement hostile" pour les personnes LGBT.

Dans un e-mail à destination des annonceurs français et espagnols la semaine dernière, Google a annoncé augmenter les tarifs de la publicité sur sa plateforme de 3% à partir de mai, pour répercuter la taxe dit "GAFA".

Der Schienenfahrzeughersteller Stadler Rail hat im Jahr 2020 trotz der Coronakrise den Reingewinn gesteigert. Dies vor allem dank einem starken zweiten Halbjahr. Der Umsatz ging allerdings zurück.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has said Europe's ambassador to Cuba, Alberto Navarro, had acted wrongly in attacking the US in an open letter on Cuba sanctions, but declined to say if he would sack him, as demanded by some MEPs. "It's evident that mistakes were made, but we need to evaluate them on their own terms," Borrell said Wednesday, after calling Navarro back to Brussels to explain himself.

A Szlovák Hidrometeorológiai Intézet (SHMÚ) előrejelzése szerint csütörtökön túlnyomóan derűs lesz felettünk az ég, a nyugati régiókban azonban fokozatosan beborulhat.

Air Serbia, en collaboration avec l'Association internationale du transport aérien (IATA), va commencer à tester le passeport numérique IATA, une nouvelle application mobile.

US President Joe Biden's top aides will hold their first talks with China next week in Alaska, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowing to seek "tangible" action on concerns with the nation he calls the top threat.

The symbolic move is an attempt to buttress against right-wing governments' increased scapegoating of LGBTI people, particularly in Poland and Hungary.

EU states have exported 24.7 million doses of vaccines to 31 countries - almost half the number delivered to member states, leaked figures show.

Der scharfe Einbruch der Werbeeinnahmen im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie hat der TX Group im Gesamtjahr 2020 einen markanten Umsatzeinbruch und rote Zahlen beschert.

The EU Commission wants to add "grave violations of international humanitarian law" as a reason to impose EU sanctions, in an idea floated in a press conference on Ethiopia.

Efforts to shut down government-critical media go beyond Hungary and Poland, but current EU law means there is little the European Commission can do about it.

Libya's parliament on Wednesday approved a government of national unity headed by prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Deutsche Welle reports. It is part of a UN-backed plan to lead the conflict-ravaged country through elections by the end of the year. The government will replace the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), which was in charge of western Libya, as well as the competing eastern administration linked to warlord Khalifa Haftar.

A court in Saudi Arabia has denied an appeal by Loujain al-Hathloul, one of the kingdom's most prominent activists that would have allowed her to travel freely, weeks after her release from prison. "The international community should be outraged at this judgment," her sister Lina al-Hathloul said. "The confirmation of the sentence of my sister Loujain is yet another confirmation of the abuse of power of the Saudi authorities."

The European Parliament president David Sassoli, the European Commission chief Usula von der Leyen, and Portugal prime minister António Costa on Wednesday signed a joint declaration on the Conference on the Future of Europe. An executive board, equally representing the three institutions, with national parliaments as observers, will soon be constituted - paving the way to launching a series of debates with citizens about reforms to the EU.