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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the country will remove borders with Kosovo and the Adriatic port city of Durres will become a “de facto port of Kosovo”. His statement came after the joint regular annual meeting between the cabinets...

A retired professor of the Faculty of Political Science and former ambassador Ivo Viskovic said on Sunday (4 October) that after 5 October 2000, Serbia had chosen accession to the EU as its strategic priority, but was deadlocked in the...

For today’s 20th anniversary of the great demonstrations in Belgrade that were instrumental in the 2000 toppling of then-president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, the country will have much humbler celebrations than on earlier “round” numbers, with...

“When the business climate becomes even more competitive, the United States expects to strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries,” said US State Secretary Mike Pompeo after meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman....

“The European Union cannot be a caricature of the Soviet Union. They cannot criticise countries”, Bulgarian MEP Angel Djambazki (VMRO, ECR) told Nova TV in an interview on Sunday in reference to a critical resolution for Bulgaria, adopted by the...

As Romania recorded more than 2,000 infections for four days in a row until Saturday and 1,835 on Sunday because the number of tests almost halved, the number of COVID-19-related deaths passed the 5,000-threshold. On top of that, more than...

Doctors in Hungary are to receive a substantial wage hike as the country’s healthcare system is expected to be pressured by the increase in COVID-19 cases, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government agreed to the proposal put forward by...

While Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’ ruling ANO party won 10 out of 13 Czech regions in the regional elections that took place in the Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday (1-2 October), it did not obtain a sufficient majority to...

An important court verdict is expected this week for Greece’s democracy. The court will rule whether the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is a criminal organisation. The case was opened five years ago, the party is no longer in the parliament...

A new investment of Microsoft will be announced today, as part of #GrforGrowth strategic partnership programme between Greece and the software company. The investment of more than $1 billion will be presented in a special event in the famous Acropolis...

The Spanish capital Madrid on Saturday awoke to a partial lockdown which came into effect at 10pm on Friday, meaning its residents cannot leave the city limits except for essential trips and work, for which they need to show official...

As “cases in schools” are still “sustainable”, these will remain open for now, said Health Minister Roberto Speranza. This is despite the average number of daily COVID-19 cases having increased to about 2,500 in Italy last week. “We are talking...

Belgian police are investigating the possible hacking of an Irish MEP’s account after it transpired that a derogatory tweet about a former Green Party candidate had been sent from MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s Twitter profile. Flanagan’s account last week posted...

The mighty Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) announced on Thursday (1 October) that once the current contracts expire by the end of 2021, the FFIF will not negotiate with national unions. Instead, the bargaining on wages, working conditions and shifts...

An average of almost 2,000 new people per day tested positive for in Belgium over the past week, with a peak of more than 3,000 new cases on the same day last Wednesday, according to the latest figures by Sciensano...

MPs will debate today and tomorrow (5-6 October) the temporary re-authorisation of ‘bee-killer’ insecticide neonicotinoid for the beet crop industry, a key sector of the French economy which has been in crisis for several months. Neonicotinoids were banned in 2018....

Outside a synagogue in Hamburg, a man dressed in military apparel attacked a Jewish student wearing a yarmulke, hitting him on the head with a collapsible spade on Sunday afternoon (4 October). The man was quickly overpowered and arrested by...

An increasing number of Belarusians have been applying for international protection in Poland in 2020, according to data of the Office for Foreigners (UdsC). While about 40 Belarusian citizens had applied for international protection annually between 2017 and 2019, a...

On Monday (5 October), the European Parliament will discuss in plenary the Rule of Law in Bulgaria. It may look like an event important mostly for the Bulgarians, but in fact it has a lot of incidence on the EU, writes Radan Kanev

Ursula von der Leyen and Frans Timmermans have pledged to kick-start a Renovation Wave across Europe. This is a management challenge with three aspects that have to be met, write building industry CEOs.