Greece: Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces stricter laws for sexual crimes
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced stricter penalties for sex offenders as part of a government response to a slew of…
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The first verdict in case of Syrian war – a former member of Bashar al-Assad’s services sentenced to imprisonment
A German court sentenced a former member of President Bashar al-Assad's security services to 4-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday…
Czech Republic to appeal to European Court of Justice over Poland’s coal mine
The Czech Republic will sue Poland over the expansion of the Turów brown coal mine located in the close proximity…
French president: West must help vaccinate Africa’s healthworkers
Last week the Munich Security Conference kicked off Friday as a “special edition” with world leaders attending the annual event…
Former secret police chief of North Macedonia, involved in a scandal of mass surveillance, escaped days before imprisonment
Echoing the disappearance in 2018 of his cousin, former PM Nikola Gruevski, North Macedonia's former secret police chief, Saso Mijalkov,…
The Evros land border will be monitored by cameras and radars able to see up to 15 kilometers
As Kathimerini reports, with the aim of monitoring illegal migration over the Evros land border, cameras and radars with the…
Spain aims to become Europe’s biggest multimedia ‘hub’
The Spanish government will publish in “the coming weeks” a detailed roadmap to position the country as Europe’s biggest multimedia…
Europe takes action in preparation for new variants of COVID-19
The European Commission is taking immediate action to prepare for the threat of new COVID-19 variants. The European Commission has…
The first carbon-neutral liner vessel will be launched in 2023 – Maersk
Shipping group Maersk said on Wednesday it would accelerate plans to decarbonise sea-borne container shipping by putting the world's first…
EU-Russia gap widening, foreign ministers’ talks reveal
As Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov on Monday, current relations between Russia and…