Month: July 2021

A politician hoping to replace Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel late this year has apologised for committing plagiarism in a 2009 book. Armin Laschet, the CDU Read more

Once a bustling eastern Flemish town of around 1000 inhabitants, today Doel is home to less than two dozen people. Among them are Kevin and Read more

Bulgaria’s President has urged his country’s political parties to hold coalition talks to avoid another parliamentary election. A second vote in July failed to result Read more

It started as a “sausage war” over chilled meat exports — now it is threatening to escalate into a long-term confrontation between the United Kingdom Read more

The remains of a missing British hiker have been found in the Pyrenees, her family has confirmed. Esther Dingley was reported missing last November while Read more

Operations to shelter around 600 homeless people who had pitched tents in a chic central Paris square began on Friday afternoon. Léa Filoche, deputy mayor Read more

Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont has been defeated in a bid to stop the loss of his European parliamentary immunity. MEP Puigdemont was in March Read more

A defendant has requested the recusal of top magistrates at The Hague-based court tasked with trying war crimes committed during the Kosovo war, accusing them Read more

At least four people have been killed in southern Turkey as forest fires rage near tourist coastal regions for a third day. Firefighters were still Read more

The Belarusian Association of Journalists on Thursday called on authorities in Belarus to transfer a jailed journalist to a civilian hospital so he could get Read more

Portugal is set to ease COVID-19 pandemic restrictions ahead of a forecast of 70% of people being fully vaccinated by the end of this summer, Read more

Two-thirds of workers want teleworking to continue once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, according to a new survey. The poll, carried out in 29 countries Read more

A German federal court has criticised Facebook for how it moderates content and handles “hate speech”. The court said the social network cannot delete posts Read more

Malta’s government must “bear responsibility” for the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, an independent inquiry has found. The probe said that Maltese authorities had Read more

For the 148,000 British expatriates living in France, the UK’s decision to lift its quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated travellers from all EU countries except Read more