Month: October 2021

Latvia has declared a three-month state of emergency after a record surge in COVID-19 infections. Under the new rules, masks are mandatory in all public Read more

Three people have been killed and another seriously injured after they were hit by a train in southwestern France. Local officials said the victims were Read more

Alar Karis was sworn in as Estonia’s sixth President at an inauguration ceremony in Tallinn on Monday. His election to the position came as little Read more

The Vatican has sovereign immunity that protects it from being sued in local courts over sexual abuse cases, the European Court of Human Rights said Read more

The International Monetary Fund expressed “full confidence” in its managing director on Tuesday in response to allegations that World Bank staff were pressured to change Read more

France will ban the use of plastic packaging on around 30 fruit and vegetables from January 2022, the government has announced. The effort is part Read more

When Vladimir Putin indicated last week that Russia could be ready to ease Europe’s energy crisis, the markets breathed a sigh of relief. Prices for Read more

French politicians hit back at the UK and at their own government on Monday as a surge in the number of migrants trying to cross Read more

Calls multiplied on Monday in Italy for the ultra-right group Forza Nuova to be banned, after it was implicated in violent demonstrations against the COVID-19 Read more

The former European Commissioner Dacian Cioloș has been tasked with forming a new government in Romania. Cioloș — who served as Romanian Prime Minister from Read more

The Polish government has further sought to dampen the impact of last week’s bombshell court ruling, asserting the supremacy of the national constitution over EU Read more

Exhausted families spilling out of overcrowded planes, carrying their last worldly possessions. Children missing both their shoes. Grown men and women sobbing hysterically after losing Read more

The European Union’s top court has begun its long-awaited hearings looking at the bloc’s so-called rule of law mechanism. Last December, all 27 member states Read more

Alexei Navalny has claimed his prison status has been altered and that he is now on a terrorist watch list, but he is no longer Read more

Greece says it will increase the number of border guards on the country’s border with Turkey, over fears of increased migration from Afghanistan. An additional Read more