Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was acquitted of judicial corruption charges on Thursday evening in a trial in Tuscany, his lawyers said. Various Italian media Read more
Natural gas prices have surged in Europe, fuelling a crisis that is already impacting companies and consumers’ bills. According to financial operator ICE, the price Read more
More European citizens are being pushed into energy poverty as the electricity and gas price crisis worsens, according to one energy poverty organisation. Stefan Goemaere Read more
French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday pledged a €100 check to all French people earning less than €2,000 a month to help them cope Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed ten ambassadors over their call for the release of a jailed philanthropist. Erdoğan said that their demands were Read more
The world’s largest triceratops skeleton has sold for €6.6 million at a Paris auction house. The sale to a private American collector on Thursday is Read more
EU leaders have asked Poland to abide by the same rules and legal principles as any of the other members of the European Union do. Read more
Turkish basketball player Enes Kanter has prompted a backlash in China for calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “brutal dictator”. The NBA player posted two Read more
Coronavirus infections and deaths in Ukraine surged to all-time highs on Thursday amid a laggard pace of vaccination, with overall inoculations among the lowest in Read more
A petrol station worker in Germany has been assaulted by a man who refused to wear a mask, police said. The attendant was punched and Read more
Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Liberals (FDP) announced on Thursday that they aim to finish coalition negotiations by the end of November and for Read more
About 500 protesters rallied in the Greek capital on Thursday to protest against staff shortages and compulsory coronavirus vaccinations. The demonstration moved past Greece’s parliament Read more
Romania’s caretaker defence minister Nicolae Ciuca has been nominated to try and form a new government. Ciuca was named as the latest prime minister-designate by Read more
British police announced on Thursday that they have charged a 25-year-old man with the murder of lawmaker Sir David Amess and preparation of terrorist acts. Read more
Lithuania’s largest news outlets will remove public comments from their websites to combat COVID-19 misinformation. The organisations announced on Wednesday that viewers would not be Read more
A quarter of a million French homes were without electricity on Thursday and trains were halted from Normandy to the Paris region after powerful winds Read more
Russia hosted talks on Afghanistan on Wednesday involving senior representatives of the Taliban and neighbouring nations, a round of diplomacy that underlined Moscow’s clout in Read more
A Slovakian lawmaker has faced backlash after sharing an image on Facebook of the president’s daughter. Tomáš Taraba — a populist and independent MP — Read more
Governments should compensate energy-intensive industries, according to Europe’s industrial energy consumer union. Peter Claes, President of the IFIEC (International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers) Europe Read more
Romanian police have launched a criminal investigation into a false claim that a COVID-19 hospital is empty. A misleading Facebook video had suggested that there Read more
The row between Brussels and Warsaw over EU law primacy, which Ursula von der Leyen has described as a “direct challenge to the unity of Read more
A long-awaited trial for gay rights in Greece opened on Wednesday three years after the death of LGBTQ movement icon Zacharias Kostopoulos. Kostopoulos died on Read more
The European Commission’s president told member states that they are “too reliant on gas” amid an ongoing energy crisis that has seen gas prices soar Read more
European police have arrested eleven people in a major international operation against suspected mafia groups and tax evasion. Officers in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria conducted Read more
Russia’s President on Wednesday ordered workers to stay home to curb soaring COVID-19 fatalities as the daily death toll reached yet another record high. The Read more
Germany has proposed introducing joint border patrols with Poland to help combat a rise in illegal migration from Belarus. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has Read more
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been awarded with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s highest tribute to human rights Read more
Romanian MPs have failed to support a minority government led by Prime Minister-designate Dacian Cioloș. Cioloș’ proposal fell well short of the 234 votes it Read more
Queen Elizabeth II has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for a few days and has cancelled a trip to Northern Ireland, Buckingham Palace said Read more
Bulgaria launched on Tuesday its COVID-19 “Green Certificate” as a mandatory requirement for access to restaurants, theatres, cinemas, concert halls, gyms, clubs and shopping malls Read more
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