Category: Europe

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has given northern European countries an impetus to beef up their militaries. Norway is to increase the number of conscripted soldiers from 9,000 to 13,500, the Norwegian government announced on Tuesday. “We must have enough people with the right skills at the right time,” Defence Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said. “We […]

France’s top diplomat said Monday that Paris expects China to send “clear messages” to its close partner Russia over its war in Ukraine, after meetings with his counterpart in Beijing. “We expect China to send very clear messages to Russia,” Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne told a press conference in Beijing alongside his local counterpart Wang […]

The Greek government is currently struggling with a housing shortage in the country. Stricter rules for the so-called Golden Visa programme are now intended to provide a solution. The programme allows non-EU citizens to obtain a residence permit for at least five years for investment. The amount of money that must be invested has now […]

Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure have killed two people, one in the country’s western Lviv region, the other in an attack in the northeast, officials said. The attack in Lviv destroyed a building and sparked a fire, Governor Maksym Kozytskyi wrote on Telegram on Sunday, adding that rescue operations were under way. In the […]

Turkey’s main opposition party is closing in on victory in the main cities of Istanbul and Ankara, in high-stakes local elections. Istanbul’s opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the city in 2019, said that he was “very happy” so far. A year after Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured a third term as president, he had made […]

Over 300 lawyers on Sunday urged the Supreme Court (SC) to take notice of allegations of interference in the judiciary by the intelligence apparatus under Article 184(3) of the Constitution, adding that any government-led commission “would be bereft of necessary independence and powers” to probe the claims. Article 184(3) of the Constitution sets out the […]

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned of the “real” threat of conflict in Europe, saying that for the first time since the end of World War II the continent has entered a “pre-war era”. “War is no longer a concept from the past. It is real, and it started over two years ago. The […]

BUCHAREST: After 13 years of waiting, Bulgaria and Romania are to partially join the Europe’s vast Schengen area of free movement today (Sunday), opening up travel by air and sea without border checks. But land border controls will remain in place due to Austria’s opposition to the eastern European countries becoming full members of the […]

LONDON: British counterterrorism detectives are investigating after a journalist working for a Persian-language media organization was stabbed Friday in London amid fears he had been targeted because of his job, police said. Police said the man, in his 30s, was attacked and suffered an injury to his leg in the Friday afternoon incident in Wimbledon, […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers in a continuing reshuffle on Saturday, while Russia unleashed new attacks overnight. Zelenskyy dismissed top aide Serhiy Shefir from his post of first assistant, where he had served since 2019. The Ukrainian president also let go of three advisers and two presidential representatives overseeing […]