Category: Europe

Retired Nato general Petr Pavel has been elected as the new president of the Czech Republic, seeing off his populist challenger Andrej Babis. The 61-year-old took 57.6% of the vote, initial results released by the state statistics office showed. Mr Babis – who served as prime minister between 2017 and 2021 – conceded defeat in […]

The European Union’s top general said Friday that Russia is taking the war in Ukraine into a “different stage,” launching indiscriminate attacks against civilians and cities, as a reaction to recent decisions by NATO allies to send advanced armaments to Ukraine in support of its war effort. Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo, European […]

One of the key figures in the European Parliament corruption scandal will remain in jail for one more month, Belgium’s federal prosecutor announced on Thursday. Francesco Giorgi, a former parliamentary assistant and domestic partner of accused Greek MEP Eva Kaili, was arrested in mid-December as part of a probe into a cash-for-favour scheme involving a […]

Russia launched a fresh wave of missile strikes on Ukraine in the morning Thursday, killing at least one person, hours after an overnight drone attack, while heavy fighting continues unabated in the east, where Moscow’s forces have been increasing pressure on Ukrainian defenders. The new missile attacks came after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking just hours […]

Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of being behind a recent letter bombing campaign that targeted the prime minister and the Ukrainian embassy, the interior ministry said Wednesday. A 74-year-old Spanish citizen was arrested in Miranda de Ebro in northern Spain and the ministry said police were searching the man’s home. Nobody was killed […]

Türkiye postponed a trilateral mechanism meeting with Sweden and Finland on their NATO bid further denting the Nordic countries’ hopes of joining the Western defense alliance after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ankara’s decision came one day after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at Sweden for allowing the burning of the Quran outside Ankara’s Stockholm […]

The chances of the UK and EU changing their post-Brexit relationship are slim, a new report has found. Published on Tuesday, the report by UK In a Changing Europe (UKICE) said that despite Britain taking a significant economic hit from leaving the bloc and falling public support for Brexit, major changes in the UK-EU relationship […]

A British minister has said that 200 asylum-seeking children have gone missing after being placed in hotels run by the Home Office. The admission follows an investigation by The Observer on Saturday in which a whistle-blower from a Home Office hotel said that children were being abducted off the street and forced into cars. On […]

A “time-out” is needed in Finland and Sweden’s talks with Turkey about joining Nato, Helsinki’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said. A series of controversial protests in Sweden, including the burning of a Quran, have angered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in recent days. As Turkey is already a member of Nato, it can block […]

Russia and Estonia on Monday were expelling the ambassadors from each other’s countries in a tit-for-tat move, saying that their diplomatic missions will be headed by charges d’affaires as relations between the countries sank to a new low over Ukraine. In a show of solidarity with its Baltic neighbour, Latvia announced that it would also […]