Category: Europe

ROME: Italy’s culture minister quit on Friday after controversy over a consultancy role for his former mistress that had become an embarrassment for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government. Gennaro Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, has faced a media storm since self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur Maria Rosaria Boccia said last month she had been nominated “adviser to […]

According to BBC report: Tens of thousands of people are protesting across France against the nomination of right-wing Michel Barnier as the new prime minister, after an inconclusive election in which the left won the largest number of seats. Demonstrations are underway in cities including Paris, Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Starsbourg. The protests were called […]

Russian strikes on the Ukrainian central city of Pavlograd on Friday killed one person and wounded more than 60 others, including several children, officials said. Russia has stepped up aerial strikes on Ukraine since Kyiv launched an unprecedented cross-border offensive into Russia’s Kursk region last month. Five Iskander ballistic missiles were fired from Russian territory […]

BERLIN: According to German Electronic Media reports: Germany’s migration policy has sparked intense debate within the government. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) recently emphasized that all migration proposals must align with the Basic Law, EU law, and international regulations. However, he now seems to be considering legal avenues for turning back refugees at the borders — […]

PARIS (Reuters): French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as his new prime minister on Thursday, after weeks of drawn out talks following an inconclusive snap election. Barnier, aged 73, led the EU’s talks with Britain over its exit from the bloc from 2016-2021. Prior to that, the conservative […]

VLADIVOSTOK: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was ready for talks with Ukraine, after having previously rebuffed the idea of negotiations while Kyiv’s offensive into the Kursk region was ongoing. Putin said a preliminary agreement reached between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in the first weeks of the war at talks in Istanbul, which […]

COLOGNE: The unprecedented success of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Sept. 1 elections in two German states has triggered concerns among some of the millions of Turks residing in the country, who fear a surge in xenophobia. In the Thuringia state parliamentary elections, the AfD surged by 9.4 percentage points compared […]

LONDON: BBC reports: At least 12 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the French coast in the English Channel. Ten of those who died were female, including a pregnant woman, and six were minors, officials say. More than 50 people have been rescued, according to the French coastguard, with many receiving […]

Russian forces launched a missile attack on Poltava on Tuesday, Sept. 3, striking the city with two ballistic missiles just minutes after an air raid alert was issued. “We know about 49 dead and 219 injured people. Search teams continue to dismantle the rubble at the site,” Poltava Governor Philip Pronin said on Telegram, in […]

Athens, September 3, 2024 — Greece has significantly increased the cost for non-EU citizens to obtain residency through real estate investment, with new rules taking effect on September 1. The minimum investment for a “Golden Visa” in Athens, Thessaloniki, and larger islands has jumped from €250,000 to €800,000, while in other regions, it has doubled […]