Due to the effects of the coronavirus crisis, the European Commission has today proposed to give Rijeka (Croatia) and Galway (Ireland) the possibility to extend their year as 2020 European Capitals of Culture until 30 April 2021.
Yesterday, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, together with the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, and Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, were in Tunis. They were meeting with the Tunisian President, Kais Saied, the designated Head of Government, Hichem Mechichi, as well as the […]
German police have opened an internal investigation of a weekend incident caught on video in which two Duesseldorf police officers pinned a young man to the ground, one holding his arms behind him and the other holding his head with his knee, authorities said Monday. In the video of the Saturday evening incident, widely shared […]
French riot police are being deployed near Marseille to help enforce mask requirements as the country registers a spike in COVID-19 cases. Government spokesperson Gabriel Attal announced on Monday that 130 police officers are being sent to Marseille, a coastal city in south-eastern France. It comes after local authorities made face masks mandatory in all […]
Russia has summoned a Dutch diplomat to Moscow over alleged spying on Russia’s military attaché in the Netherlands. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that they had “strongly protested” to the discovery of “tracking equipment” in the service car of an embassy assistant. Moscow has instructed the Charge d’Affaires of the Netherlands, Dominique Bakker-Kühling, […]
The Commission adopted a proposal for the fishing opportunities for 2021 in the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. With the proposed fishing quota for certain fish stock, the Commission is thus delivering on the political commitments made in the ‘MedFish4ever’ and the Sofia Declarations to promote sustainable management of fish stocks in the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. […]
On Sunday 16 August, the largest rally in Belarusian modern history took place. Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets all across Belarus to participate in the Freedom March. These peaceful demonstrations had clear demands: the release of all unlawfully detained people, the prosecution of those responsible for police brutality, and holding of […]
The Italian government moved to make masks mandatory between 18:00 and 6:00 in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus after recording more than 600 cases in a single day. The country, which was the first in Europe to institute a lockdown, also closed nightclubs amid the uptick in cases. Vacationers in Rome coming […]
Belarus’ capital has seen hundreds of women take to the streets in the daytime last week, in a show of solidarity with the protest movement and the thousands detained amid the violent state crackdown. In several areas of Minsk, large groups of women — often dressed in white — have formed long human “chains of […]
The EU welcomes the announcement on the normalisation of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and acknowledges the constructive role played by the US in this respect. The EU has for many years promoted the development of relations between Israel and the countries of the region. Israel and the United Arab Emirates are both […]
