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Bulgaria's Covid-infection tally jumped by some 6,800 from Tuesday to Wednesday, a record increase, Reuters reports, while 124 people died from the virus in the same 24 hours. Some 7,300 infected people were currently in hospital, with 608 out of the country's 700 intensive-care beds occupied. "The only option left will [soon] be a full lockdown and a halt of economic life," interim health minister Stoicho Katsarov said.

Croatia would have more benefits than disadvantages from euro adoption, President Zoran Milanović was quoted as saying after he met with his Maltese counterpart, George Vella. “This is a country which has been inside for a long time, it has...

Goods traffic between Ireland and the EU has grown 36 percent since Brexit, a new report by Dublin port shows. Business with the UK on the other hand dropped by a fifth. Importers and exporters are bypassing the UK by using new ferry services opened since January. There are now 44 direct ferry routes between Ireland, France and the Benelux countries, up from seven before Brexit, Reuters reports.

Some 87 percent of EU nationals said they were in favour of replacing short-haul flights with train services, according to a poll by the European Investment Bank, while 69 percent backed new taxes on high-polluting products. But at the same time, 58 percent said they did not believe the upcoming COP26 climate summit would see their national leaders agree to drastically cut CO2 emissions by 2050.

Hackers offering services for hire to other criminals were Europe's biggest cybersecurity threat, according to Enisa, an EU agency, Wednesday. Criminals lured people, many of whom were glued to computers due to home-working, with Covid-scare stories in emails. They targeted health officials, looking for vaccine secrets. They sought payment in cryptocurrency and also 'cryptojacked' computers - secretly taking them over to use their 'data-mining' power to generate crypto-income, Enisa said.

World leaders and national negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Glasgow next month to discuss global cooperation in response to the climate change emergency. What outcome can be expected? Why does it matter?

Interest in vaccination against COVID-19 has increased significantly over the past week, amid discussions about making green passes mandatory for some activities, and overfilled hospitals. The number of doses administered in Romania has remained above 100,000 per day over the...

It is the latest episode in the long-running legal and political battle between the nationalist government led by the Law and Justice party (PiS) and EU institutions over Warsaw's highly-controversial judicial overhaul.

Leaked commission documents, dated earlier this month, outline draft migration proposals on Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. They also provide insights into bilateral moves by individual EU states.

The Basel III rules were initiated after the financial market crisis of 2008 in order to reduce the risk of another financial meltdown, but critics worry about risk posed by stranded fossil-fuel assets.

The designation perfectly fits into Israel's long-conceived strategy to besmirch Palestinian civil society voices under false allegations of terrorism and antisemitism, while pressuring any international actor that grants them a hearing, and actively demanding their defunding.

Representatives of the Czech government, employers, and trade unions have refused to impose any restrictions on unvaccinated workers, agreeing on Wednesday that it is impossible to effectively enforce such a measure. The priority for the upcoming weeks should be the...

The health ministry is suspending the planned admission of patients to hospitals to open additional beds for the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Intensive care units, in which over 600 patients are currently being treated, will have their capacity increased...

CEDR Call 2021 is open as of 28 September 2021 with two research programmes: Climate Change Resilience and Remote Condition Monitoring of Physical Road Assets. A public briefing session will be held on 09 November 2021 at 10:30 - 12:00 CET.

On Wednesday (27 October), Greek health officials reported 3,651 new coronavirus cases, a reduction from 4,165 the day before, and 63 deaths, a recent high. Half of the country is now at the “red” epidemiological level while vaccinations remain stagnant...

The European Union on Wednesday (27 October) said it was giving Moldova €60 million to help cope with a gas crisis after Russia's Gazprom hiked prices.

The government has a “clear conscience” after the Budget vote and is ready to continue governing or go to elections, depending on the president of the Republic’s decision, Prime Minister António Costa said on Wednesday evening. Costa spoke to journalists outside parliament...

Spain’s Constitutional Court declared on Wednesday (27 October) that the second state of alarm decreed by the Spanish government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is unconstitutional. Four of the court’s ten judges opposed the decision. The Spanish government decreed the second...

Assisted by the trade and industry ministries, Finnish and Swedish companies embark on an ambitious joint mission to conquer global markets. Behind the new strategy revealed in Stockholm on Tuesday is the realisation that Nordic companies are often too small...

Pandemic restrictions are unlikely to be reintroduced despite growing concerns over infection rates in Ireland, government ministers have indicated. At a Tuesday evening meeting, the Cabinet subcommittee on COVID-19 heard from health officials that the virus was moving in a...