Category: 3. Europe

EPPO is pursuing dozens of cases in which Greek citizens received EU agricultural funds for pastureland they did not own or had not leased, or for agricultural work they never did, depriving real farmers of the cash they deserved. The multi-year, multimillion-euro scam was the subject of a

The French bill includes several safeguards to prevent such outcomes. To be eligible, patients must be over 18 and either French nationals or permanent residents. They must also have a “serious and incurable” illness that is both life-threatening and has reached an “advanced” or…

A large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway last week has been refloated.

Johan Helberg, who owns the house the ship nearly crashed into, said he “wouldn’t have traded this experience for anything” as he watched it being removed from his property.

“Get a ship in…

French MPs have voted to allow some people in the last stages of a terminal illness the right to assisted dying.

The National Assembly approved the bill, which is backed by President Emmanuel Macron, by 305 votes to 199. It will now go to the upper house, the Senate, before a second reading in…

The U.S. Department of State recently issued a travel advisory urging residents to “exercise increased caution” when traveling to Italy due to terrorism.

The level-two advisory, released on May 23, claims “there is a risk of terrorist…

So, in a bid to salvage what’s left of the €1.6 trillion transatlantic trade relationship, the EU is placing its bet on modest progress. If TTIP wasn’t possible when negotiators were more or less pulling in the same direction 10 years ago, it’s even less viable now.

“TTIP was…

Sales of new Tesla electric cars are sliding across Europe, data suggests, amid a political backlash against its billionaire chief executive, Elon Musk.

The figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) showed…