Category: 3. Europe

On May 13-14, at the invitation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a state visit to Astana. Earlier, the heads of state highlighted the importance of the upcoming high-level talks in Astana for further strengthening bilateral…

On 26 May, the European Union signed the Protocol amending the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, marking a historic step towards a common pan-European definition of terrorist offences.   

The Protocol amends the definition of “terrorist…

The European Commission is seeking feedback on fisheries Multiannual Management Plans (MAPs) across the EU’s sea basins. The call for evidence is open for a four-week period on the Commission’s Have Your Say portal.

The Commission asks EU countries, the fishing sector,…

Relations between Blair and Starmer have been remote in recent months, according to a senior figure at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the ex-PM’s sprawling policy and strategy consultancy. Having given up having much influence on the Starmer operation, Blair now “wants to…

Value-added services are designed to enhance applicant convenience and are developed in “consultation with, and approved by, client governments,” added the company.

All nine EU governments that responded to Lighthouse Reports’ requests for comment said they issued sanctions against VFS…

“Russia’s largest nuclear arsenal is located in the High North, just a few kilometers from Norway,” he said, adding that Norway would continue to primarily rely on NATO for its security.

On March 2, the French president announced that Germany, Poland, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium,…

Sandoz, which operates Europe’s last major end-to-end antibiotics manufacturing chain at its Kundl plant in Austria, has warned that below-cost imports from China of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) used to produce amoxicillin are threatening the EU’s capacity to…

Budapest is seeking to reset strained ties with Brussels after years of confrontation under the ousted former leader Viktor Orbán.

Magyar, whose centrist movement swept to victory in Hungary’s election last month, is seeking to unlock billions in EU funds frozen over Budapest’s…