Germans have for the first time bought more properties in Spain than Britons, after Brexit imposed obstacles on buyers from the UK.more

Germany's capital Berlin will from Monday tighten the screws on unvaccinated people by denying them access to indoor dining, bars, gyms and hairdressers in an effort to contain a coronavirus resurgence.more

Most of those arrested who help migrants to cross from Belarus via Poland to other EU countries live in Germany. This is according to an internal, confidential European Commission document accessed by the daily "Welt".more

The Covid-19 "two-speed" pass in Italy is one of the ideas aimed at "saving" Christmas due to the predicted peak of coronavirus infections at the end of the year. Only vaccinated people would have access to all sites.more

One of Blue Origin's newest astronauts, 49-year-old Glen de Vries, survived a ride to space in October alongside actor William Shatner. But less than a month later, he was killed in a small plane crash on Thursday in New Jersey.more

The Netherlands will return to a partial lockdown from Saturday after the government ordered restaurants and shops to close early and barred spectators from major sporting events in an effort to contain a rapid surge in COVID-19 cases.more

EU authorities have pursued an energy policy in recent years that has increased Europe's dependence on natural gas from Russia, and now we will pay the price, according to Spanish media.more

Due to the slowdown in production at car factories, used cars have started to become more expensive. Cars less than a year old already cost more than their new counterparts - writes today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

Austria, where the number of Covid-19 cases has been rising sharply in recent weeks, is planning to introduce a quarantine for unvaccinated people. Yesterday, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg presented a timetable for action, and final decisions on the matter will be made on Sunday, the Vienna Online portal reports today. In front of hospitals, queues of people willing to be vaccinated are liningmore

A family court in Milan has granted the mother of a 12-year-old the right to vaccinate him against Covid-19 despite the father's disagreement. This is another case in Italy where a parental dispute over vaccination or a child's conflict with them over it had to be settled in court.more

More than 100 women have taken part in a protest in Rotterdam calling for the government to speed up compensation for families caught up in the childcare benefits scandal.more

At yesterday's meeting of the UN Security Council, its European members (except Russia) and the US condemned Belarus. They stigmatised it in connection with the crisis on the Polish border for its instrumental treatment of human beings leading to the 'destabilisation of the EU's external border'.more

The Dutch government on Thursday was considering whether to impose Western Europe's first partial lockdown since the summer, as new coronavirus cases jumped to the highest level since the start of the pandemic.more

The United States has warned its allies in Europe that Russia may well be planning an invasion of neighboring Ukraine as Moscow amasses forces on its western border, according to a report published Thursday.more

The European Commission said the EU would seek to blacklist airlines carrying migrants to Belarus who later try to cross the EU border and would coordinate with the US on planned sanctions against Minsk.more

The district attorney probing the “Rust” film set shooting says she knows who loaded the gun Alec Baldwin used to accidentally shoot dead cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.more

The European Parliament has approved a resolution condemning Poland's near-total ban on abortion. In October 2020, Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled women can terminate their pregnancies only in cases of rape or incest, or if their life is in danger.more

In early 2016, an American hacker broke into the servers of hotel website Booking.com and stole details of thousands of hotel reservations in countries in the Middle East. After two months of research, four Booking.com IT-specialists determined that the hacker was a man who had close ties with American intelligence services.more

The European Union's GDP will grow by 5%. in 2021, 4.3 percent in 2022 and 2.5 percent. in 2023 - results from the autumn forecast presented today by the European Commission in Brussels. The latest forecasts are partly more optimistic than summer forecasts.more

Corrupt officials from the former Afghan government have deliberately reported that there are far more soldiers in the army fighting the Taliban than there is in reality. This contributed to its downfall, former Afghan Finance Minister Khalid Pajenda revealed in an interview with the BBC.more

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow on the migrant crisis at the border between Poland and Belarus, diplomats said. It comes as the European Union said it will widen sanctions against Belarus next week.more

Italy is expanding the number of people eligible for a booster vaccine as the 4th wave in the COVID-19 pandemic grips Europe.more

The third edition of the #KTOTYJESTES (WHOYOUARE) campaign has started, encouraging people to learn Polish and promoting bilingualism among the Polish diaspora and Poles living abroad. This year's campaign is aimed at our compatriots from Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia, Russia and the Czech Republic.more

Moderna has applied to the European Union's medicine regulator for approval of its Covid-19 vaccine for children aged six to 11, the US biotechnology company announced Tuesday.more

According to ACI World’s advisory bulletin, despite recent positive news of certain markets re-opening their borders, global passenger traffic in 2021 is still expected to reach only half of what it was in 2019, with total traffic for 2021 forecast to be only 4.6 billion of the 9.2 billion passengers served two years ago.more