After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users have 10 weeks to decide what they want to do with their account.more

A Polish citizen was detained by Romanian gendarmerie on Saturday during a multi-thousand-strong far-right demonstration in Bucharest. As the Romanian police reported yesterday, the Pole, who was carrying a knife, was banned from participating in public gatherings.more

‘Anora’ by Sean Baker won five Oscars on Sunday night and Monday night, including Best Picture and Best Director. The filmmaker appealed from the stage to filmmakers to shoot pictures destined for the big screens. ‘Let's watch the films in cinemas, let's keep this great tradition alive’. - he stressed.more

Catalonia will double its tourist tax from next year, which could amount to up to €15 per night in Barcelona. If the solution comes into effect, the Catalan capital will be the city with the highest tourist tax in Europe, overtaking Paris and Rome.more

More than 70 per cent. Spaniards are against bullfighting, according to a survey conducted by the BBVA Foundation. As the Spanish media notes, public attitudes towards animals have changed a lot in a decade and a half.more

Donald Trump's meeting with Volodymyr Zelenski at the White House initially proceeded in a relatively good atmosphere, but ended in an unprecedented argument. The conversation turned into an argument. Diplomacy died down on live television as US President Donald Trump and his deputy JD Vance bullied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski yesterday, the ‘Guardian’ daily assessed today.more

The agreement between the United States and Ukraine, which is to be signed today during the meeting between Trump and Zelensky, provides for the creation of an Investment Reconstruction Fund, financed, among other things, from the extraction of deposits, including oil and gas, to which Ukraine will transfer 50 percent of the revenues from this, the portal European Truth reported.more

French President Emmanuel Macron, on a two-day visit to Portugal, yesterday called on the people of the European Union to prepare for difficult times ahead, and appealed for EU countries to be guided by the principle of unity.more

A German court sentenced two Afghan men to several years in prison on Thursday for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament and killing lawmakers in response to the burning of copies of the Quran.more

Around 40% of the workforce in Albania has emigrated abroad. This figure comes from the 2024 report of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The report estimates that a significant portion of Albania’s workforce is employed in other countries, emphasizing that this massive movement has had a substantial impact on local businesses, which continue to lose workers.more

More than 290,000 Canadians have signed a petition asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to strip tech mogul Elon Musk of his Canadian citizenship for acting against Canada’s national interest.more

US President Donald Trump Wednesday said that the European Union was formed to "screw" the United States as he threatened to levy 25 percent tariffs against the bloc. Trump's latest invective brought swift reaction from the EU, with one official saying the bloc had in fact been a "boon" for the United States.more

Three years of war in Ukraine have had an impact on Poland's image among Portuguese public opinion. Evidence of security concerns is the smaller number of Portuguese travelling to Poland - with the exception of students.more

Ukraine may sign a deal with the United States on minerals in Washington on Friday, AFP reported yesterday, citing a senior Ukrainian official. Earlier, the Financial Times reported that Ukraine had agreed to the American agreement.more

Tesla car sales in the European Union fell by half in January 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to ACEA. At the same time, the market share of electric cars reached a record 15 percent. Hybrids are becoming increasingly popular in Poland.more

Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said private company Ocean Infinity had resumed the search for the wreckage of flight MH370, which disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.more

Several European and non-European countries are ready to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine if an agreement is reached between Kiev and Moscow, French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday after meeting with Donald Trump during a press conference at the White House.more

The European Union spent more money on Russian fuels in the third year of the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine than on financial aid given to Kyiv, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), cited by the UK's daily ‘The Guardian’ today.more

‘After difficult, chaotic years in politics, the Germans have chosen a change and a new, strong leader in the form of the leader of the victorious CDU party Friedrich Merz,’ said University of Szczecin historian Professor Pierre-Frederic Weber, commenting on the results of the Bundestag elections.more

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha has expressed confidence that his country can achieve a "just and reasonable peace" this year. The diplomat spoke yesterday at the "Ukraine. Year 2025" forum, dedicated to the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.more

Introducing a guaranteed income in Canada would reduce the area of poverty by up to 40 per cent and cost between $53 billion and $107 billion, according to a report released this week by the parliamentary budget watchdog.more

Berlin police have arrested a suspect accused of carrying out an attack at a memorial to Holocaust victims - the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the centre of the German capital, investigators announced last night. One person was seriously injured as a result of the attack. The identity of the suspect has been established: he is a 19-year-old Syrian refugee. more

Representatives of the Trump administration threatened Ukraine with immediate cut-off from the Starlink orbital communications network if Kyiv did not agree to a profit-sharing deal on Ukraine's natural resources, Reuters reported. Donald Trump assessed yesterday that Ukraine was likely to agree to US demands soon.more

The United States does not want the joint declaration of the G7 countries to mark the third anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine to include the wording about Russia as an aggressor, the 'Financial Times' reported yesterday.more

The value of EU exports of goods to non-EU countries in 2024 reached €2.59 trillion, up 1.1 per cent on 2023, according to the latest Eurostat figures. Imports to the EU amounted to €2.43 trillion, recording a decrease of 3.5 per cent on the previous year.more