Europe
What's happening in Brussels and what the rest of Europe is up to through the eyes of the Mainland Times. In simple terms, how the current events in the EU will affect the lives of EU citizens and expats.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer tests positive for COVID-19
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home, he announced on Twitter. Nehammer has...
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Putin’s Kazakh gambit tightens his grip on ex-Soviet space
Oksana Antonenko is a director for Global Risk Analysis at Control Risks and a global policy fellow at the Kennan...
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Germany tightens rules for hospitality sector and reduces isolation periods
Germany will implement stricter rules for the hospitality sector and shorten the period of COVID-19 quarantine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz...
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Poland’s Watergate: Ruling party leader admits country has Pegasus hacking software
Jarosław Kaczyński, chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and the country’s de facto leader, confirmed that the...
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France loosens UK travel restrictions
France on Thursday expanded the list of compelling reasons to travel to and from the U.K., effective as of January...
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Emmanuel Macron’s pissed off. He’s not the only one.
Welcome to Declassified, a weekly column looking at the lighter side of politics. As new year’s resolutions go, wanting to...
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The not-so-fantastic 4: Central Europe’s divided Visegrad alliance
The Visegrad Group of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic is known as the V4, but it’s turning into...
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Biden talks tough on Putin, but European allies are less ready for a fight
President Joe Biden has warned Russian dictator Vladimir Putin that his country will face severe sanctions if it once again...
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France flexes muscles with fines against Facebook, Google over cookie banners
France is going after the pesky online trackers known as cookies — and showing the world it’s not afraid to...
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Blinken urges ‘peaceful’ resolution amid Kazakhstan chaos
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Thursday with his Kazakhstani counterpart amid a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the...
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