Europe Spain An investment of €1,4 billion in the areas around the Doñana National Park will encourage farmers to stop cultivating crops that are heavily dependent on water from underground aquifers, overexploited in recent years
Europe Andorra Concern about housing has driven up enquiries in the last two months, leading the National Housing Institute to surpass last year's total so far this year, with 682 services in less than eleven months compared to 663 in 2022
Europe Belarus President Lukashenko signed Decree No. 375 "On the Proclamation of 2024 Year of Quality"
Europe Finland Pepi, an experienced drug-sniffing dog working in Turku, was named Customs Dog of the Year for his work in discovering drugs cleverly hidden in children's toys
Europe Kosovo NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stated that consideration is being given to the need to add more troops in Kosovo
Europe Switzerland The Federal Council ratified an amendment to the 1996 Protocol to the 1972 so-called London Protocol that would allow the export of CO2 for storage in sub-seabed geological formations from 2024, in order to meet net-zero emissions goals
Europe Lithuania Lithuanian Railways will launch the Vilnius-Riga train by end of year, with the first train sheduled to depart on December 27, even though the company said the dates may be subject to adjustment
Europe Ireland The props used in The Banshees of Inisherin, My Left Foot, Normal People and Father Ted and other films are among the 1.800 collector's items in an online auction with an estimated value of almost half a million euros
Europe Italy The Italian national tennis team won the Davis Cup, in Malaga, Spain, 47 years after the historic victory in Chile in 1976; the winners of the two matches in the final are two promising youngsters born in 2001
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Members of the RS veterans' organisation shouted 'this is Serbia' in Banja Luka; the Ministry of the Interior of Republika Srpska had banned the celebration of BiH State Day
Europe Denmark Denmark topped the IMD world competitiveness ranking for 2023, at first place in the list for the second year in a row
Europe Croatia More than 30.000 Croatians over 65 are still working and represent less than 2% of all employed persons in Croatia; however, they are twice as many as three years ago
Europe Bulgaria New Eurostat data show that Bulgaria is the second country in the EU with a significant percentage of people with a low level of education living in poverty, with 67,9% falling into the poverty category