Europe Ireland March 2023 was the wettest month in the last 83 years, according to provisional statistics from Met Éireann, with an average of 173,3 millimeters of rain across the island
Europe Portugal The country confirmed the termination of the golden visa regime as it was; between 2012 and 2023, 89% of residence permits were granted exclusively for the purchase of real estate, while only in 22 cases did investors create jobs
Europe Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre hopes that the first large offshore wind projects will boost local expertise that can spread around the world, but opposition politicians believe that project start-up is slow and expensive
Europe Russia Despite Daria Trepova's admission in an interrogation film released by the Interior Ministry in connection with Tataskji's death, many suspect she was framed
Europe Denmark Government criticised for delaying mink-saving measures; a year ago the Mink Commission published an investigation report about the government’s actions during the 2020 mink cull, and the industry itself, that should have led to immediate bettering action
Europe Croatia After arriving unannounced in Kyiv, PM Plenkovic praised the bravery shown by Ukrainians in the resistance to Russian aggression; he reached Ukraine’s capital together with the Moldovan President and the Slovak and Slovenian Prime Ministers
Europe Bulgaria Early parliamentary elections, the fifth in the past two years, have opened, with the conservative Gerb party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who has led the government for almost a decade, favoured
Europe Poland Wojtyla's monument was daubed with the inscription 'Maxima culpa' from the title of the book that accuses the pontiff of covering up child sex abuse perpetrators when he was archbishop in Krakow
Europe France Progressive tariffs, savings and combating leaks are all measures in the new water management plan that President Emmanuel Macron has announced to better tackle the drought
Europe Sweden The Swedish Tax Agency has been commissioned to conduct a national census to get a better picture of who is staying illegally, said the Minister of Finance and leader of the far-right Sweden Democrat party
Europe Serbia An extension of the spending deadline for the IPARD farm fund has been requested to the European Commission to ensure €30 million in grants for Serbian farmers do not remain unused
Europe Kosovo A conference organized by BIRN Kosovo before the International Fact-Checking Day, set for yesterday 2 April, called for new strategies and partnerships to counter the 'virus' of fake news and disinformation
Europe Andorra Andorra la Vella will have a virtual urban motor racing circuit at the end of 2024 or 2025, following a collaboration agreement between the capital's municipality and the Automóbil Club d'Andorra