Europe Croatia The Grand Hotel, a 1991 Homeland War ruin, will represent ruins of World War II in a new film starring Kate Winslet
Europe Slovakia In the Slovak village of Blatná nad Ostrovom, a pilot project to mix hydrogen into the natural gas infrastructure has yielded positive results
Europe Monaco Monte-Carlo Gala, charity event organised by the Prince Albert II Foundation since 2017, was supposed to be held at the end of September, but will be suspended this year, according to Monaco-Matin journalists, because of the war in Ukraine
Europe Netherlands According to the Centre for Crime Prevention and Security, a rising number of sex workers are working secretly from home to be more cost-effective, despite it being far more dangerous
Europe Poland An alternative text version for the book 'History and the Present' was presented after the original content caused outrage for a passage suggesting that children born through in-vitro fertilisation would not be loved like as much as the others
Europe Vatican City Today starts a new unitary policy for the financial investments of the Holy See and the Vatican State; the Investment Policy aims at generating enough return to support the activities of the Holy See through investments aligned with the Church's teachings
Europe Serbia The government has adopted a recommendation to switch off the lighting of public building façades as an energy-saving measure
Europe Montenegro Montenegro will be the second country in the region, after Croatia, to abolish VAT on solar panels
Europe Luxembourg From next year, contraceptives will be free in the country, a decision that revives plans announced two years ago for the CNS to fully reimburse the cost of all types of contraceptives
Europe Moldova Approximately 1.900 hip and knee replacements were performed in the first half of this year, 180 more than in the same period last year, according to the National Medical Insurance Company
Europe San Marino In a one-off national case, local producer of leather shoes and accessories Fantini Pelletteria has increased its e-commerce value from 1% pre-pandemic to 50%; it now counts 5 shops inside the Republic and exports to Europe and Japan
Europe Vatican City The Vitae Global Foundation will hold its first summit meeting today and tomorrow; Pope Francis is expected to take part in a portion of the summit while world-renowned artists will get together to help start a cultural transformation for the common good
Europe Estonia In order to strengthen cyber defences, the Information Systems Authority has started offering bounties to collaborating hackers and has deployed its own red, or assault, squad, which has so far managed to access the network of every tested institution