Europe Latvia The Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is launching a "consolidate society" campaign to draw public attention to the things that unite rather than divide, where people share stories of how common friendships, businesses and families form one country
Europe Lithuania Lithuanian Railways said it is planning to lay off around 2.000 of its more than 9.000 employees with 6 million euros earmarked for redundancy payments to employees
Europe Norway The world's first ultra-fast electric vehicle charger has been installed in Bergen; with a maximum power output of 360kW, it can charge an EV in less than 15 minutes and will now be available to more than 600.000 electric vehicle users in Norway
Europe Slovakia President Caputova received Slovak experts upon their arrival from Ukraine where they are helping to document suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity; the country was the second after France to help Ukraine map the crimes
Europe Russia Victory Day will be celebrated on Monday 9 May: for decades a hymn to peace, lately more a display of military power; this year millions and millions of people hope it will mark peace again
Europe Austria A highly publicised trial of 24 people accused of stealing millions of euros of beers while working at a brewery in Graz started; the prosecutors claim the criminal organisation operated since January 2009 and was uncovered in 2017
Europe Croatia Zagreb hospitals refused to perform an abortion on a pregnant woman whose 24-week-old foetus was diagnosed with a malignant and fatal brain tumour, reviving the debate on abortion in the Catholic country
Europe Ireland Seven nurses working in the Irish health system are assaulted every day, figures released at INMO's annual conference reveal; 4.763 incidents occurred in 2021, 909 in the first three months of 2022 alone
Europe Italy Yesterday, Poste Italiane (the National post service) celebrated its 160th anniversary, "a long history that has accompanied that of Italy", as the President of the Republic Mattarella defined it
Europe Liechtenstein The National Library scored a record year 2021 with 41.000 visitors and over 178.000 items borrowed; films, eBooks and online material accounted for 2,8%
Europe Malta YMCA Malta commissioned a quantitative analysis of contemporary homelessness in the country to better understand the challenges; it shows that you need a fixed address to apply for social housing
Europe Hungary Viktor Traski, a Hungarian mathematician from Transcarpathia, thanked the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) for the János Arany Young Researcher Award in a video sent from the front line in eastern Ukraine
Europe Iceland The upcoming municipal elections mainly revolve around the 'state of emergency in the housing and rental market', said a spokesperson for the Icelandic Tenants' Association, given the rising rents and increasing uncertainty