Europe

An auction to issue frequency licences in the second 5G frequency band is about to begin with invitations to participate sent to three communications companies

Economy and Innovation Minister Ausrine Armonaite invited the US technology giant Microsoft to expand in Lithuania, as it offers many opportunities for businesses and the public sector to work together to implement innovations

Slovak scientists are playing a key role in an international project for a new European solar telescope to unlock the Sun's secrets using what has been described as the "most powerful instrument ever conceived to observe it"

The conditions for the conduct of the competition for the financing of publishing projects and the purchase of books by the State will be improved thanks to new government amendments

The Social Democrats urged the government to increase spending to combat gender-based violence by creating dedicated facilities in the country, where 14 feminicides were already recorded in 2022

Parliament has approved the first reading of four bills by the Socialist Party, Left Blocc, IL and PAN that regulate the decriminalisation of medically assisted death

The country, hoping that Ukraine will soon be granted EU candidate status, said it was ready to provide it with political and expert help

Democrats, Parliament's largest opposition party, have proposed that drug tests be mandatory for public office holders, arguing it is "in the public interest to know whether politicians are taking prohibited drugs"

The country will lift its veto on North Macedonia's EU accession talks if 3 criteria are met: compliance with the framework position adopted by Bulgarian Parliament, inclusion of Bulgarians in Constitution and implementation of Neighbourhood Agreement

The National Museum of Norway was inaugurated yesterday, which will house, among other 6500 works, the famous 'The Scream of Munch'; one million visitors are expected in a year

A group of asylum seekers, supported by refugee groups and a British border staff union, asked a British court to stop the government from taking them to Rwanda, arguing that the controversial plan is unsafe

The use of Google Analytics is not legal without a new agreement to replace the EU-US data processing agreement, French data watchdog CNIL clarified on its website, also shutting down hopes that it could be reconfigured to allow data transfer to the US

According to Linda Jakobsone, board member of the Lets Help Refugees association, the biggest problems for Ukrainian war refugees who have arrived in Latvia are their involvement in the labour market and the insufficient supply of housing