Europe Spain The special concert "United for Peace: Ukraine in the Heart" will take place today and will be broadcast by the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE; the proceeds will be donated to humanitarian efforts through UNHCR, the Red Cross and CEAR
Europe Montenegro The average salary in February without taxes was €706, with employees in financial sector having the highest income of €1.156, followed by the energy sector €1.090, while people in the manufacturing industry received the lowest earnings - €571
Europe Andorra Andorra la Vella has received more than a hundred proposals in the second edition of participatory budgets
Europe Sweden Sweden's operational PV capacity reached 1.59GW at the end of December, up from 1.09GW a year earlier, according to the Swedish Energy Agency; the country has about 92.360 PV installations, with about 26.500 added last year
Europe United Kingdom Edible Oils Ltd, which bottles cooking oils for 75% of the country's retail market, said it has only a few weeks' supply of sunflower oil; manufacturers of foods with sunflower oil, from crisps to cereal bars, are reworking their recipes
Europe Vatican City New document by Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education could make it more difficult for LGBTQI people to enter the Catholic school system, said DignityUSA, an organization of Catholics committed to fully include LGBTQI people in their church
Europe Albania The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center inaugurated on Friday the food basket distribution project for Ramadan: 5.514 food baskets in 31 Albanian cities, benefiting 27.570 people
Europe San Marino Paolo Rondelli, 58, who was vice-president of Arcigay Rimini, has become head of state in the country, where until 2004 homosexuality was considered a crime
Europe Russia Russian foreign minister on a visit to New Delhi thanked the country for not judging the crisis in Ukraine from a single perspective but "in the totality of the facts" and said he was ready to open a door on oil supply to India
Europe Switzerland Federal Statistical Office on 1 April published March inflation data, at +2.4% on March 2021, and consumer price index (CPI) at +0.6% year on year; it also made public the average salary figures for 2020: CHF 6.665 a month working full time
Europe Norway 37% of female employees in Norway aged 20-66 worked part-time in 2020, over twice as much as men, with 17%; large gender differences in education contribute to reproducing differences in working life according to Statistics Norway
Europe Slovenia Alojz Kralj, the last remaining member of the clandestine anti-fascist organisation TIGR, has died at the age of 101, said TIGR Primorska, an association promoting anti-fascist values