Europe San Marino The shareholders' meeting of local bank Banca Sammarinese di Investimento SpA approved the financial statements for 2021, closed with a net profit of €8 million, with the best economic and equity results
Europe Spain The country is finalising the details of a bill that would guarantee the right to request an abortion in the country's free public health system and remove the requirement to obtain parental consent for those aged 16 and over
Europe Iceland The Arctic tern has returned to the country, According to the records of the Southeast Iceland Bird Observatory - which monitors the annual arrival of migratory birds - with about 1.000 terns observed in the Ósland conservation area in Höfn í Hornafjörður
Europe Latvia In order to increase pedestrian safety in Rīga, the City Council is discussing further regulations for electric scooters, as the number of accidents involving them is rising
Europe Switzerland The Swiss government has released the value of 6,3 billion Swiss francs (€6,05 billion) worth of Russian assets frozen under sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine; the figure is down from around 7.5 billion francs worth of funds frozen on 7 April
Europe Norway Environmental organisations Natur og Ungdom and Naturvernforbundet are ready to sue the state to stop the dumping of mining waste in Førdefjorden, pointing out that the permit granted in 2015 did not include a plan for waste management
Europe Netherlands Amnesty International and the KNVB - the Netherlands Football Association - condemned the Qatari hotels that refuse gay couples during the World Cup
Europe Montenegro Human rights activists urged Prime Minister Abazovic to compensate the families of six civilians killed in air strikes on the village of Murino in April 1999, during NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia
Europe Moldova From 24 February to 13 May, the Office for Migration and Asylum received 7.381 asylum applications; since the beginning of the war, 421.929 Ukrainian citizens have entered the country, of whom 84.735 have remained
Europe Albania The cost per sqm of real estate in Tirana rose by 3,2% since 12/2021; Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime Initiative estimated that €300-700 million of dirty money enters Albania every year, much of it destined for the construction sector
Europe Croatia The EC has approved a positive preliminary assessment of an application for the payment of €700m in grants from the Recovery and Resilience Fund in the areas of healthcare, adult education, anti-corruption and energy efficiency in buildings
Europe Poland The country has registered ten times as many Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war in Ukraine as Serbia received from the Middle East at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis - of whom 141.000 on 8 March
Europe Germany Economy and Climate Minister Habeck said the country might be able to cope with a boycott of Russian gas imports as early as next winter, emphasising how everyone can play their part in reducing consumption