Europe Luxembourg After last weekend's antivax demonstrations became violent, the city set up restricted protest zone and established that any protestor breaking out of the zone would face legal penalties
Europe Andorra November imports reached €154,14 million, +58,4% compared to November 2020, though according to the Statistics Department the total imports in the first 11 months of 2021 amount to €1.178,14,00 million, -3,4% on last year
Europe San Marino The National Day of the Republic of San Marino at Expo Dubai 2020 has been postponed due to Covid reasons: given the high institutional profile of the meetings and the peak of cases in the Republic, the celebration will be rescheduled
Europe Serbia Following the large environmental protests, the government has offered to withdraw the contested Expropriation Law and amend the Referendum Law but some groups still call for stronger guarantees that Rio Tinto’s lithium mine won't be granted permission
Europe Montenegro On the 30th anniversary of the bombardment of Dubrovnik – in which Montenegrin troops took part – NGOs have called on the government to end the culture of impunity over war crimes committed in the 1990s
Europe Estonia The Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology has called at a meeting of EU telecoms ministers for the level of cybersecurity to match the overall threat picture, focusing on prevention
Europe Italy In his last year of mandate, president Mattarella chose to celebrate the International Mountain Day to draw attention on the importance of mountain regions for biodiversity and the preservation of natural resources across the world
Europe Portugal Regional authorities in the Madeira Islands have expanded a marine protected area to create what they said is the largest fully protected marine reserve in Europe and the North Atlantic with a total area of 2.677 km²
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Residents of Mostar are mobilising to close the large open-air landfill, known as the landfill of death, which is considered by many to be harmful not only to the environment but also to the increase in cancer in its inhabitants
Europe Romania Employees of public institutions will receive, between 2022 and 2026, holiday vouchers worth 1.450 lei each (US$330), with an estimated impact on the budget amounting to 8,65 billion lei in total (almost US$2 billion)
Europe Austria Right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) MP Dagmar Belakowitsch caused outrage by claiming that hospitals were not filled with the unvaccinated, but with people who needed treatment because of vaccination damage
Europe Moldova An international campaign against gender-based violence, with 16 days of activism and information, ends today in the country, were violence against women is widespread and usually severely underfunded
Europe Liechtenstein The Financial Market Authority of Liechtenstein has elected Christian Batliner, former Member of the Board of Directors, as new President