Europe

2024 Real Estate Observatory reveals an increase in the number of transactions (+12%), a record sales of new properties (101 transactions) and an overall rise in prices as one in two properties sold for over €22 million

A gay couple of two fertile partners cannot deduct assisted fertilisation treatments from their taxes, Court of Cassation has ruled, but costs are deductible for heterosexual couples who can't conceive after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse

Timișoara municipality has approved the Urban Zoning Plan for the National Museum of the Anticommunist Revolution of December 1989

Barcelona City Council and the non-profit organisation Habitat 3 have reached an agreement to buy Casa Orsola, the residential building that the Spanish daily País calls 'the symbol of the rental crisis in the city'

As the authorities in Belgrade try to counter the ongoing protests, the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering of the Ministry of Finance pressurised banks to hand over the account and transaction data of five well-known activists

Jana Maškarová was presented as the new president of the Slovak police; seven years ago, Maškarová was appointed the first female police vice-president

Virtuoso, the leading global network specialising in luxury and experiential travel, has chosen Slovenia as one of nine must-see luxury travel experiences for 2025

Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, will be demolished almost eight years after the fire that killed 72 people; it will take around two years to dismantle the tower and it will be done in a 'sensitive' manner, the government said

Over 1.500 weapons have been handed in so far during the weapons amnesty introduced by the government following the mass shooting on New Year's Eve; experts warn that without greater law enforcement, illegal weapons will continue to flourish

With the start of the tendering process for online casino licences, online gambling operators expect an end to the decades-long gambling monopoly and the opening of the online market

Poland's largest utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna has signed a €400 million agreement loan with the European Investment Bank for the design and construction of Baltica 2, the EU's largest offshore wind farm

The European Union will support Moldova with €250 million this year to help strengthen the country's energy security