The European Parliament and the European Council reached an agreement on the first-ever EU climate law - raising the current 2030 emission-reduction target from 40 percent to around 55 percent (including carbon sinks).

Fighting in Ethiopia is "dire", with ongoing ethnic cleansing and sexual violence, Finnish foreign minister Pekka Haavisto has said after visiting the conflict zone in Tigray.

Norway, Finland, Sweden Denmark lead the world ranking of 180 countries, while - among EU members - Malta, Hungary, and Bulgaria have the lowest placings.

Bogus Covid conspiracy theories are more often debunked in Facebook in the US than those found in Europe - especially when written in Italian and French, a study has found.

The European Union is sending 651,000 BioNTech/Pfizer coronavirus vaccines to the Western Balkan countries - after lagging behind the 'vaccine diplomacy' of Russia, China, and even Serbia, in the region.

Afghans in 2020 constituted the second-largest group of asylum seekers arriving in Europe - outlining the necessity to accelerate the reform of the EU migration regime to avoid another crisis.