Croatia lifts air borders for Schengen zone countries
Croatia's airports dropped internal border controls on Sunday for passengers travelling to or from the borderless Schengen Zone, potentially sparking an increase in its tourism sector.
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Under pressure from Berlin, the EU relaxes its ban on combustion engines after 2035
Germany and the European Union announced Saturday that they have reached an agreement in their dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines, allowing the registration of new vehicles with such engines even after 2035 provided they use climate-neutral fuel only.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg welcomes Norway's 'significant' miltary aid to Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has praised Norway's financial and military aid to Ukraine, one day after a delivery of eight German-made Leopard tanks sent by Oslo arrived in the country.
'The pension age cannot be same for everybody': EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights
"The pension age cannot be the same for everybody […] There has to be a criteria of hardship taken into account." For Schmit, the French government's reforms to the pension age cannot be a one-size-fits-all solution. The EU's Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights said any raising of the retirement age must go hand-in-hand with programmes to ensure that people at the end of their careers do have realistic employment opportunities. "If you want people to work longer, you have to prepare them to work longer. That’s about working conditions, investing in their skills, they might evolve and change the way they work. If you consider that someone might work the same way when they are 20 as when they are 64, then this is not realistic."
Cyprus needs to 'take advantage' of Turkish elections to revive dialogue, says president
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in full swing, the geopolitical landscape has completely changed, as have the priorities of the European Union, and its relations with other countries.
France passes controversial AI surveillance bill ahead of 2024 Olympics
Noémie Levain of data rights group La Quadrature du Net calls the bill "the worst technological turning point of the last few years in France".
The world’s richest country made public transport free: Here’s what happened next
Luxembourg became the first country in the world to scrap fares on all public transport in 2020. Three years later, residents are filled with praise for the scheme.
Richest country in Europe marks third year of free public transport
It seems more than hard to imagine but, if you've been living in the tiny EU state of Luxembourg you will already have had access to free public transport for the last three years.