Geography of Europe

A street artist performs in the Croatian capital of Zagreb on January 14, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/Antonio Bat.

An elderly Romanian woman outside of a pharmacy in downtown Bucharest, Romania, on January 14, 2021.Photo: EPA-EFE/Robert Ghement.

Hundreds of family members of Kosovo Albanian civilians killed by Serbian forces on January 15, 1999 gathered on Friday in Recak/Racak, a village 20 kilometres south of Pristina, to commemorate the anniversary.

Forty-four people are confirmed to have been killed that day, and one woman remains missing.

A minister in a Bosnian canton bordering Croatia said the EU member state had forcibly returned over 7,000 migrants and refugees to Bosnia last year, asking why his own country had not done the same to its neighbours.

Harking back to the times when it was on the margins of Greece's political life as an anti-establishment party backing protests, main opposition SYRIZA said Thursday it will fight tooth and nail against the government's new education bill, which, among other things, foresees the presence of police on university campuses to deal with chronic lawlessness plaguing the country's academic institutio

The US Embassy in Athens is launching a yearlong campaign to commemorate Greece's 1821 War of Independence, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt announced in an interview with state broadcaster ERT Thursday.

Krško – Power utility group GEN, which manages the Slovenian half of the Krško power plant, exceeded its plans last year despite the challenging situation and delayed investments due to the Covid-19 epidemic. There were also no disturbances in electricity supply. Net profit reached EUR 65 million, CEO Martin Novšak told the press on Thursday.

Alexandria – Slovenia opened their campaign at the World Men’s Handball Championship in Egypt on Thursday with a convincing 51:29 win against South Korea, getting a much-needed confidence boost ahead of Saturday’s encounter with Russia.

Greece has a very good showing overall as it is in the yellow

A 2.5-billion-euro deal for the purchase of 18 Dassault-made Rafale fighter jets from France was ratified by Greece's Parliament on Thursday evening.

The deal passed with an overwhelming majority, securing the support of opposition lawmakers from SYRIZA, Movement for Change and Greek Solution. The Greek Communist Party (KKE) and MeRA25 voted it down.

Epirus in northwestern Greece, the Ionian Islands and the Aegean islands are currently the only green areas in Europe, according to a revised map published on Thursday by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) charting the spread of the coronavirus.