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Irish fishermen look set to take on the Russian Navy, with a fishing organisation in the country planning a peaceful protest of military drills off the island’s coast.

An ex-servicewoman of the Irish Defence Forces has pleaded not guilty to membership of the Islamic State during a court hearing on Tuesday.

Europe’s ‘heavy dependence’ on Russian gas for energy has left nations on the continent scrambling for alternatives over supply fears.

Nine million unboosted French people are set to lose access to their vaccine passes on February 15, according to one government minister.

A university in Ireland has dumped the name of physicist Erwin Schrödinger from one of its lecture halls after it emerged that the Nobel Prize winner was a paedophile.

The coronavirus is likely moving into a “kind of pandemic endgame” in Europe, the regional director of the World Health Organization said.

The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) issued an appeal Friday urging support for Ukraine under the threat of Russian military aggression.

China has lashed out at the French National Assembly, saying that the recently passed resolution denouncing the genocide of Uyghurs is based on ‘pure lies’.

A Taliban delegation will travel to Norway for talks with representatives of the Norwegian authorities and several allied countries.

A COVID sea change appears to be occurring in Europe, as both Ireland and France look set to follow England in easing restrictions.

The European Commission has demanded that Poland cough up €70 million in fines the nation has so far refused to pay.

France’s National Assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution denouncing China’s genocide against its Uyghur minority.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the right to abortion to be added to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights

Italy will once again expand its list of active COVID restrictions, with the next set of measures slated to come into force on Thursday.

Outrage has erupted in France over the revelation that the nation’s Education Minister had announced further COVID measures for schools while on vacation in Ibiza.

In what looks like a potential repeat of the Djokovic controversy in Australia, France has declared that unjabbed foreign athletes will not be permitted to play in the country.

The government of Austria presented revised plans for its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which will apply to all residents age 18.

Germany is now ‘dramatically behind’ its CO2 emissions target shortly after it abandoned half of its remaining nuclear plants, calling the tech ‘dangerous’.

Ex-officers up to 70 years of age are being pulled out of retirement in Upper-Austria to help enforce national lockdown rules in the province.

The number of suicide attempts amongst children increased threefold during Germany’s second lockdown, according to estimates in a university hospital report.

An MEP has called out the ‘brutal’ actions of police at lockdown protests in Europe, drawing comparisons to the old communist regimes.

French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to hold “accountable” online outlets publishing foreign ‘propaganda’ for consumption in France.

An open letter on behalf of a number of police officers in Austria has asked the nation’s Interior Minister to oppose compulsory vaccination.

Dozens of rallies have taken place across Germany, as tens of thousands continue to protest COVID restrictions in the federal republic.

Vaccinated and recovered people in one German city will soon be able to wear a special ribbon in order to convey their status to retail workers.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to protest lockdown rules, described by one MEP as ‘draconian and irrational’

Plain clothes Police are being deployed in Austria to assist in the intensification of COVID restrictions in the country.

Thousands again took the streets in Austria, marking the second day of large protests against the nation’s COVID restrictions.

Around 40,000 people took the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Austria, as a system of “Corona Apartheid” continues to operate in the EU country.

Over 100,000 took to the streets on Saturday to protest France’s impending vaccine pass regime days after President Macron said he wanted to “piss off” the unjabbed.

Austria is to begin deactivating COVID passes after six months from February in an effort to increase the population’s adoption of booster jabs.

Italy has made vaccination against the Chinese Coronavirus mandatory for over-50s while also cracking down on access to workplaces.

The French National Assembly has voted to adopt a law that would implement a new regime of vaccination passes, despite previously blocking the bill twice.

The German city of Hamburg is to ban unboosted people who do not have a negative COVID test from restaurants

French President Macron has stirred concern after saying it was his intention to ‘piss off’ the unjabbed, questioning their citizenship.

The Lithuanian government has paid 98 illegal migrants €1,000 to board a flight to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.