Polish and allied aircraft have been deployed in a preventive operation in Poland’s airspace because of a threat of drone strikes in neighbouring areas of Ukraine. Authorities also closed the airport in the eastern city of Lublin. The alert on Saturday lasted about two hours. Earlier in the week, multiple…

On the busiest day, 25,000 visitors paid the daytripper fee, a number equivalent to over half the resident population. At the end of July, the second year of Venice’s daytripper tax trial came to an end. For 54 days in April, May, June, and July, tourists spending a day in…

Greece has announced a sweeping €1.6 billion tax reform aimed at tackling what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls one of the country’s greatest threats, the demographic crisis. But are these measures enough to reverse Greece’s demographic decline and ease the cost of living or are they simply quick fixes to…

Prince Harry has made a surprise visit to Kyiv following an invitation from the Ukrainian government, vowing to do “everything possible” to aid the recovery of the thousands of military personnel seriously injured in the three-year war against Russia. During his trip to the Ukrainian capital, the Duke of Sussex…

Lecornu, 39, faces the challenge of securing support in a divided parliament to pass a budget France’s new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has pledged a “profound break” with past politics as he succeeded the unpopular centrist François Bayrou, who was ousted this week over a proposed budget squeeze. Lecornu, 39,…