brussels bureau COVID-19, rule of law, EU programmes: The wrangling over the EU budget last updated: 16/10/2020 What started out as a seemingly normal Commission proposal back in May 2018, turned into a battle between two of the EU's three institutions, after the pandemic rewrote the rules of nearly everything it touched.
no comment Istanbul skids and slides to a halt as snow blankets Turkish city It comes as extreme cold has hit large parts of Europe, with freezing temperatures cracking railroad tracks in Poland and smog spiking as coal was being burned to generate heat.