The EU Commission announced Wednesday that it will issue its forthcoming SURE bonds of up to EUR 100 billion - designed to help protect jobs and keep people in work through the pandemic - as social ...
There is a significant risk that the EU will not meet its plastic packaging recycling targets for 2025 and 2030, according to a review published Tuesday by the European Court of ...
Turkey and Western Balkan countries looking to join the EU show slow progress on rule of law, corruption, and freedom of the judiciary and the media, the Commission's enlargement review said ...
The European Parliament gave the go-ahead Monday to a single set of rules for crowdfunding services in the EU up to EUR 5,000,000, including strict rules to protect investors from financial ...
EU leaders at a summit Friday agreed to impose sanctions on the Belarus regime, calling for an end to violence and repression and for new free and fair elections without external ...
Guaranteed rerouting and better help for passengers when there are delays and cancellations form part of updated legislation on stronger rights for train passengers agreed Thursday by the EU ...
Following Britain's refusal to remove parts of its draft Internal Market Bill by end September, the Commission began legal action Thursday for the UK's breach of obligations under the Withdrawal ...
The Commission fined car parts suppliers Brose and Kiekert a total of EUR 18 million Tuesday for taking part in two cartels concerning supplies of closure systems for cars in the European Economic ...
Europe faces important challenges to the rule of law, an EU-wide report published Wednesday by the Commission shows, highlighting the threat to Poland's judicial independence and corruption in ...
The European Commission fined car parts suppliers Brose and Kiekert a total of EUR 18 million Tuesday for taking part in two cartels concerning supplies of closure systems for cars in the European ...
The EU Commission launched a new Customs Union Action Plan Monday, setting out a series of measures to make EU customs 'smarter, more innovative and more efficient' over the next four ...
The city of Leuven in Belgium is the European Capital of Innovation 2020, in recognition of its excellent innovation concepts as well as its processes and governance models that enable ideas come to ...
The EU Commission decided Friday to appeal a European Court of Justice judgement which annulled a 2016 EC decision finding that Ireland granted illegal State aid to Apple through selective tax ...
The EU Council approved Friday financial support of EUR 87.4 bn to 16 Member States in the form of EU loans under SURE - a temporary EU instrument to mitigate unemployment risks during the COVID-19 ...
The EU Council and European Parliament provisionally agreed Tuesday on measures to support fishermen affected by difficult stocks situations in the Baltic Sea including scrapping ...
Europe's industry is not fully benefiting from advanced technologies to innovate and remain competitive, EU auditors said Tuesday, with some countries still lacking national digitalisation ...
Increase in cocaine availability with seizures at a record high, a near doubling of heroin seizures and high availability of high purity drugs are the stand-out points of the European Drug Report ...
The EU Commission adopted Monday revised guidelines for the EU Emission Trading System in the context of the system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading post-2021 (the ‘ETS ...
The EU Commission proposed a new revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive Tuesday, with new or revised limit values limiting workers' exposure to three important cancer-causing ...
The EU Commission put forward a proposal Tuesday to upgrade the Single European Sky regulatory framework, with more modern management of European airspace and more sustainable and efficient ...
Μοτζοκέρτο, Ινδονησία: Περιστέρια πετούν μπροστά από ένα γιγάντιο άγαλμα του Βούδα στον ναό Maha Vihara Mojopahit, ενόψει του φεστιβάλ Βεσάκ, το οποίο τιμά τη γέννηση, τη φώτιση και το θάνατο του Βούδα. Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images
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Στο Λονδίνο ακούγονται συστηματικά πάνω από 300 διαφορετικές γλώσσες και διάλεκτοι!
Ναπολεόντειοι πόλεμοι: Η Μεγάλη Βρετανία κηρύσσει τον πόλεμο στη Γαλλία
1821
Μάχη των Δολιανών: Ο Έλληνας οπλαρχηγός Νικηταράς με 300 περίπου άντρες τρέπει σε φυγή 6.000 Τούρκους, τους οποίους και αποδεκατίζει. Από την μάχη αυτή ο γενναίος οπλαρχηγός έμεινε στην Ιστορία ως "Τουρκοφάγος".
1954
Τίθεται σε ισχύ η Ευρωπαϊκή Συνθήκη για τα Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα.
1994
Διεξάγεται στο Ολυμπιακό στάδιο της Αθήνας ο 37ος τελικός του Champions League μεταξύ των ποδοσφαιρικών ομάδων Μίλαν και Μπαρτσελόνα. Νικήτρια η ομάδα της Μίλαν με 4-0.