Nearly a million Irish passports were issued in 2019, according to The Guardian, citing the Irish government. The number of Irish passports issued this year increased by 7% compared to last year and reached a record level.  In 2019, more than 900 thousand Irish entry documents were issued....

The founder of WikiLeaks must be released from Belmarsh prison in the light of reports of deterioration in his health, human rights activists say. Reporters Without Borders called on the US to drop espionage charges from Assange. Reporters Without Borders human rights organization calls for the...

The IMF Executive Board approved allotment of $ 498.4 million to Ecuador. The final tranche of the reform support program was agreed for 2019 after revision of the government’s economic plan was conducted. "The findings of the two audits allow the authorities to get the equivalent of SDR 361.3...

Jean-Paul Delevoye, French pension reform chief, resigned on Monday after it became known that he had hidden information about the positions held in a number of organizations along with his duties of an official. This was first reported by Le Parisien last week. On Sunday, Delevoye told Le Monde...

Heads of EU countries and governments reached an agreement on climate change, said EC President Charles Michel. Poland did not join the agreement. “Nothing worthwhile comes easily ... But we did it! The EU should be climate neutral by 2050,” Mr Michel wrote on Twitter. At a press conference, German...

The European Union is preparing a program to combat wasteful food consumption and losses in the food industry. A conference on the EU Platform for Food Waste Reduction and Wasteful Food Consumption will be focus on recommendations for the EU Food Waste Action Plan. It will be held on Thursday at...

On Tuesday, representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico signed amendments to the tripartite agreement of the countries on free trade in Mexico City, allowing beginning parliamentary ratification of the document. "We have reached a fundamental agreement. This is an agreement that works...

The Finnish parliament will vote on a candidate for the future prime minister on Tuesday. At a Sunday meeting of the leading ruling Social Democratic Party, the 34-year-old deputy chairman of the party, the Minister of Transport and Communications Sanna Marin, was elected presidential candidate....

Parisian Monde notes very high activity of participants in the protest demonstrations held in France on Thursday as part of a nationwide strike. The newspaper writes that the statistics on participation in protests by trade unions and the police are always different. The organizers of the...