Ukraine Launches Campaign to Bring Back Refugees from Germany Amid Population Crisis
Ukraine is facing a severe population decline due to the ongoing war, with nearly half of its citizens now living abroad
The German movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) held it first rally in Austria on Monday.
However PEGIDA failed to attract as many supporters as it usually does in its marches in Germany, the BBC reports.
Only a few hundred protesters participated in the rally in Vienna, who were significantly outnumbered by both police and nearly 5000 people who gathered in a counter-demonstration.
The movement, which originated in the German town of Dresden last year, has spread both around the country and abroad.
It has held marches on a smaller scale in the Czech Republic, Denmark and Norway and has sympathisers in Spain, Switzerland and Sweden.
The messages espoused by PEGIDA are not unknown in Austria, as the far-right Freedom Party, which won 20 % in the 2013 general election, campaigns on a similar platform.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against the owner and manager of a company in connection with suspected fraud in a public procurement for trolleybuses in Vratsa, Bulgaria
The European Commission has warned that it will take retaliatory measures if the United States moves forward with new tariffs on steel and aluminium
The authorities in Transnistria, a self-declared breakaway region of Moldova, have rejected €60 million in aid offered by the European Union to address the region’s ongoing energy crisis
A consumer boycott targeting large retail chains is gaining traction in Romania, mirroring similar price-related protests in other Balkan countries
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have officially disconnected from Russia’s electricity grid and successfully integrated into the European Union’s power network
On February 1, Slovakia resumed importing Russian gas via the TurkStream pipeline
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