European foreign ministers met on Monday in Brussels to discuss reviving a naval mission in the Mediterranean in order to enforce an arms embargo against Libya's warring parties, news wires reported. On Sunday Germany hosted a summit to push for a ceasefire in the country, gripped by civil war since the 2011 overthrow of dictator Moamar Gaddafi.

In 2019, the number of visitors to Spain hit an all-time high of 83.7 million in a seventh straight year of records, Industry and Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said on Monday. Tourist arrivals rose 1% last year from a year earlier. "We address 2020 with optimism, because we have a strong and consolidated sector, capable of tackling the challenges ahead of us," Maroto said.

In a protest against the proposed pension reform, about 200 singers and members of the orchestra of the Paris Opera staged yesterday a street concert in front of Palais Garnier. 

The Swiss will on 17 May vote on a proposal that could dramatically limit immigration from the EU, six years after a similar referendum nearly destroyed relations with the bloc. Announced last Wednesday by country's government, the so-called “limitation initiative” calls for the country to revise its constitution to ensure it can autonomously handle its immigration policy.

The European Union will challenge the China-US trade agreement at the World Trade Organisation if it creates "distortions" in the market that harm EU companies, the bloc's envoy to Beijing said Friday.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who joined a meeting of the Visegrad Group in Prague on Thursday, indicated that he aimed to mediate between the western and eastern countries of the European Union, news wires reported.

The debate for Europe's future will not be easy, and maybe one conference, even if it lasts for two years, will not be enough. This showed the result of the three-hour debate at the EP plenary in Strasbourg on Wednesday, which was attended by Dubravka Suica, Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, and Nikolina Brnjac, representing the Croatian Presidency of the Council.

Estonian authorities have expanded their investigation into alleged money laundering through Danske Bank's local branch to cover transfers of up to $2bn, the Estonian prosecutor said on Thursday cited by Reuters. Widening of the investigation adds to pressure on Danske Bank, as the lender and its investors await a potentially much larger fine from US authorities for its involvement in one of the world's biggest money laundering scandals.

Poland and Germany will be the biggest beneficiaries of a new 100-billion-euro EU fund designed to help coal-dependent regions move towards a greener economy, European Commission data showed. All EU countries, except Poland, agreed last month they should transform their economies over the next 30 years to combat climate change and ensure they do not emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb.

In line with the European Green Deal and the EU's objective to become the first climate neutral economy by 2050, the Commission launched last Thursday a public consultation inviting all interested parties to comment on revised EU Emission Trading System State aid Guidelines in the context of the system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading post-2021, the EU press service reported.