Новости за 06.04.2018

A country that has only 20 percent of the population of Greece and virtually no military forces cannot reasonably be considered a security concern.

The US internet giant's massive data breach will be discussed in the EU, while Europe will find out whether Viktor Orban and his party are re-elected for another term to lead Hungary.

'I am not sure if Facebook took all the necessary steps to implement change,' says justice and consumer affairs commissioner Vera Jourova. 'This is a threat to our democracy and electoral processes.'

As Scotland's whisky producers look for an alternative to feed their salmon with, one company offers omega-3 rich algae to do the trick.

Catalan ex-leader Carles Puigdemont has left German jail after his €75,000 bail was paid. He is not allowed to leave Germany until the Schleswig-Holstein state court decides on whether to extradite him to Spain on charges that he misused state funds to organise the illegal independence referendum. Meanwhile in Brussels, spokesman Alexander Winterstein said nothing changed in the European Commission's stance that the Catalan dispute is an internal Spanish matter.

The European Commission has scheduled a phone call with Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Hungary's premier Viktor Orban has inspired 'illiberalism' across central Europe and far-right politicians in the West. His expected re-election this Sunday will further reinforce his standing as a symbol for being tough on Europe's political mainstream.

German court decides that Catalan ex-leader cannot be extradited on the charges of 'rebellion' – effectively intervening n the legal affairs of Spain.

Cyprus will file official protests over the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant - to be built in the earthquake-prone Akkuyu area, a few dozen kilometres of the east Mediterranean island - government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou told Cyprus News Agency (CNA) on Thursday. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin launched the start of construction of the Russian-built plant on Wednesday, to be completed by 2023.

MEP and former Belgian PM, Guy Verhofstadt, will be among participants in the first 'March for Europe' to be held in Brussels on Saturday (7 April), according to social media announcements from French president Emmanuel Macron's movement. The march starts near Place Flagey at 10AM. The succession of events is intended to discuss a European 'reset' ahead of European Parliament elections in 2019.

Around 45,000 people took to the streets in Bratislava and other Slovakian cites on Thursday demanding the resignation of police chief Tibor Gaspar over his handling of the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak. It was the latest demonstration since protesters forced prime minister Robert Fico to step down in March. The murdered journalist was investigating Italian mafia ties to Fico associates and his Smer Social Democracy party.

Whistleblower Herve Falciani, a former HSBC employee who exposed massive tax evasion via Swiss accounts, was Wednesday arrested in Spain but released again on Thursday. Falciani had fled to Spain to avoid jail in Switzerland. The arrest of the whistleblower comes at a sensitive time in Swiss-Spanish relations when Swiss courts are considering a Spanish extradition request for Catalan separatist Marta Rovira, who fled to Switzerland earlier this year.