Daily brief
Winter weather has left around 1,200 households in the Austrian state of Carinthia without electricity.
The Swiss government has outlined a plan to combat the shortage of affordable housing.
A Swiss canton has made its first compensation payments to victims of a major fire in Crans-Montana.
Croatia has proposed a scheme to unlock 600,000 empty homes for affordable rentals.
A hospital in Split is the first in Croatia to introduce a blue light diagnostic system for bladder cancer.