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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will agree bilateral initiatives with Belgium, Bulgaria and Serbia on Thursday (5 October) aimed at tackling organised crime linked to illegal migration, his office said.

Slovakia’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Igor Bratchikov to explain claims made by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin two days before the elections, that there was a US plot to put progressives in the lead. In the statement,...

The Italian government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is seeking European solutions to stop irregular migratory flows while at the same time issuing a far-reaching decree to bring in migrants to fill gaps in the labour market without providing...

Pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane and the populist ITN party are preparing a vote of no confidence in the Bulgarian government before local elections on 29 October. The two formations are also looking for help from the other pro-Russian party in the...

Germany’s liberal FDP, a member of the country’s three-way coalition government, is calling for an immediate yet temporary halt to EU legislation that would impose additional red tape on businesses, such as the European Green Deal.

EU enlargement should not have fixed deadlines, but its institutions must be reformed to accommodate new members, particularly when it comes to decision-making, but it is also essential newcomers do their homework, the Portuguese government said on Wednesday. “It is...

EU interior ministers agreed to classify 'non state actors' such as NGOs on a par with Russia and Belarus in causing increased levels of migration, as they agreed their position on a new crisis management law.

On 5 October, MEPs will vote on the appointments of Hoekstra as Commissioner for Climate Action and on Šefčovič as Executive Vice-President for the Green Deal.

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

On 5 October, MEPs will vote on the appointments of Hoekstra as Commissioner for Climate Action and on Šefčovič as Executive Vice-President for the Green Deal.

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Leaders from some 50 European countries will attend the third European Political Community (EPC) summit in Granada, followed by an informal meeting of EU leaders on Friday. What's on the agenda?

The UN has called on central banks to institute "more pragmatic policies to tackle inflation" as large parts of the world are "crushed" by debt, and wealthy countries risk another decade of austerity and recession.

House prices, mortgages and rents are strangling citizens across Europe, depriving 895,000 people of access to housing, as the cost of living crisis, the fallout from the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic put ever-more pressure on people's pockets.

The load factor of nuclear reactors – their output in relation to their theoretical energy generation capacity – needs improving, CEO of electricity and gas supplier E-Pango Philippe Girard told an event on France's energy mix organised by Euractiv on Monday (3 October).

The European Parliament is lifting objections to press ahead on EU-wide asylum reforms with the council, representing member states.

Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron made a promise. "By the end of the year we will regain control of the price of electricity, at the French and European level," he said on 25 September. Euractiv France looks at how this could be done.

The Slovak social democrat party of Robert Fico appears to be edging towards the margins of the pan-European socialist family as the row over his party's pro-Russian stance continues to escalate.

The French government dissolved the fundamentalist Catholic association Civitas on Wednesday (October 4), stating that the group seeks to "wage war against the Republic" by spreading anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and conspiracy theories.

Germany, famous for its careful political culture, has long resisted the rise of populism. But with two state elections looming and the far-right at an all-time high, ever more parties, including the mainstream ones, are tapping into populist rhetoric. West...

The political appetite for EU sanctions on Serbia is growing, after Belgrade's response to a dramatic attack in Kosovo. Croatia has joined eight other EU states calling for action, according to diplomatic sources.

As part of its efforts to secure EU accession for the Western Balkans, the German government is sending for the first time an agricultural attaché to the region to help it implement the often highly technical EU legislation in the field.