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Ukraine and Poland called in the ambassadors from each other's countries on 1 August as a dispute escalated after a foreign policy adviser to Poland's president said Kyiv should show more appreciation for Warsaw's support in its war with Russia.

France's nickel production is significantly lagging behind its Indonesian and Chinese counterparts, and must be both refinanced and restructured to meet EU critical raw materials independence goals, a new government report reveals.

Denmark and Sweden countries are at the centre of a heated debate over religious sensitivities and freedom of expression which have sparked concerns over the potential risks to national security.

France will evacuate French and European citizens from Niger starting on Tuesday (1 August), its foreign ministry said, days after a junta seized power in the west African country.

Threats to Sweden have increased after recent Koran burnings, the country's government said on Tuesday (1 August), adding that it would strengthen border and internal controls and give police wider authority to stop and search people as a result.

The production of non-alcoholic beer in Germany almost doubled over the last decade, according to new data published on the occasion of this week’s world beer day, while alcoholic beer consumption has seen a slight downward trend.

The general supply of uranium to France, a key raw material in nuclear fission, is not at risk, nuclear conglomerate Orano said, after Nigerien authorities announced they would freeze French exports.

Berlin has been making “good progress” in its talks with the European Commission on the potential scope of national subsidies for hydrogen power plants, according to German Economy and Energy Minister Robert Habeck.

With our summer holidays coming up, I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on the past year and share some news about the coming one.

With the rise of anti-gender campaigns and movements, the ninth anniversary of the Istanbul Convention has never been more important, especially in the current climate of backlash to gender equality in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Forming a government in Spain amidst complex negotiations and a polarised political landscape poses a challenging task, with the potential for repeat elections - there is a need for vigilance, as Vox poses a severe threat to Spanish democracy, writes Laura Gaspar.

After a period of calm following the Coronavirus pandemic, discussions on EU public finances are back on the table and are expected to liven up the last months of 2023, with heated debates over EU and national budgets.

A coalition of Belarusian investigative journalists based abroad has identified officials cooperating with the Russian authorities in children’s abductions from the occupied territories of Ukraine and their indoctrination.

The United States on Monday (31 July) imposed sanctions against four top Bosnian Serb officials, including the Serb member of the country's presidency, for undermining a US-sponsored peace deal that ended the Balkan country's war in the 1990s.

Economic sanctions have been the biggest headache for Russia's business elite since the start of the war in Ukraine, but a drone strike in the heart of Moscow's financial district is forcing companies to think about their employees' safety.

The junta that seized power in Niger last week detained senior politicians on Monday (31 July), their party said, defying international calls to restore democratic rule, while fellow military rulers in West Africa expressed their support.

Troops at the spearhead of Ukraine's counteroffensive say a battle last week along the front in the southeast proved to be tougher and bloodier than expected, with plans going awry and an enemy that was well-prepared.

Thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets on Monday (31 July) to protest violence against women after a harrowing case of a teen cut hundreds of times shocked the Balkan nation.

The Niger coup marks the end of a largely-failed French military ‘Barkhane’ operation in the Sahel, broadly due to a lack of resources, and an underlying sense of neocolonialism, according to experts EURACTIV spoke with.

Bulgaria benefits from an EU derogation allowing it to import Russian oil for its only refinery owned by Lukoil. However, the financial and political interests served by this derogation are not those of Bulgarian consumers, but those of Lukoil and the Kremlin, write Martin Vladimirov and Ruslan Stefanov.