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The war in Ukraine must stop before the country can join the NATO military alliance, said Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo at the Second European Political Community summit in Moldova on Thursday. The European Political Community (EPC) is a...

The German Defence Ministry is mulling a revision of current military staffing targets set by the previous government as it believes it may not reach them despite the current three-way government’s pledge to ramp up investment. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius...

Bulgaria is set to end the two-and-a-half-year-long political crisis, as negotiations between GERB and the coalition “We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria” (PP-DB) could result in forming a government which will be voted on by parliament next week. Talks...

The US Senate on Thursday (1 June) passed bipartisan legislation backed by President Joe Biden that lifts the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, averting what would have been a first-ever default.

Poland will not join the new COVID-19 vaccine deal negotiated by the EU on behalf of the member states, according to Polish Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, who called Pfizer’s demand for payments for the undelivered doses outrageous. The EU Commission...

Marine Le Pen’s far-right party formed a special relationship with the Russian regime as both parties gradually got closer on policy, geopolitics and values, according to a parliamentary report set to be published on Monday. The committee of enquiry into...

The Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has called on its government to defend Hungary after EU lawmakers in the European Parliament questioned Hungary’s ability to run the EU Council presidency despite lawmakers from all other Austrian parties, including in government,...

The United States is seeking to secure supplies of TNT in Japan for 155mm artillery shells, as Washington rushes weapons and ammunition to Ukraine for a counteroffensive against Russian forces, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Kosovo and Serbia held talks on Thursday (1 June) under European pressure to resolve a political crisis that has spiralled into violence over the past week, with France and Germany pressing them to take swift steps to reduce tensions.

Germany is now in compliance with EU nitrate pollution rules and equipped to further tackle high pollution levels in groundwater, the European Commission announced on Thursday (1 June), ending a decade-long back-and-forth with Brussels and the threat of hefty fines.

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Germany and Austria have pushed back against a European Commission proposal to oblige car drivers over the age of 70 to renew their driving licence every five years, an effort aimed at stopping those no longer fit to drive from using their cars.

The economy, climate change and Europe’s security will be at the heart of the campaign by European liberals at next June’s European elections, according to leading party officials.

Belgium and Ireland expressed support for tighter environmental regulations on private jets on Thursday (1 June) at a gathering of EU transport ministers, joining a push led by Austria, France, and the Netherlands to tackle business aviation emissions. 

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. If post-growth activists want to win the argument for tomorrow’s economic system, they need to find a way to incorporate geopolitics into their models. In last week’s...

Warsaw-based Frontex is likely violating rights by data dumping migrant testimonies with the EU's police agency Europol, according to a data protection authority.

Next year, the EU will have a new anti-money laundering agency. Madrid has offered its tallest skyscraper rent-free, but other cities are also in the running.

If the EU can map out a strategy to "de-risk" economic and trade relations with Beijing, it can do so on human rights.

If the war in Ukraine was a book, we could be approaching the showdown stage, followed, hopefully, by an epilogue. The showdown, of course, is the Ukrainian offensive, expected anytime.

Despite last-minute pushback against key parts of the text, EU lawmakers adopted a common position on the proposed EU rules to make companies accountable for human rights and environmental violations along their value chains, opening the way for negotiations with member states.