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Spain’s regional and municipal elections on Sunday have confirmed the disappearance of the centre-liberal party Ciudadanos (Renew Europe) from the political landscape, with record-low results followed by the party’s decision not to participate in the snap national elections scheduled for...

Kosovo police confirmed on Wednesday that three of their vehicles were attacked in Zvecan, resulting in broken windows and one injured police officer, as well as attacks on journalists and their vehicles, as Prime Minister Albin Kurti leaves the possibility...

To boost the uptake of recycled plastic in packaging material, the European Commission will define a method to measure, allocate and communicate recycled content. It will set a precedent and have further implications also for construction materials, batteries, vehicles and, most likely, textiles.

The temporary trade restrictions on four agricultural products from Ukraine to five European 'frontline' countries need to be prolonged at least to October, according to the EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski.

The EU is expected to formally ratify the Istanbul Convention on Thursday despite its rejection by a number of member states, including Czechia. As EURACTIV.cz reported previously, Czechia is mulling ratifying the convention in the future but wants to abstain...

Prime Minister Edi Rama said that the Serbian army, currently near the border of Kosovo, has zero power and is there only for internal Serbian political reasons, comparing it to the idea of the Mexican army showing up at the...

With the early general elections in Spain less than two months away, the socialist party (PSOE/S&D) wants to exploit fear of an alliance between the centre-right Popular Party (PP/EPP) and the far-right Vox (ECR), which they liken to a “mythological...

A joint declaration to cooperate on green hydrogen production was signed by Irish Climate and Environment Minister Eamon Ryan and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Education and Research Minister Mario Brandenburg on Wednesday.

Drug shortages have increased at an alarming rate over the past five years in France,  from about 800 in 2018 to about 3,000 today, the chairwoman of the Senate Inquiry Committee on Drug Shortages, Sonia de La Provôté, said on...

The Polish government will not cooperate with the forced migrant relocation scheme proposed by the Swedish Council of the EU Presidency, announced the country’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. Stockholm upheld the EU Commission’s proposal regarding the reform of the bloc’s...

France's national hydrogen strategy update, due at the end of June, is set to focus on industrial decarbonisation, but the move risks destabilising the budding sector, the country's leading hydrogen lobby group warned on Wednesday (31 May).

The body of a retired Mossad agent was flown back to Israel on Wednesday (31 May), three days after he died along with two Italian intelligence officers and a Russian woman in a boating accident in northern Italy.

European security is expected to loom large as 48 European leaders gather in Moldova on Thursday (1 June), for a summit staged as a show of diplomatic force vis-à-vis Russia.

Right-wing MEPs have tried toppling a compromise deal on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ahead of a crucial European Parliament vote on Thursday (1 June).

If businesses are to take corporate sustainability seriously, they will need to add relevant sustainability expertise to their boards, argue Nicolas Sauviat and Sanjini Jain.

EU lawmakers have reached an agreement on the most significant overhaul of the bloc’s fisheries monitoring rules in a decade, marked by the contentious relaxation of rules on misreported fish catches.

The EU border management agency Frontex produces untrustworthy risk analyses on migration due to the ‘low reliability of the data collected’, an investigation conducted by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) found on Wednesday (31 May).

On Wednesday afternoon, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili addressed the European Parliament in Brussels.

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On Wednesday afternoon, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili addressed the European Parliament in Brussels.

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President Metsola led MEPs in a minute of silence to remember the victims of the floods in Italy, at the opening of the 31 May - 1 June session in Brussels.

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