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Lawmakers are set to discuss a bill on Tuesday regarding a temporary tax on banks and energy companies’ profits that could lead to the collection of about €7 billion in 2022 and 2023, which experts have said could be “unconstitutional”....

Europe has the chance to be a global leader in the circular economy. Better, smarter waste management legislation and a clear, forward looking regulatory environment that encourages infrastructure investment will allow us to turn the vision into a reality.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday (12 September) called on the West to speed up deliveries of weapons systems as Ukrainian troops move to consolidate control over a large swath of northeastern territory seized back from Russia.

The Predator wire-tapping and spyware scandal that is currently shaking the Greek political scene was not on the menu during Monday’s dinner between French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The dinner organisation “goes back a long...

As he tours the four corners of his fractious new kingdom, Charles III faces the most testing task of reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

The Ministry of Justice of North Macedonia announced on Monday that it is seeking the extradition from Hungary of the former prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, who left for the country in 2018. Gruevsky was granted asylum in Hungary in November...

Belgium made no improvements in preventing corruption among lawmakers within the past year, a report published Monday by the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO reads. GRECO published its report on preventing corruption among parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors in Belgium on...

Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip this week to Central Asia where he will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday (12 September) recommended the authorisation of an adapted bivalent vaccine targeting the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in addition to the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 as a booster shot. 

Most COVID-19 vaccine contracts signed by the European Commission lacked specific provisions to address supply disruptions, and procurement processes could have been more scrutinised, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) found in a new report released Monday (12 September).

Over the past few days, Ukraine has forced Russia into a large-scale retreat, which could very well mark the turning point in the war. But this will also depend on the reactions to the setback in Moscow.

The global goal of reaching 1.5 degrees is unthinkable without biomass according to leading environmental scientist Michael Obersteiner, Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.   Speaking at the World Bioenergy Association’s media partnership event with...

As EU energy ministers negotiated measures proposed by the Commission to face lowering energy supplies last week, the French government said it is open to taking the matter further by putting a cap on Russian energy imports.

The Czech Presidency of the EU Council circulated a new partial compromise on the upcoming data law related to the conditions for cloud switching, interoperability requirements and cooperation on enforcement at the EU level.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on 14-16 September, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday (12 Settember), in what would be his first official trip to a foreign nation since China all but shut its borders...

There must be specific measures ensuring a just transition for smallholders towards sustainable, deforestation-free products that respect their rights and does not saddle them with extra burdens, write conservation activists.

The head of Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom called on Monday (8 August) for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to be made a military-free zone, warning of the risk of a Chornobyl-style nuclear disaster after the site was hit by shelling.

Tensions are mounting ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflicted on the world’s poorest people by climate change.

The leader of Italy's centrist Azione party said on 7 August it would leave a centre-left election alliance it formed with the Democratic Party (PD) last week, dealing a blow to the coalition's odds ahead of a 25 September ballot.

Awakening after a geopolitical slumber, European leaders should have the courage to think in the categories adequate to the times we live in, writes Mateusz Morawiecki in an exclusive op-ed.