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Migration, energy and trade were all discussed between the Libyan government delegation, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her counterparts in Rome on Wednesday.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is trying to dispel widespread rumours about her potentially replacing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg later this year following her visit to Washington on Monday. While many viewed her visit as a necessary step if...

Telecom networks are the engine of the green and digital transitions. Massive transformations are ongoing: network operators becoming tech comm companies. Corresponding investments require a modernised regulatory ecosystem, including a fair contribution by few large actors to network costs.

The European Commission laid out its mental health strategy on Wednesday (7 June), emphasising a cross-sectoral approach, to be achieved through 20 flagship initiatives, backed by €1.23 billion in funding.

With the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, there's an opportunity to harness the power of investment for truly sustainable activities. But to do this, it must not allow the 'BlackRock exemption' and instead cover institutional investors and asset managers.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) admitted that his efforts to mitigate impact of gas extraction in the province of Groningen were insufficient during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, where he ignored demands to step down.

Austria will send police officers and soldiers to bolster Moldova’s crisis management structures by addressing challenges such as disinformation and cyber attacks as part of the EU Partnership Mission in Moldova. In April, EU foreign ministers approved the launch of...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will reportedly enforce spending cuts across the federal ministries unless ministers justify their opposition after the Green and liberal coalition partners clashed over the topic. Liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s proposed spending cuts to plug an...

The French National Assembly approved a €413 billion military budget bill for 2024-2030 at first reading on Wednesday, with extra lines of credit for nuclear and ammunition to Ukraine. Following days of uncertainty, the military budget bill was broadly approved...

Britain will host the world's first summit on artificial intelligence later this year, in a bid to broker a common approach by countries to limit the technology's potential doomsday risks while harnessing its potential, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday (7 June).

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki vowed to resist attempts to close the Turow lignite mine, a subject of conflict between Poland and Czechia, despite a court order ruling the suspension of work. In its ruling delivered last week, the Warsaw...

Russia is increasingly seen as an adversary or rival, a view held by some 64 percent of respondents, an increase from about a third of respondents when the same question was posed in a 2021 poll.

Cleaners demonstrated in front of the European Parliament. They are fed up with night shifts, not feeling safe at work, not getting enough sleep and the difficulty of juggling their working hours with their personal lives.

Finalising the EU-Mercosur agreement is a priority for the EU and the upcoming Spanish EU council presidency, ahead of the summit with Latin America and the Caribbean countries to be held in Brussels on 17 and 18 July.

EU home affairs ministers are gathering in Luxembourg to thrash out an agreement on core asylum and migration reforms. But expectations of an agreement, following their meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday remained mixed.

Around 10,000 young people from the EU and beyond will discuss Europe’s future, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and the 2024 European elections.

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Around 10,000 young people from the EU and beyond will discuss Europe’s future, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and the 2024 European elections.

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

The commission also wants to address burnout at work, as around half of European workers consider stress to be common in their workplace and it contributes to around half of all lost working days.

Authors Samira Rafaela MEP and Tom Theuns present as facts the extreme views of a politically-motivated campaign in the European Parliament. By doing so, they undermine the very foundations of the European Union.

As the elected leader of Belarus and wife of a political prisoner, forced into exile, we have to rely on the solidarity of the international community to apply meaningful pressure for change in Belarus.