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Spain’s socialist PSOE party is “negotiating” with parliamentary groups the terms of a future amnesty law for those involved in the October 2017 secession attempt in Catalonia, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez admitted on Thursday. Speaking to the press before...

Britain's opposition Labour Party hailed a "seismic" victory in an election for a UK parliamentary seat in Scotland, beating the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) in a sign of its recovery in the country before a national election expected next year.

Skewed data was used to determine the impact of the EU's renewable energy directive, a scientific paper has claimed, raising questions about the model employed by the European Commission to assess policy options on biofuels.

The prospect of EU enlargement by 2030 is “if” the countries are ready, insisted outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew), reacting to European Council President Charles Michel’s suggestion in September that candidate countries and the EU should be ready for...

French national health agency Santé Publique France will monitor COVID-19, influenza and bronchiolitis, all three acute respiratory infections, at the same time, the health agency announced on Thursday, ahead of the rapidly approaching season of respiratory viruses. While surveillance data...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. The EU is showing off its muscles by developing trade defence tools and ramping up its investigations and risk assessments. But whether those muscles are good for...

EPP party leader Manfred Weber is battling to prevent a likely loss of the long-held dominance of his home party, the CSU, in Bavaria’s regional elections on Sunday, with results predicted to dent its power in Germany and the EU.

The EIB has a critical role to play in addressing global challenges—who takes over as its president will make a huge difference to the direction it takes. Hear from candidates in interviews conducted by the Center for Global Development.

Albania is hosting Western Balkan foreign ministers, several EU member states and EU enlargement commissioner Oliver Varhelyi in Tirana on Friday ahead of the Berlin summit, with calls for EU action against Serbia set to be high on the agenda....

The German government has remained largely unimpressed with Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), making anti-German sentiment one of the cornerstones of its election campaign. The national conservative PiS is facing a tight race in the upcoming Polish general...

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (5 October) held out the possibility that Russia could resume nuclear testing for the first time in more than three decades and might withdraw its ratification of a landmark nuclear test ban treaty.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged support to Ukraine as long as necessary, including reconstruction, but warned of Italy’s limited resources and changing public sentiment after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Granada on Thursday. Meloni met with  Zelenskyy at...

Amid growing threats, Belgium will place a strong focus on ensuring the continuation of the European Green Deal and the protection of LGBTIQ+ rights during its EU Council presidency in the first half of next year, Deputy Prime Minister Petra...

A Russian strike killed at least 51 people gathered for a wake in an eastern Ukrainian village Thursday (5 October), provoking a wave of outrage from Western leaders for what a UN official called a "horrifying" attack.

'What is illegal offline should be illegal online' has been the EU's guiding concept in regulating the internet. Yet, politicians and experts continue to question whether ending online anonymity is the missing step towards reaching this ideal.

A Polish ruling-party MEP has defended his Azerbaijan-friendly vote, even as EU support slips in the wake of its "ethnic cleansing".

GRANADA, SPAIN - While showing unity and steadfast support for Ukraine took centre-stage as some 50 European leaders met for their third summit on Thursday (5 October), the margins were dominated by the lack of progress in mediating Europe's other crises.

Around 10,000 people in Brussels on Thursday took part in a nationwide strike against the 'Van Quickenborne bill' on restricting protesters' freedoms.

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) warned on Thursday (5 October) that the Cyber Solidarity Act could increase member state reliance on EU funding, as well as create troubles in information sharing and add complexity to the European cybersecurity landscape.

While novel antibiotics are critically important in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the lack of security and incentives for research and development (R&D) is setting development back, the pharmaceutical industry warns.