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An infantry company from the Romanian armed forces is to be sent to Kosovo to join the 80 soldiers already there as part of the NATO-led KFOR operation. The decision was made in response to a request from Supreme Allied...

The campaign leading up to the EU elections next June will put our democracies to the test, said Czech President Petr Pavel, who warned against populism and short-term political gains at a plenary session of the European Parliament on Wednesday....

The YouTubers suspected of having illegal contact with underage girls will be investigated, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced Wednesday, after it was revealed that several content creators were involved in attempted sexual relations with minors. Morawiecki’s announcement came after...

A United Nations-mandated inquiry into what investigators say are continuing atrocities in Ethiopia faces closure after a UN website on Wednesday (4 October) showed that no motion has been received to renew it.

The Spanish government has succeeded in blocking a regional law that would legalise further irrigation around the already-water-scarce Doñana National Park, instead aiming to support sustainable practices financially.

The Council for the Catalan Republic, chaired by separatist leader Carles Puigdemont from his self-imposed exile in Belgium, will hold an internal vote later this month on whether secessionist parties should vote to reinstate Spain’s acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez....

French President Emmanuel Macron pitched his bid to revise the constitution to extend and simplify the use of referendums on Wednesday and reiterated his goal of securing a constitutional right to abortion despite needing backing from other parties to make...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will agree bilateral initiatives with Belgium, Bulgaria and Serbia on Thursday (5 October) aimed at tackling organised crime linked to illegal migration, his office said.

Slovakia’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Igor Bratchikov to explain claims made by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin two days before the elections, that there was a US plot to put progressives in the lead. In the statement,...

The Italian government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is seeking European solutions to stop irregular migratory flows while at the same time issuing a far-reaching decree to bring in migrants to fill gaps in the labour market without providing...

Pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane and the populist ITN party are preparing a vote of no confidence in the Bulgarian government before local elections on 29 October. The two formations are also looking for help from the other pro-Russian party in the...

Germany’s liberal FDP, a member of the country’s three-way coalition government, is calling for an immediate yet temporary halt to EU legislation that would impose additional red tape on businesses, such as the European Green Deal.

EU enlargement should not have fixed deadlines, but its institutions must be reformed to accommodate new members, particularly when it comes to decision-making, but it is also essential newcomers do their homework, the Portuguese government said on Wednesday. “It is...

EU interior ministers agreed to classify 'non state actors' such as NGOs on a par with Russia and Belarus in causing increased levels of migration, as they agreed their position on a new crisis management law.

On 5 October, MEPs will vote on the appointments of Hoekstra as Commissioner for Climate Action and on Šefčovič as Executive Vice-President for the Green Deal.

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

On 5 October, MEPs will vote on the appointments of Hoekstra as Commissioner for Climate Action and on Šefčovič as Executive Vice-President for the Green Deal.

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

Leaders from some 50 European countries will attend the third European Political Community (EPC) summit in Granada, followed by an informal meeting of EU leaders on Friday. What's on the agenda?

The UN has called on central banks to institute "more pragmatic policies to tackle inflation" as large parts of the world are "crushed" by debt, and wealthy countries risk another decade of austerity and recession.

House prices, mortgages and rents are strangling citizens across Europe, depriving 895,000 people of access to housing, as the cost of living crisis, the fallout from the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic put ever-more pressure on people's pockets.

The load factor of nuclear reactors – their output in relation to their theoretical energy generation capacity – needs improving, CEO of electricity and gas supplier E-Pango Philippe Girard told an event on France's energy mix organised by Euractiv on Monday (3 October).