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Magdalena Andersson, Sweden’s former prime minister and leader of the opposition Social Democrats, is open to using the military to combat gang violence, she said on Thursday, as the number of gang-related deaths in the country continues to rise. After...

Lithuania is ready to take in migrants who have entered Italy illegally if the European Union’s solidarity mechanism is activated, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said on Thursday. In June, the EU Council agreed on a new migration pact aimed at...

The Netherlands is the EU’s largest importer of products with a high risk of deforestation from third countries, including soy, palm oil and cocoa, the country’s statistics agency CBS reported on Thursday. Brazil is the largest third-country exporter of deforestation-linked...

A bill to reform Belgium’s abortion laws, particularly by extending the legal period for abortion and decriminalising it, was tabled by two Ecolo-Green (EELV) MPs on Thursday. Séverine de Laveleye (Ecolo, EELV) and Eva Platteau (Groen, EELV) presented this project...

A Serbian daily newspaper and its editor received death threats on Thursday (28 September) after the country's president denounced their coverage of the recent clashes in Kosovo.

The European Commission is pressing ahead with plans for a new law modelled on the US Foreign Agents Act in a bid to tackle Russian and Chinese influence amid warnings that the draft bill could end up hitting civil society...

The right mix of short and long-duration storage is key to answering the challenges ahead while phasing out fossil-fuel solutions. All innovative technologies should be considered for tenders, contingent upon a mandatory requirement: the demonstration of a high technology readiness level.

French power giant EDF's future investments could exceed €20 billion per year, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the country's energy transition minister, said on Thursday (28 September), adding that the exact level was the subject of discussion.

The Abraham Accords have transformed the region, shaping a brighter future in the Middle East and beyond, while opening new doors for collaboration with the EU, writes Haim Regev.

Kazakhstan’s support is vital for enforcing sanctions against Russia and ending the war, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said as he met Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Berlin on Wednesday, as EU countries seek to win over Central Asia as a key...

French small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are ready fight climate change as long as there is no “regulatory tsunami”, the French Federation of SMEs warned ahead of introduction of the EU’s new extra-financial reporting requirements.

The Bulgarian parliament abandoned its intention to ban the import of Russian oil by the end of this year and decided that this should happen by the end of October 2024.

Slovakia is on the brink of a critical parliamentary election set for Saturday, with a campaign that underlined a stark divide between nationalist sentiments, represented by former socialist prime minister Robert Fico, and the forces of liberalism embodied by the...

To uphold sanctions against Russia, Finland has launched round-the-clock border checks to prevent Russian vehicles from entering its territory via the six cross-border roads from Norway. Norwegian and Finnish customs officials confirmed to the Norwegian press that additional resources had...

Filing a case against the US over its massive green subsidy push in the form of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) could ultimately do more harm than good, despite strong criticism that it violates...

The leaders of nine Mediterranean and southern European countries, including France's Emmanuel Macron and Italy's Giorgia Meloni, meet Friday (29 September) in Malta for talks set to focus on migration.

Europe’s net-zero goals will almost certainly not be achieved without significant deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, writes Chris Davies. Suggesting that use of CCS should be limited even before it has begun is hardly the best way to solve the climate crisis, he argues.

Ministers will reach a deal on a key migration law "in a few days", EU Commissioner for migration Ylva Johansson told journalists following a meeting of EU home affairs ministers on Thursday (27 September), despite significant disagreements persisting on key parts of the file.

Poland in 2020 imposed a near-total ban on abortion, triggering mass protests — and today the demands for access to safe abortion continue. On International Safe Abortion Day, dozens gathered in Brussels calling for solidarity among member states.

Spokespersons for Parliament and for political groups will hold a briefing on the 2 - 5 October plenary session on Friday at 11.00, in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

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