European Union

Ryanair v Commission
State aid
State aid to SAS during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Court of Justice definitively dismisses Ryanair’s actions concerning the loan guarantees put in place by Sweden and Denmark in April 2020

Commission v United Kingdom
Taxation
The Court of Justice orders the United Kingdom to pay a lump sum penalty of € 32 million for having failed to prohibit the use of marked fuel in private pleasure boats within the time limit prescribed by the Commission

The US on 27 September placed sanctions on entities and people based in China, Turkey, the UAE and Iran for aiding the Iranian attack drone program, which Washington accuses of supplying such weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine.

This week, Euractiv’s Beyond the Byline podcast looks into the hotly contested report on the regulation of sex work.

Ukraine's reconstruction and recovery pose a massive challenge to Kyiv's government and the international community, but it is also an opportunity to build back better, write Andriy Yermak and Heidi Hautala.

While national and European debates remain stuck in the details about appropriate gestational time limits or waiting periods, as well as the tug-of-war between progressive, centrist, and anti-gender forces, it is high time to embrace a vision and determination to guarantee reproductive justice for all, writes Julia Lux.

In today's Capitals, France responds to Australia's calls for a faster EU strategy on critical raw materials, Norway's justice minister meets his Swedish counterpart to discuss gang violence, and so much more.

Albania, for the first time, stated it does not align with the foreign policy statements of the European Union, with regards to the ongoing dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, facilitated by the EU, considering the recent terrorist attack in the...

The Kosovo government has published two pieces of evidence that Serbia was behind what the EU called a ‘terrorist attack’ in northern Kosovo over the weekend, calling on the international community to take action. In the early hours of Sunday...

Plans for Bulgaria’s massive €800 million project to build a battery park to store ‘green’ electricity, included in the country’s recovery plan and one of the world’s largest, have been scrapped, the government announced on Wednesday. Instead, the country will...

Slovenia has decided to send more troops to its border with Croatia, just weeks after increasing police presence in a specific area along the border and refusing to rule out a full reintroduction of police checks at the EU’s internal...

Romania’s ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) are reluctant to pass legislation recognising same-sex marriage, despite the Strasbourg-based European Human Rights Court calling on Romania to urgently change its laws. On Monday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human...

Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft's email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from US State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday (27 September).

Wopke Hoekstra's proposed appointment as the next EU Climate Commissioner risks undermining the bloc's Green Deal, argues Anja Hazekamp.

Two far-right Republika’s social media posts in which AI is used to mimic the voice of Progressives leader Michal Šimečka and spread falsehoods, like plans to raise the cost of beer, were eventually removed from YouTube but remained available on Facebook.

The Czech government has approved the purchase of 24 F-35 fighter jets, adding to a growing group of European countries waiting for the advanced aircraft to be delivered. The US State Department already greenlighted the sale. “The first F-35s will...

Italy, France and Germany have agreed on a common line to tackle the current migration crisis in Italy, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, with Berlin reportedly expected to...

The leader of the centre-right Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, failed in his first attempt in parliament to become Spain’s next prime minister on Wednesday, although he will have a final chance on Friday, which is also likely to fail....

One of Europe’s flagship projects is faltering. The passport-free Schengen area is under a continued assault from a growing number of countries that maintain or have re-introduced internal border checks, citing migration or terrorism worries.

A former head of the breakaway ethnic Armenian government in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested by Azerbaijan on 27 September as he tried to escape into Armenia as part of an exodus of tens of thousands of people.