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The European Commission has called for the depoliticisation of sport after Serbia prevented Kosovo’s team from participating in the 2021 World Boxing Championship being held in Belgrade. Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said that “the Kosovo Boxing Association [should] not be treated differently...

Political commitment to decentralisation is observed in North Macedonia, but more clarity in law and practice is needed to further improve the decentralisation reform in the country, according to a recommendation adopted by the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional...

An EU source close to the issue has told EURACTIV that the European Commission is mulling partly backing off on its demands and may concentrate on just one - abolishing the Disciplinary Chamber. 

Serbian virologist Dr. Milanko Šekler said on Wednesday (27 October) that only an around-the-clock use of the COVID-19 pass would “make sense”. But Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić stated that such passes would not be needed for the time being....

Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on Wednesday (27 October) admitted he should have acted "differently" after accusations he plagiarised swathes of his university thesis.

Croatia would have more benefits than disadvantages from euro adoption, President Zoran Milanović was quoted as saying after he met with his Maltese counterpart, George Vella. “This is a country which has been inside for a long time, it has...

Interest in vaccination against COVID-19 has increased significantly over the past week, amid discussions about making green passes mandatory for some activities, and overfilled hospitals. The number of doses administered in Romania has remained above 100,000 per day over the...

Representatives of the Czech government, employers, and trade unions have refused to impose any restrictions on unvaccinated workers, agreeing on Wednesday that it is impossible to effectively enforce such a measure. The priority for the upcoming weeks should be the...

The health ministry is suspending the planned admission of patients to hospitals to open additional beds for the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Intensive care units, in which over 600 patients are currently being treated, will have their capacity increased...

CEDR Call 2021 is open as of 28 September 2021 with two research programmes: Climate Change Resilience and Remote Condition Monitoring of Physical Road Assets. A public briefing session will be held on 09 November 2021 at 10:30 - 12:00 CET.

On Wednesday (27 October), Greek health officials reported 3,651 new coronavirus cases, a reduction from 4,165 the day before, and 63 deaths, a recent high. Half of the country is now at the “red” epidemiological level while vaccinations remain stagnant...

The European Union on Wednesday (27 October) said it was giving Moldova €60 million to help cope with a gas crisis after Russia's Gazprom hiked prices.

The government has a “clear conscience” after the Budget vote and is ready to continue governing or go to elections, depending on the president of the Republic’s decision, Prime Minister António Costa said on Wednesday evening. Costa spoke to journalists outside parliament...

Spain’s Constitutional Court declared on Wednesday (27 October) that the second state of alarm decreed by the Spanish government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is unconstitutional. Four of the court’s ten judges opposed the decision. The Spanish government decreed the second...

Assisted by the trade and industry ministries, Finnish and Swedish companies embark on an ambitious joint mission to conquer global markets. Behind the new strategy revealed in Stockholm on Tuesday is the realisation that Nordic companies are often too small...

Pandemic restrictions are unlikely to be reintroduced despite growing concerns over infection rates in Ireland, government ministers have indicated. At a Tuesday evening meeting, the Cabinet subcommittee on COVID-19 heard from health officials that the virus was moving in a...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s AgriFood Brief, your weekly update on all things Agriculture & Food in the EU. You can subscribe here if you haven’t done so yet. This week: EURACTIV’s agrifood team digs deeper into a controversial vote in the...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “Digital is the make or break issue” –          Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission at the...

As diplomatic snubs go, the announcement by the United States, Britain, and Australia that they would establish a security partnership for the Indo-Pacific which would also help Australia acquire US nuclear-powered submarines - scrapping a $40 billion French-designed submarine deal in the process - is hard to beat.

In a paper discussed by EU finance ministers on 11 September, Bruegel think tank made the case for protecting green investment as part of the upcoming Stability and Growth Pact review. Bruegel’s Zsolt Darvas, one of the report's authors, told EURACTIV that most of the investment needed to reduce CO2 emissions would come from private sources.