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Opposition parties in Kosovo criticised the ruling Vetëvendosje party for interfering in the Albanian elections by supporting electoral campaigns of some independent candidates. A number of Vetëvendosje officials, including MPs and a government minister, were seen in Albania last week,...

The office of Montenegro’s chief EU negotiator has sent to the European Commission draft amendments to the law on the prosecutor’s office, the cabinet of Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović announced, according to Mina news agency. The proposed amendments to...

The Jama underground ore mine near the eastern Serbian town of Majdanpek, belonging to Chinese company Zijin Copper, has been closed over environmental issues. Operators have been ordered not to do anything without approval of the mining ministry and told...

The opposition Social Democrats (SD) have requested a session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee to grill Prime Minister Janez Janša and President Borut Pahor about media reports concerning an alleged non-paper on the potential redrawing of borders in the...

President Joe Biden’s planned announcement of a complete US withdrawal from Afghanistan by 11 September aims to close the book on America’s longest war, as critics warn that peace is anything but assured after two decades of fighting.

The issue of people who went missing during Croatia’s 1991-95 Homeland War must be resolved before Serbia joins the European Union, President Zoran Milanović said on Tuesday as he met with representatives of veterans, special police forces in the Homeland...

As demand for AstraZeneca’s vaccine falters, authorities in Romania have announced that anyone wanting to receive the vaccine can now do so without a prior appointment in centres that have it in stock. Around half of million people are registered...

The Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association has warned the government not to take a sharp stance against Russia because the country could suspend flights to Bulgaria as it did for regular and charter flights to Turkey until 1 June due...

Slovakia, which has been under a strict lockdown since December, will start easing its COVID-19 restrictions since its pandemic situation has slowly been improving, the government announced Tuesday. From Monday, all shops, services, hotels, and swimming pools will reopen. It...

The Czech government is facing turbulent times after Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček was fired on Monday and Health Minister Jan Blatný was replaced by Petr Arenberger just last week. Although Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Hamáček, who proposed...

“Hungarian companies will be invited and are expected to take part in the business forum” for the reconstruction of Nagorno-Karabakh organised by the Turkic Council in Baku next month, the international organisation’s secretariat told EURACTIV in emailed comments on Tuesday....

Despite earlier promises to submit a bill regulating social media giants in spring, Hungary is set to delay its plans to rein in tech companies, sources told EURACTIV’s partner Telex. Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced at the end of...

Greece signed a deal on Monday with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to use the EU financier’s resources for the National Recovery and Resilience Fund. The EIB will provide technical assistance to the finance ministry for evaluating high potential investments...

With a €1 million plan, the Irish government will only be footing the bill for Irish Erasmus students having to go into mandatory hotel quarantine, leaving non-Erasmus students out of the plan. The Irish state is expected to pay hotel...

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all currently part of the Russian electricity network since gaining independence in the early 90s, are set to join the Continental Europe electricity network in early 2026, meaning they will soon be leaving the Russian one....

Czech lawmakers rejected plans to require supermarkets to sell mainly domestically produced food on Tuesday (13 April), removing the measure from a bill on food quality to avoid clashes with the European Commission over EU single market rules.

People aged under 60 who have been given a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Germany will receive a different jab for their second dose, federal and regional health ministers agreed Tuesday (13 April).

Together with climate change, the world is also facing a biodiversity crisis, which has failed to capture the same attention. But efforts made by governments to tackle the climate crisis show that action is possible when there is sufficient political will, writes Janice Weatherley-Singh ahead of a UN convention on biological diversity.

The European Parliament will examine the European Commission’s sizeable expenditure on big consultancy firms, recently revealed by EURACTIV.com, and propose a different approach to limit their influence in structural reforms, the chair of the Parliament’s budgetary control committee has said. 

Spain plans to invest 68% of its share of the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund in ecological transition and digitalisation between 2021 and 2023, EURACTIV’s partner EuroEFE reports.