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830 business people and nearly 550 local and international companies have used Serbia’s simplified entry procedure that allows them to enter the country without a PCR test, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce announced on Saturday.  Business people travelling to Serbia...

The first infection with the South African coronavirus strain has been confirmed in Slovenia, Health Minister Janez Poklukar has said. The patient is a doctor from Maribor who stayed in Namibia last week with several other persons from Slovenia and...

The sudden death of Milan Bandić, Zagreb’s Mayor for an uninterrupted 20 years and a controversial figure, is likely to have quite an impact on the country’s politics and has thrown the mayoral race in this spring’s local elections wide...

Bulgaria will miss the start of Poseidon 21, the first NATO multinational naval exercise of 2021, after a group of its sailors were infected with the coronavirus. The exercises, organised by the Romanian Naval Forces (FNR) and to be held...

Vetëvendosje leader and Kosovo’s Prime-Minister designate Albin Kurti, whose party won the 14 February election, has received two letters regarding Pristina’s decision to open its embassy in Jerusalem: one from Israel, and one from Turkey. In his letter to Kurti,...

Slovakia’s transport ministry believes it will persuade the European Commission that EU budget funds should be used for the country’s road infrastructure despite the Commission prioritising rail. For the self-governing regions, EU funds are a key means of financing the...

The Czech Republic could receive Russian Sputnik V jabs “as soon as possible”, President Miloš Zeman told CNN Prima News, confirming that after consulting with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for the COVID-19 vaccines...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday presented the country’s National Recovery Plan (KPO), the budget of which will be based on Poland’s share of the EU’s €750 billion post-pandemic recovery fund. With the plan only having a few weeks left...

If the planned amendment to the statutes of the European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament passes, making the suspension of an entire group of lawmakers possible, Fidesz will leave the faction, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told...

The Greeks “will suffer the most damage” because of the bilateral tensions and attempts to strengthen the Greek army, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has said. “As you know, Greek fighter jets disturbed the Cesme, which is conducting scientific research....

Finland will go into a partial three-week shutdown from 8 March as the country’s coronavirus situation has been deteriorating since Christmas, the Finnish government has announced. According to Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo, this will be the “final spurt to accelerate...

The Irish government should attempt to meet new coronavirus targets of 10 cases per day, the Social Democrats have said. Such a benchmark would help the country avoid a further lockdown in the near future, according to co-leader Róisín Shortall. Speaking...

Germany’s leftist party Die Linke elected Thuringian state party leader Susanne Hennig-Wellsow and Hessian parliamentary group leader Janine Wissler with clear majorities to lead the party into September’s parliamentary elections during its virtual party conference over the weekend. Hennig-Wellsow and...

The Portuguese secretary of state for European affairs has acknowledged that Portugal’s EU presidency will face difficulties in applying sanctions to Hungary and Poland for violations of the rule of law. Ana Paula Zacarias said Portugal has scheduled a debate on Article...

In a recently published Parliament survey, agriculture, food and fisheries have emerged as a major area of disagreement between Brussels and the EU capitals.

Russia said on Friday (12 February) it would be ready to sever ties with the European Union if the bloc hit it with painful economic sanctions, a statement that Germany described as disconcerting and incomprehensible.

Lobbying is not a dirty word. But some lobbyists are dirty... On Thursday, the European Parliament passed a resolution highly critical of the human rights situation in Kazakhstan and of the way the recent parliamentary elections were held there.

In a wide-ranging interview, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna outlined her country’s EU and NATO agenda, the tense relations with Russia, the issue of vaccines and geopolitics.

As the EU and African Union seek to make up for lost time in 2020 by accelerating talks on a new ‘strategic partnership’ covering political and economic cooperation one of the risks is that the talks take place in a vacuum at high political level with little regard for local communities.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “Big Tech may contribute to a rapid take-up of stablecoins, which could create systemic risks and even endanger monetary...