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France's National Assembly adopted on Thursday (11 February) a series of articles and amendments for regulating hate online and on platforms and introduced steep penalties, as part of the country's much-debated bill on "reinforcing respect for the principles of the Republic". EURACTIV France reports.

British-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca has dismissed as untrue a statement by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš that he was offered to sign a separate deal with the company for COVID-19 vaccines.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU from the global perspective. You can subscribe here. /// EDITOR’s TAKE EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell’s trip to Moscow keeps haunting Brussels and has confirmed for many the desolate...

Reducing poverty and social inequality has become the main policy priority for EU citizens after the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey commissioned by the European Parliament has shown.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Czech parliament not extending the state of emergency, Austrian anti-corruption authorities raiding the house of the country's finance minister, and so much more.

Poland has welcomed the inclusion of hydrogen infrastructure in the European Commission’s recast regulation for cross-border energy networks. “It is critical for our region that this legislation is colour-blind and does not discriminate between different ‘types’ of hydrogen,” says Michał Kurtyka.

According to EU scenarios, the share of hydrogen in Europe’s energy mix is expected to grow from less than 2% today to 13-14% by 2050, as part of efforts to decarbonise transport and heavy industries. Central and Eastern EU countries...

Amsterdam has displaced London as Europe's biggest share trading centre after Britain left the European Union's single market, and picked up a chunk of UK derivatives business along the way, according to data published on Thursday (11 February).

The Head of the Human Rights Directorate of the Council of Europe, Christophe Poirel, and representatives of the European Court of Human Rights will hold talks next week with government officials and senior diplomatic officials in Bosnia on the implementation...

Croatia’s ministry of foreign and European affairs has rejected as unfounded a diplomatic note sent at the end of January by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign ministry related to the announcement of plans to declare an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in...

The Serbian government has secured 5,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for the immunisation of medical staff in Republika Srpska (RS), the office of the Serb member and president of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, announced Thursday. It was...

Following a gradual but persistent decrease in coronavirus infections and hospitalisations, Slovenia has entered the orange tier, with the government deciding on Thursday for a sweeping easing of restrictions, including the reopening of all stores and primary schools as of...

Female opposition MPs said on Thursday that they had collected signatures for an amendment to the Value Added Tax Act which proposes that VAT on sanitary pads and tampons, the so-called women’s tax, be reduced from 25 to 5%. That...

Pro-Russian businessman and politician Vesselin Mareshki, and anti-Russian nationalist Valeri Simeonov have signed an agreement to run together in Bulgaria’s upcoming parliamentary elections set for 4 April. This formation, which has come as a surprise, aims to garner at least...

Slovakia’s number of active cases could fall below zero on the Worldometer due to the way the authorities report the number of recovered patients, The Slovak Spectator reports.  Several analysts working with the Slovak coronavirus data have recently pointed out...

The Czech parliament has rejected the extension of the state of emergency proposed by the government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO, Renew). This means that the state of emergency, which is the legal basis for all restrictive measures applied...

There will be a recovery plan for the health of Poles, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced during a Patients Organisations Forum on Thursday, noting that it will cover five areas. The five areas include the national Oncology Network, the National...

Members of the Five Star Movement (M5S) – the largest party in the Italian parliament – decided via an online vote on Thursday to support the new government of prime-minister designate and former European Central Bank chief, Mario Draghi. The...

London has lost its place as Europe’s largest share trading centre to Amsterdam in the first sign that new EU-UK trade relations will hurt the UK’s financial services industry. About €9.2 billion worth of shares were traded on Amsterdam exchanges...

Given the spread of the more-contagious coronavirus mutations in the Czech Republic and Tyrol, Germany will be implementing further entry restrictions and temporary border controls, a spokesperson for the interior ministry said on Thursday. The measures, the first entry ban...