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A Kosovo border police car was ambushed with firearms on Tuesday morning near Zubin Potok, close to the border with Serbia, the latest in a string of attacks in the last 10 days. None of the police officers inside the...

The next Open Balkans Summit will be held in the first half of June in Ohrid, said North Macedonia Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski following his online meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday....

The US Embassy has condemned the actions of three political parties in the House of Peoples of the BiH parliament on Tuesday, calling them a “collective failure” in fulfilling “their constitutional responsibilities”. “HDZ BiH (the biggest Croat party) with SNSD...

Serbia’s attitude towards the Ukraine war, the Belgrade-Priština dialogue, EU integration and bilateral relations were discussed at the meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried in Belgrade, Vučić’s...

Re-elected President Emmanuel Macron will, as promised, soon name his new Prime Minister in charge of "ecological planning", though with the legislative election just around the corner, the cards could soon be reshuffled. EURACTIV France reports.

Anyone that expected a regulatory thunderstorm during 2021 and 2022 in order to achieve climate neutrality in Europe will not be disappointed. The Fit-for-55 package has proven a very complex mechanism that should put the EU at the forefront of climate mitigation efforts.

Robert Golob, who defeated Prime Minister Janez Janša in the general election on Sunday, is “pro-Russian”, according to Janša who tweeted following foreign media reports about the election. “You really called those pro-Russian guys ‘liberals’? Check your sources, please,” Janša tweeted,...

Romania aims to become the main hub of stability and security in the region as it wants to become heavily involved in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction, parliament Speaker Marcel Ciolacu said after a visit to Kyiv. Ciolacu, the Romanian social-democratic party...

Bulgaria needs to lift its veto on North Macedonia’s EU integration by June, said EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi, although signs from Sofia show this is unlikely to happen. The inclusion of Bulgarians as an officially recognised minority in the...

Reducing dependence on Russian natural gas requires halting subsidies on natural gas in central heating, said the State Secretary of Slovakia’s economy ministry, Karol Galek, as Czechia does the same. Natural gas was considered a transition fuel in Slovakia, Czechia...

The government should not pursue one of its flagship policies of cutting utility prices, said Sándor Csányi, CEO of Hungary’s largest lender OTP Bank, adding that he expected high energy prices to persist. High energy prices are expected to persist,...

Washington on Tuesday (26 April) said it would hold talks on a roughly monthly basis in Germany with allies inside and outside NATO to coordinate bolstering Ukraine's defence capabilities as it battles Russia's invasion.

The defence ministry is “willing to continue supporting” Ukraine, Defence Minister Helena Carreiras said on Tuesday, adding that “Portugal continues to analyse” Ukraine’s equipment needs. Carreiras participated on Tuesday by videoconference in a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Consultative Group held in...

Andalusia will hold early elections on 19 June, the President of the region, Juanma Moreno, of the centre-right PP, has announced, paving the way for a possible coalition government with the far-right if his party does not obtain a majority....

Wholesale electricity market gas prices will go from €90 to around €50 in May to benefit Iberian customers, according to a “political agreement” with the European Commission, Spain and Portugal announced on Tuesday. The agreement, which has yet to be...

Danish-Swedish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan wants to hold election rallies in Uppsala and Stockholm on 1 May despite the violence his rallies caused over the Easter weekend, press agency TT has reported. Paludan attracted worldwide attention after he attempted to...

Finland should do more to tackle the hate speech the small Jewish community faces in the country, the European Commission and its antisemitism watchdog have said. On her recent visit to Finland, the EU’s antisemitism watchdog Katharina von Schnurbein pointed...

Dublin will establish a new subcommittee to oversee the government’s response to the war in Ukraine, modelled on the body launched to manage the COVID-19 crisis. The committee will be made up of senior officials, including the Taoiseach Micheál Martin,...

UK imports from the EU fell by 25% compared to those from elsewhere in 2021, according to new research from the LSE Centre for Economic Performance published on Tuesday. “It appears the UK simply stopped selling a lot of products...

Russia halted gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract on Wednesday (26 April), in a deepening of the rift between the West and Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.