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It is necessary to encourage women’s participation in technical and high-level jobs by overcoming educational barriers from an early stage, as well as professional barriers, while guaranteeing digital lifelong learning for women. Eliminating the gender gap will boost prosperity at...

Six dancers from the National Opera of Ukraine will be able to continue their careers at Spain’s National Dance Company (CND), which welcomed them on Wednesday, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported. Kateryna Chupina, Yelyzaveta Semenenko, Anastasiia Hurska, Aleksandra Berozkyna, Anastasiia Kovalevsk...

The war in Ukraine has lowered growth forecasts, but the Italian government will do whatever it takes to look after families and support industry, Prime Minister Mario Draghi told reporters after the Council of Ministers approved the Economic and Financial...

Labour unions took to the streets of Athens on Wednesday, protesting over rising energy costs, soaring prices of essential goods and lack of protection for the vulnerable. The opposition calls for snap elections while the IMF warns of new austerity...

Interview with Marta Barandiy, founder of civil society network Promote Ukraine and editor-in-chief of Brussels Ukraїna Review, and Maryna Yaroshevych, head of advocacy at Promote Ukraine The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) is the opportunity for the EU...

Food delivery, ride-hailing, and transfer apps owned by Russia’s Yandex should be removed from e-commerce platforms available in Europe, according to Lithuanian economy minister Aušrinė Armonaitė and defence minister Arvydas Anušauskas. The reason for the call is the threat to...

Norway could accept 60,000 Ukrainian refugees this year, the country’s Directorate of Immigration (UDI) said while presenting scenarios for the arrival of Ukrainian refugees on Wednesday. “We must take into account that the flow of refugees can last a long...

The Danish government cannot prevent those born after 2010 from buying nicotine products because of EU rules. The desire for future generations to be nicotine-free was put forward for the first time this year by the Danish government in the...

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said he does not understand why only three Russian spies working undercover at the Russian embassy in Stockholm were expelled from Swedish territory. “The foreign ministry should have expelled more Russian diplomats than the...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Ireland to push the EU to introduce more stringent sanctions against Russia during an address to Ireland’s parliament on Wednesday. Speaking to lawmakers, Zelenskyy thanked Ireland for the humanitarian and financial support it...

Several hundred Ukrainian children are beginning classes in temporary classrooms set up with teachers and equipment in the Netherlands. As of Monday (4 April), temporary education facilities have opened where Ukrainian children who have fled from the war can now...

Austria does not want to follow the lead of numerous EU states in kicking out Russian officials, and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has voiced criticism of individual national measures. Various EU member states are in the process or have already...

France announced an increase in its annual contribution to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the mobilisation of technical and human resources to assist investigations into the Bucha massacre. After the Council of Ministers on Wednesday (6 April), government spokesman...

Bulgarian will donate 2,000 helmets and 2,000 bulletproof vests to Ukraine to be used by its civilian citizens, Lena Borislavova, the head of the cabinet of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, announced on Wednesday, adding that a decision on granting financial...

Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OĽaNO) will be visiting war-torn Kyiv on Thursday with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell after he refused to join central European leaders who visited Kyiv in March....

Portugal is open to possible membership requests from Sweden and Finland to join NATO, but this is an internal debate within both countries, Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho said on Wednesday in Brussels. “Portugal has a very close, very friendly...

Both Finland’s government and industry are determined to get rid of Russian energy without delay following reports that Russian forces committed war crimes near Kyiv. Finland’s annual crude oil and petroleum products imports from Russia are worth around €3.5 billion....

Germany has to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, otherwise, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin might go much further than Ukraine, Gerrman Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht warned in a parliamentary debate on Wednesday. “Someone who acts like Putin does not...

Labour shortages caused by Brexit and accentuated by the COVID pandemic have badly affected businesses across the food and farming sector and could cause ‘permanent’ damage, UK lawmakers stated in a report published on Wednesday (6 April).

Europe is closing its doors to adult relatives of the Russian regime in reaction to its brutality in Ukraine, including president Vladimir Putin's daughters.