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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković visited the Pelješac Bridge construction site in Komarna, close to the southern Adriatic tourist hotspot Dubrovnik, on Tuesday. He noted that the bridge will be connected with span structures by October this year, ensuring the...

Political parties in Bulgaria cannot accept donations from businesses, the Constitutional Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday. The law so far allowed companies with state and municipal participation to send donations to politicians for their election campaigns, which the court has...

The national recovery and resilience plan has received positive feedback in Brussels, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Tuesday following his first in-person meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel since he...

The European Commission will check whether the conflict of interest rule has been repeatedly breached in Czechia after Commission auditors confirmed conflict of interest allegations levelled against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Friday, daily Hospodářské noviny reported. “The European...

The Council of Ministers adopted on Tuesday a draft law on the ratification of the EU’s own resources needed to mobilise the Reconstruction Fund, which Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called a legal act of historical scale and compared it to...

More than 60,000 Greeks aged 30 to 39 booked an online vaccination appointment within a few hours after the booking platform became available for them. Their appointments are planned to begin this week, with the Greek government expecting vaccination rates...

Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Tuesday he expected Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) to be up and running in the second half of the year. The Portuguese EU Council presidency intends to reduce the deadlines for...

Following the revelations about the 2014 explosion at the ammunition depot in the Czech Republic and the subsequent expulsion of Russian and EU diplomats, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid has called for more solidarity with the Czech Republic and for EU...

After much deliberation, Finland’s Constitutional Law Committee ruled on Tuesday that because of constitutional implications the EU’s €750 billion COVID-19 stimulus package requires a two-thirds majority in the Finnish parliament. The committee’s decision, which was decided by a margin of...

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster has dismissed claims that her leadership of the party is under threat after reports of internal unrest over Foster’s handling of the Brexit process.  Several DUP constituency...

After two months of drafting, Belgium’s new “pandemic bill” has been approved by the Council of Ministers and is ready to be submitted to parliament. By submitting the draft, the government escapes the penalties imposed by the court of first...

The so-called non-paper on Kosovo, published by Pristina daily Koha Ditore, contained “many things” that the Serbs would find pleasing, but also a section on recognition of Kosovo which would “horrify the Serbs,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Tuesday....

Three European journalists – two Spanish and one Irish – have been killed in an attack on an anti-poaching patrol in Burkina Faso, officials said Tuesday (27 April).

Albania's prime minister declared victory in parliamentary elections on Tuesday (27 April) and claimed a record third term in office, but the opposition has refused to accept the result.

Deep cuts in methane emissions, including from the fossil fuel industry, are urgently needed to slow the rate of global warming and keep it beneath a threshold agreed by world leaders, according to a UN report due to be released next week.

Two of Europe’s leading aviation companies have cast doubt on hydrogen's ability to replace kerosene in the near future, arguing that scaling up sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) is the best option to decarbonise flying.

Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people costs Eastern European countries almost 2% a year in economic growth, a coalition of dozens of global companies promoting LGBT+ inclusion said on Tuesday (27 April).

The Portuguese EU Council presidency is working so that the process of releasing the €750 trillion from the EU's post-pandemic Recovery Fund can be shortened by at least one month.

The Spanish government has approved a €70 billion recovery plan to be funded with EU resources, which has the long-term aims of shifting the country's economy away from over-reliance on services and boosting digitalisation. EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Experts from the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam have finished the first phase of their trip to Russia as they prepare to rule on whether its Sputnik V coronavirus-vaccine is safe. "Stage one's over ... we're waiting for reports and are getting prepared for inspections of production facilities," Russian health minister Mikhail Murashko said Tuesday. EMA staff arrived 10 April and their production-site inspections would start 10 May, he added.