European Union

Commentators from Greece, Portugal and the Czech Republic use the election of the new CDU leader Armin Laschet as an opportunity to take stock and look ahead at what awaits Germany and Europe in the post-Merkel era. Their assessments of the chancellor's 16 years in office differ widely.

MEPs expressed broad support for the common EU approach to fighting the pandemic and called for complete transparency regarding contracts and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

MEPs expressed broad support for the common EU approach to fighting the pandemic and called for complete transparency regarding contracts and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

Engineers and geologists have strongly criticised green groups who last week claimed that carbon capture and storage schemes – for reducing fossil fuel emissions – are costly mistakes. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

The European Parliament reaffirms its will to continue to engage with young generations of UK citizens and EU27 citizens resident in the UK.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

The European Parliament reaffirms its will to continue to engage with young generations of UK citizens and EU27 citizens resident in the UK.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

Some 59 percent of Europeans thought China will become more powerful than the US in the next 10 years and 60 percent said the American political system was "broken" due to outgoing president Donald Trump's antics, according to a survey in 11 EU states for the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank out Tuesday. Poles and Hungarians were the most pro-American. The survey was in December, before the Capitol riot.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria's restaurants and nightclubs threaten to flout coronavirus restrictions, the newly elected CDU chair not being that popular in the polls, and so much more.

The US Embassy in Pristina has welcomed the unveiling of the strategy and action plan for the Functional Review of the Rule of Law and urged the new government, once formed, to adopt the final documents and implement all recommendations...

US law enforcement is investigating whether a woman took a laptop from US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the 6 January siege of the Capitol and tried to sell the device to Russian intelligence.

US Ambassador to Albania, Yuri Kim, welcomed the agreement between Albania and Greece to jointly fight illegalities at their border crossing points, saying it was “good to see our friends working together to solve shared problems.”  Greece and Albania on...

The European Union's proposed carbon border charge is essential to the survival of its own industries and the bloc will impose the levy on non-EU competitors unless they commit to lowering their emissions, the bloc's climate policy chief said on Monday (18 January).

There was “electoral engineering” during the elections in Mostar and it allegedly involved the Central Election Commission (CEC) of BiH, Dragan Čović, the leader of the biggest Croatian party in BiH, HDZ BiH, tweeted on Monday. In his tweet, Čović...

Serbia’s economic achievements in 2020 are unfounded and are more in the domain of political propaganda than reality, Belgrade School of Economics Professor and former Serbian National bank governor Dejan Šoškić told the Nezavisnost (Independence) trade union’s web portal on...