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President Charles Michel issued a statement on Eurogroup's agreement on comprehensive economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Under the guise of looking after local food producers in the conditions of the coronavirus crisis, Bulgaria's ruling politicians are seeking to push through protectionist measures against imported goods.

Looking back thirty years, one can find images like those seen today on the Spanish-Portuguese border. Crossroads under surveillance, roads shut down… images that only the elderly remember and that will soon be forgotten again. Thousands of Spaniards and Portuguese...

In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU should introduce a conditionality vis-à-vis third countries which should force them to change their poor dietary, farming, hunting and food practices, writes Dick Roche.

Following the Eurogroup’s agreement on the economic response to the coronavirus, European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis on Friday (10 April) welcomed the €540 billion package in an exclusive interview with EURACTIV.com

Slovakia has closed off several Roma settlements in the eastern part of the country after reports of a cluster of coronavirus cases in five of them, highlighting difficulties faced by Europe’s largest ethnic minority during the pandemic.

Hungary needs more ventilators and intensive care hospital beds as part of its efforts to weather the coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday (10 April), as the government reported the single biggest daily increase in infections.

Whether for personal travel or cellular phones or petrol-fueled cars, roaming is good and common. So why do we make it so much harder for EVs? ask Jesse Morris and Dietrich Sümmermann. Jesse Morris is chief commercial officer of Energy...

European finance ministers have agreed to a post-crisis economic recovery plan worth €500 billion, which opens the door to jointly issued debt, France's finance minister claimed on Thursday (9 April).

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Epidemiologist and Crisis Headquarters member Branislav Tiodorovic said Serbia is dealing with “a [coronavirus] shockwave that is sure to last until (Orthodox) Easter [19 April], which is an optimistic estimate and depends on [people] keeping social distance.” “If we all...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has used the coronavirus pandemic to declare a state of emergency, suspend the work of parliament and seize even greater power, while psychologically terrorizing Serbian citizens, threatening them with police, making daily public appearances, adopting draconian...

The government has prepared a package of temporary measures potentially reaching almost 8% of GDP, intended to mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the economy. On Thursday, the government redistributed extra budget funds worth HRK 2.1 billion...

One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt. As well as the saltshaker, in that instant, they shared the new coronavirus, scientists have since concluded.

The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Spain jumped above 15,000 although the daily fatality rate dropped to 683 on Thursday, down from 757 the previous day, the Spanish health ministry said. There were 5,756 new infections and 4,144 recoveries in...

Normally, thousands of people from Asia, Ukraine and Russia arrive in Finland for the summer months to collect crops in the fields and greenhouses. Because of the coronavirus lockdown, the Finnish agriculture sector is now facing a severe lack of...

Belgium’s National Security Council, which decided on the lockdown as well as its extension until 19 April, will meet again next Wednesday to evaluate whether to potentially prolong them until 3 May. Read also: Flanders chooses EU Green Deal as...

The French competition watchdog has given Google three months to find an agreement on the remuneration of the journalistic content it broadcasts on its platform, in application of the French law which transposed the EU copyright directive. This law established...

The Austrian Red Cross has already published a smartphone app which lets users collect all their contacts with other app-users. Should a user become infected, all his recent contacts are informed. Early on, data protection activists voiced concern that using...

The Romanian government has decided to ban exports of wheat, corn, rice, sunflower and other grains, but also vegetable oil, sugar and various bakery products for as long as the Covid-19 state of emergency is in force. Romania is one...