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The next government should serve its term to the end, said outgoing Prime Minister António Costa, calling for ‘legislative stability.’

The liberal Centre Party called on Tuesday for Sweden to increase its defence spending from the NATO-recommended 2% to 3% of the country’s GDP less than a week after joining the alliance.

Where a woman lives, her ethnicity and her socioeconomic status all influence her risk of getting cancer, speed of her diagnosis, the treatment she receives and, ultimately, her likelihood of survival. At MSD we are committed to addressing this inequality.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both clinched their parties' nomination on Tuesday (12 March), kicking off the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years.

French parliamentarians are sharply divided on whether or not to ratify the EU-Canada free trade agreement, following farming protestors' heavy condemnation of trade measures that they argue create unfair competition.

In a non-binding vote on Tuesday (12 March), French MPs adopted the bilateral security agreement between Paris and Kiev. La France Insoumise (LFI, The Left) voted against, while Rassemblement National (RN, ID) abstained.

Russia remains in a state of combat readiness and is fully ready for a nuclear war, but not "everything is rushing to it" at present, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Wednesday (13 March).

EU leaders are next week expected to call for new sanctions targeting Belarus, North Korea, and Iran over their support to Russia's war efforts in Ukraine as the bloc attempts to further crack down on circumvention by third countries

Ukraine pounded targets in Russia on Tuesday (12 March) with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world's biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.

Germany should return to conscription from 2025, the parliament's armed forces commissioner said on Tuesday (12 March) as the defence ministry is working on a new model inspired by Nordic countries.

Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's long-time aide Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer in the Lithuanian capitol Vilnius on Tuesday (12 March), former Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said.

On the latest episode of Euractiv’s Today in the EU, we’re looking into the AI Act vote in Strasbourg - and why the lack of reference to how AI will be used in the defence sector is causing some concern.

Israel was using starvation to wage war in Gaza, with the lack of aid being a "manmade" disaster, the EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell told the UN Security Council on Wednesday (13 March), in one of his strongest remarks since 7 October.

EU member states are set to close a deal on a €5 billion Ukrainian military aid fund, as the United States on Tuesday (12 March) signed off a $300 million stop-gap military aid package for Kyiv.

To achieve the EU's target of having at least 42.5% renewable energy by 2030, with a goal of reaching 45%, a significant boost in wind power capacity is essential. This report examines the wind industry and its transition into 2024.

Although Polish access to novel cancer medicines has improved significantly, Poland still lags many EU countries for availability of innovative therapies, retaining one of the longest waiting periods in Europe between drug registration and reimbursement, according to a new report.

Amid a startling surge in whooping cough cases in Czechia, health experts and officials have raised the alarm over the escalating situation, the Czech State Health Institute describing it as the worst outbreak in a decade.

On Tuesday, Parliament and Council negotiators reached an informal deal strengthening EU member state cooperation in the cross-border investigation of traffic offences.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

On Tuesday, Parliament and Council negotiators reached an informal deal strengthening EU member state cooperation in the cross-border investigation of traffic offences.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

The European Parliament legal affairs committee (JURI) unanimously decided that Eva Kaili's immunity defence is inadmissible in the context of the Qatargate investigation, because everything was done 'by the book', a note from the parliamentary committee, seen by Euractiv, states.