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The head of the USKOK anti-corruption office admitted that it made an oversight by failing to notify the European Public Prosecutor’s Office about inquiries in the ‘Software’ case, saying the inquiries were no longer active and dismissing claims of a...

The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee will urge the European Commission to strengthen the monitoring and audit of EU funds for Bulgaria, including the Recovery and Resilience Facility. This is expected to happen at the committee’s next meeting on Thursday...

Germany may at first have been naive in some areas of cooperation with China, but should not sever all connections in reaction to growing tensions, Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Reuters.

On Wednesday (17 November) data from the Polish health ministry confirmed a sharp rise with 24,000 new COVID-19 cases and over 460 deaths. The new COVID-19 cases come as the Polish government faces criticism for its response to the pandemic....

Bratislava is stepping up its effort to fight disinformation, which many consider one of the main reasons for the country’s low vaccination rate, by setting up a centre to combat hybrid threats. The technical solution for the detection and assessment...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Germany should stop the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Europe if it wants to work for peace, linking the project to his country's handling of migrants on the Belarus border.

Portugal is one of the EU countries with the lowest inflation rates, Finance Minister João Leão said on Wednesday, stressing that the increase is considered to be temporary, and reiterated wage increases of 0.9% in the public sector. “Portugal remains...

The volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma eased Wednesday, but air quality is seriously deteriorating, prompting school closures and flight cancellations due to ash, on Wednesday. Experts said there was still no indication of when it will...

Nurses and doctors gathered in Rome on Wednesday to protest the lack of emergency department staff as the sector faces a deep crisis due to a shortage of about 4,000 nurses and doctors and poor working conditions. They said that...

The Russian foreign ministry published on Wednesday (17 November) a number of diplomatic letters it exchanged with Germany and France to try to show that its diplomatic stance on talks over east Ukraine has been misrepresented.

France’s council of ministers has dissolved the far-right group, Alvarium, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed after the weekly council of ministers’ meeting this Wednesday, EURACTIV’s partner Ouest-France reported. The group, founded by a former Front National activist (Marine Le Pen’s former...

Groundhog day in Berlin, as the situation at the Poland-Belarus border continues to worsen and caretaker Chancellor Angela Merkel once again called Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, whose government is not officially recognised by the EU. “Chancellor Merkel had another call...

A day after the cabinet decided to reintroduce some of the only recently lifted COVID-19 restrictions, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said that a further tightening of the rules remains possible. On Tuesday, ministers met to discuss rising COVID-19 case...

Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson has been given additional time to find support in parliament to form a government. Parliament Speaker Andreas Norlén has granted an extension until noon on 22 November. Last week, Ms Andersson succeeded Stefan Löfven as the...

The natural gas crisis is an artificial crisis created by the Russian Federation, through Gazprom, Romania’s interim energy minister Virgil Popescu told a business conference on Wednesday. All EU member states need to put on a united front to end...

As the number of cases reaches heights last seen during the spring COVID wave, Czech and Hungarian governments will soon face tough decisions. The epidemic is raging, the presidency of the Hungarian Medical Chamber said in a Wednesday statement, based...

“I took advice from the Dutch embassy, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Journalists’ Union. My decision comes after the threats I have received. There is not only a ‘post-modern’, digital witch-hunt going on in the country...

The European Commission is set to propose either a recommendation or a delegated act to extend the use of COVID certificated to travel in the EU, a source close to the matter told EURACTIV.com. The source added that the certificate...

Refugee women face lower levels of employment in Europe than their male counterparts or native-born females, according to a new report from Economist Impact. In response, 25 businesses have pledged to mentor over 1,200 refugee women and help them enter the workforce.

Georgia's jailed opposition leader and ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, is in a critical condition and lacks proper medical care, doctors said Wednesday (17 November).