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Two different faces of Europe are clashing ahead of the crucial Italian elections on 25 September, with far-right candidate Giorgia Meloni telling Brussels that if she wins, the “fun is over”. Her rival centre-left Enrico Letta replied that such a...

The EU must finally activate the main resource to achieve energy sovereignty – energy efficiency, writes Carsten Müller.

As Sweden still awaits the final results of Sunday’s elections, the far-right Sweden Democrats are already eyeing ministerial positions despite other right-wing parties refusing to include them in government. Read more. The results of Sweden’s general elections should be finalised...

Poland could look into borrowing money from Asia should the European Commission not decide to finally send Poland funds from the recovery and resilience facility, Culture Minister Piotr Gliński told the pro-government Sieci weekly. The minister announced that Poland will...

Lawmakers are set to discuss a bill on Tuesday regarding a temporary tax on banks and energy companies’ profits that could lead to the collection of about €7 billion in 2022 and 2023, which experts have said could be “unconstitutional”....

Europe has the chance to be a global leader in the circular economy. Better, smarter waste management legislation and a clear, forward looking regulatory environment that encourages infrastructure investment will allow us to turn the vision into a reality.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday (12 September) called on the West to speed up deliveries of weapons systems as Ukrainian troops move to consolidate control over a large swath of northeastern territory seized back from Russia.

The Predator wire-tapping and spyware scandal that is currently shaking the Greek political scene was not on the menu during Monday’s dinner between French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The dinner organisation “goes back a long...

As he tours the four corners of his fractious new kingdom, Charles III faces the most testing task of reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

The Ministry of Justice of North Macedonia announced on Monday that it is seeking the extradition from Hungary of the former prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, who left for the country in 2018. Gruevsky was granted asylum in Hungary in November...

Belgium made no improvements in preventing corruption among lawmakers within the past year, a report published Monday by the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO reads. GRECO published its report on preventing corruption among parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors in Belgium on...

Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip this week to Central Asia where he will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday (12 September) recommended the authorisation of an adapted bivalent vaccine targeting the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in addition to the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 as a booster shot. 

Most COVID-19 vaccine contracts signed by the European Commission lacked specific provisions to address supply disruptions, and procurement processes could have been more scrutinised, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) found in a new report released Monday (12 September).

Over the past few days, Ukraine has forced Russia into a large-scale retreat, which could very well mark the turning point in the war. But this will also depend on the reactions to the setback in Moscow.

The global goal of reaching 1.5 degrees is unthinkable without biomass according to leading environmental scientist Michael Obersteiner, Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.   Speaking at the World Bioenergy Association’s media partnership event with...

As EU energy ministers negotiated measures proposed by the Commission to face lowering energy supplies last week, the French government said it is open to taking the matter further by putting a cap on Russian energy imports.

The Czech Presidency of the EU Council circulated a new partial compromise on the upcoming data law related to the conditions for cloud switching, interoperability requirements and cooperation on enforcement at the EU level.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on 14-16 September, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday (12 Settember), in what would be his first official trip to a foreign nation since China all but shut its borders...

There must be specific measures ensuring a just transition for smallholders towards sustainable, deforestation-free products that respect their rights and does not saddle them with extra burdens, write conservation activists.