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At the European Trade Union Confederation’s (ETUC) 50th anniversary Berlin meeting, labour leaders and EU lawmakers pushed for faster implementation of the Minimum Wage Directive and criticised the role of corporate profits in rising prices.

Talks on Germany’s future electricity market are heating up as all parties await a key analysis from grid operators amid looming threats from Brussels to split up the country’s wholesale market bidding zone.

When I was born, there were around 3.7 billion people on this planet. There are now over 8 billion. The solutions for how to feed them that I was taught in school are insufficient today. Alexandra Brand is the Regional...

Defying its own impact assessment, the European Commission refrained from proposing a full ban on sales commissions for financial advice in its Retail Investment Strategy (RIS), proposing instead a limited ban of inducements on advice-free sales and more cost transparency.

The EU Commission should not accept member states’ demands to reduce the EU budget, said MEP Siegfried Mureșan, as discussions around the EU budget for 2024, as well as the revision of the Union’s long-term budget, draw closer.

While Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is promoting the possibility of decoupling economic growth from CO2 emissions, he ignores other planetary boundaries which have already been exceeded, Chloé Mikolajczak, Adélaïde Charlier, Boon Breyne, Sébastien Hendrickx, and Louis Droussin argue.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the German Greens warning of an impending government crisis, Russia sharply criticising Oslo for letting the world's largest warship in its waters, and so much more.

Two large political gatherings will be held in Belgrade at the end of the week, with a mass rally to be held by President Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling SNS party on Friday and the anti-government “Serbia against violence” protests spearheaded by...

The former French president who recently lost his appeal against a conviction for bribery and corruption. The court of Paris upheld the lower court's decision, resulting in a one-year prison sentence for Sarkozy.

Slovenia’s parliament formally recognised Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians under Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1932-1933, as genocide, in a declaration supported by most political parties. Two coalition parties tabled the declaration after the European Parliament...

The United Arab Emirates has become a key trade hub for Russian gold since Western sanctions over Ukraine cut Russia's more traditional export routes, Russian customs records show.

Romania will support Ukraine as long as necessary and without time constraints, President Klaus Iohannis said after meeting his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in Bucharest Wednesday. As part of Steinmeier’s state visit from Wednesday to Friday, the two discussed European...

Albania registered a slight improvement in the Freedom House Nations in Transit 2023 report, although the accompanying country report reveals serious systemic problems yet to be resolved. The US-based NGO publishes an annual report that takes stock of democracy in...

The United Kingdom has pledged to continue contributing to the NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) Mission in Kosovo until at least 2026, Minister for Armed Forces James Heappey said during a visit to Kosovo this week. During a visit to Pristina,...

Czechia will refrain from the Council of the EU vote on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, the Czech government decided on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the Council Decision ratifying the Convention was approved by COREPER. The final Council vote should...

Portugal has expressed its intention to request €3.3 billion in additional loans under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), the European Commission announced on Wednesday, calling for the country to speed up implementation. “It is important to accelerate the implementation...

The Spanish Civil Guard arrested seven people Wednesday and is investigating three for allegedly buying postal votes in Mojácar just four days before Spain’s key regional and municipal elections. Sources close to the case reported that two detainees are on...

One of Russia's top spy chiefs on 23 May said the West had sown the seeds of its destruction by turning away from its core traditions and told it to "go to the devil" and stop interfering in global affairs.

The Czech Republic will buy 246 CV90 combat vehicles from Swedish BAE Systems Hägglunds in Örnsköldsvik in a SEK 22 billion (€2 billion) deal, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration revealed on Wednesday. For the Czech Republic, this is the largest...

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Finnish wind energy company Myrsky Energia announced a partnership Wednesday (24 May) that aims to generate some 1.8 gigawatts (GW) of onshore wind power over the next decade in Finland, a move that would increase the country’s current output by a third.