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Economy Minister Artane Rizvanolli has said the government needs additional time to decide on building the infrastructure for the distribution of US natural gas. The project has been arranged with Millenium Challenge Corporation, “an innovative and independent US foreign assistance agency...

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), made up of two autonomous entities,  will not become centralised on its EU journey, said Christian Schmidt, currently serving as the High Representative to BiH. “That concern among citizens is not justified and that will not...

As the Belgrade Pride march was taking place on Saturday, several hundred people assembled at an anti-globalist rally in downtown Belgrade, marching through the streets and chanting insults against Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Ana Brnabić in front...

Slovenia officially became a member of the club of Mediterranean EU countries henceforth known as EU Med, which has grown from seven to nine members with the inclusion of Slovenia and Croatia at a summit in Athens. Prime Minister Janez...

The key to solving the problem of violence against women lies primarily in the continuous education of those applying laws and regulations, gender equality ombudswoman Višnja Ljubičić has said ahead of the National Day of Combating Violence Against Women on...

Two journalists and an environmental activist were attacked last week while filming a documentary about illegal deforestation in Romania, Greenpeace has said. They were severely beaten by around 20 attackers, some of whom were later arrested. The equipment and the...

Bulgaria plans to organise a lottery with prizes for those who have been vaccinated, caretaker Tourism Minister Selta Baltova announced in an interview with Nova TV, when asked if her ministry would consider implementing tourist vouchers for vaccinations as the...

The National Highway Company will open a new highway in Slovakia on 26 September but will not include a crossing with highway D1, the main road connecting the west and east of the country. Drivers will thus have to find...

On the day of the first round of the opposition primaries, meant to choose one joint candidate for every electoral unit in next year’s election, the pre-election was halted early afternoon by the overload of the IT system that fed...

Czechia is offering a third jab to all people who completed their vaccination eight months ago, despite a recent report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) stating that there is no urgent need for booster doses for...

In the middle of a national debate about leaving the EU – also known as ‘Polexit’ – the European Council’s former president Donald Tusk offered his biggest opponent, the ruling Law and Justice (PiS), a hand in changing the nation’s...

The decision of a company that used the efood platform to change the status of its 115 employees to freelancers has triggered not the reaction of those directly affected, but also from the food industry as a whole and became...

Forestry should be based on local conditions and knowhow in each member state, the Finnish government’s ministerial committee on EU affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Sanna Marin, said on Friday, highlighting that forest policy belongs to the competences of member...

A UK-France defence summit planned for this week has been cancelled as the row over the controversial Aukus defence cooperation deal with the US and Australia continues. The meeting between Defence Minister Ben Wallace and French counterpart Florence Parly has...

The opposition in parliament has condemned Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for having called for greater fairness towards Poland and Hungary and for being soft regarding the respect of the rule of law. “I think that it is wrong that we are...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian repeated his anger and disappointment over the “major breach of trust” between France, Australia, and the US and called for greater unity within the European bloc, after Australia scrapped a submarine order with Paris...

A final deal on Europe’s new migration pact could be reached right after the French presidential elections due next year, EU Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas told EURACTIV Greece in an exclusive interview. “We are very close to the German election, soon after,...

Australia on Sunday (19 September) defended its decision to ditch a multi-billion-dollar order for French submarines and opt instead for an alternative deal with the United States and Britain, saying it had flagged its concerns to Paris months ago.

Following Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent visit to France for her last working dinner with President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, EURACTIV France takes a look at the past four "leadership couples" at the heart of Franco-German relations.

With the COP26 coming up, now is the time for the EU to engage with the UK to set an ambitious political objective that would help accelerate progress in developing offshore wind in the North Seas, write Simon Skillings and...