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Citizens across Europe are currently struggling with the challenge of skyrocketing energy prices. Over the last year, the prices of coal have risen nearly three times, the prices of natural gas in European markets have risen even ten times in this period.

Vaccinated people will need to show a negative test to enter sports venues and cultural events despite the country's high vaccination rate, said Prime Minister António Costa. Portugal "is not as well" as I wanted, he added.

A former medal-winning trampolinist, Annalena Baerbock is no stranger to aiming high. But the 40-year-old's next leap will be her biggest yet as she becomes Germany's first woman foreign minister.

The investigation into the environmental damage caused by a billionaire close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will not be pursued further, prosecutor general Péter Polt’s reply to opposition MP Bernadette Szél revealed on Thursday, Telex reported. The Viresol factory, co-owned...

Men must take responsibility to end sexist behaviour and gender violence, according to a group of celebrities, including filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who spoke at an event marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Thursday, EURACTIV’s...

Italy’s rate of femicides has risen 8% from 106 in 2020 to 109 in 2021, even though the year is not yet over, the state police reported. Women were most likely to be murdered by their partner, ex-partner, or a...

Dublin has been recognised as a runner-up in this year’s European Capital of Innovation (iCapital) awards at this week’s European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit in Brussels. The iCapital awards “identify urban ecosystems that connect citizens, the public sector, academia, and...

Asylum applications to the UK have reached their highest level since 2004, according to Home Office figures released on Thursday, as the UK faces up to a new migration crisis. A total of 37,562 asylum applications were received in the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued an urgent warning on pandemic management on Thursday (25 November) to the new government coming in to succeed her, imploring it to take quick, decisive measures as the country's total death toll passed 100,000.

Some European leaders had long been preparing for the challenge of Angela Merkel’s departure. One of the outcomes is the Quirinal Treaty, the “French-Italian Enhanced Cooperation Treaty”, that French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will sign on...

Following the announcement on Wednesday that a “traffic light” government had been agreed, the social democrat SPD, the Greens and the liberal FDP must now announce a cabinet of 17 ministers split between the parties. The Greens, traditionally split into...

Most Greeks (66%) favour extending mandatory vaccination to groups of workers who come into contact with a lot of people, according to a poll for Greece’s Skai TV. However, making vaccination obligatory for the country’s police remains a challenge for the...

The European Parliament has called on Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria to immediately ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women. In Visegrad countries, the convention remains a tricky political issue, mainly because of disinformation...

During the first months of 2021, Kosovo’s border police repatriated 1530 migrants from the Middle East and Africa back to Albania after crossing the border illegally, while thousands more have travelled and moved on to Europe undetected. According to data...

The Council adopts a general approach on the proposal for a Digital Services Act.

The Council adopts a general approach on the proposal for the Digital Markets Act.

European Council President Charles Michel delivered his opening speech as EU coordinator at the 13th ASEM summit held via videoconference

The off-the-record technical briefing on disinformation trends and campaigns in relation to the crisis in Belarus will take place on 26 November at 11.00.

EU ministers gathered in Brussels on Thursday (25 November) to rubber-stamp the new ambitious rules for the digital space. However, significant divisions remain.

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has launched a forum to bring together policymakers, researchers and entrepreneurs involved in innovation, with officials warning that Europe needs more investment in research and innovation.