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The French push to include nuclear energy and natural gas in the EU taxonomy on sustainable finance threatens to derail the Green Deal, MEP and rapporteur Bas Eickhout warns.

A French government minister reportedly pressured the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe to remove the video, posted on Twitter, of young women wearing the hijab as part of a wider campaign to combat hate speech against Muslim communities.

The EU Commission still withholds the names of its vaccine negotiators, amid protests from MEPs and civil society. Investigate Europe has been able to find several of them.

With five months to go before the first round of the French presidential election, EURACTIV France spoke to French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign manager, MEP Manuel Bompard. Last time around, it took the French far-left until the final stretches...

In 2020, 37,592 Albanian citizens were granted a first residence permit in a European Union country, according to statistics published by EUROSTAT. This is in addition to the more than 345,510 that applied for the US Green Card Lottery in 2020 and...

Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti has said he will not allow the “Bosnianization” of Kosovo, in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday. Kurti said he is against the establishment of a Serbian state within Kosovo, similar to Republica Srpska...

Iran agreed Wednesday (3 November) to resume talks on 29 November with world powers on reviving a nuclear deal after a five-month gap, with the United States urging a quick resolution.

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski has called for early general elections to be held quickly, so that North Macedonia will have a fully legitimate government. Forming new parliamentary majority would not help resolve existing problems but lead to futile negotiations which...

The UN Security Council adopted a Resolution extending EUFOR’s mandate, but without mentioning the High Representative and his Office. The EUFOR mission Althea was extended for the next 12 months with all 15 votes in favour. The compromise is visible:...

Serbia and Montenegro, should maintain the closest relations, Serbian PM Ana Brnabić said on Wednesday. “I hope that this first visit opens a new chapter in the relationship with the government of Montenegro, and that aside from the restoration of...

Slovenia is in the midst of the worst surge in coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic. The country reported 3,456 new cases for Wednesday, a new record, while 18 patients with COVID-19 died, the highest daily death rate...

Politicians in Romania started a new round of negotiations with the aim of forming a coalition, more than two months after the centre-right coalition collapsed. For the first time since USR voted for the censure motion that led to the...

The Croatian National Bank (HB) said it would develop and implement its own climate strategy, include climate and environmental risks in its supervisory expectations, and encourage credit institutions to include those risks in their risk management and decision making. In...

Tests of Russia's Zircon hypersonic cruise missile are nearing completion and deliveries to the navy will begin in 2022, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (3 November).

The Metaverse is going mainstream, and European brands would do well to spot the potential value of shared virtual spaces that transcend borders.

Poland was expected to use the COP26 summit to announce its climate neutrality goals as the last country in the EU to do so. But Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s speech, which focussed on problems rather than solutions, was a letdown, experts told EURACTIV.

Newly appointed Polish Climate and Environment Minister Anna Moskwa will visit Prague on Friday to resume bilateral talks between Czechia and Poland in a bid to unblock the Turów lignite mine dispute. “We were glad that she took this as...

The opposition is still in the lead in Budapest, where the six-party joint list would get 44% of the vote, while Fidesz-KDNP would get 31%, if the parliamentary elections were held in the near future, a survey commissioned by HVG revealed. The survey of...

The government has approved a plan to join 76 undisturbed forests spread over 6,500 hectares in a new protected area dubbed Primary Forests Slovakia. The reservation will be under the highest level of protection, which should protect local biodiversity. Activists...

Spain welcomed 4.69 million foreign tourists in September this year, a 311.9% increase compared to the same month in 2020 when most of the EU was facing severe travel restrictions to contain the pandemic, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported. Read more....