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Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić during a virtual-session of the UN Security Council on Wednesday accused Priština of not having implemented the Brussels Agreement from seven years ago due to its refusal to form the Community of Serb Municipalities. At...

The number of coronavirus infections rose abruptly on Wednesday, as the country is preparing for new restrictions. However, president Klaus Iohannis said another lockdown is not a solution. “We are looking for solutions to limit the virus spread, while continuing...

Bulgaria is the only country blocking the signing of an important border management agreement between North Macedonia and the European border agency Frontex, the obstacle being the way the neighbouring country designates its language, writes Dnevnik, partner of EURACTIV Bulgaria,...

Britain said it would introduce new rules from January to bar entry to people from the European Union with a criminal record, meaning those from the bloc would be treated the same as the rest of the world.

Anže Erbežnik ended up two votes short of securing appointment as a Constitutional Court judge in a 44:35 secret ballot in parliament on Wednesday (21 October). The result was the same for the nominee for Banka Slovenije vice-governor Arjana Brezigar...

The largest wholesales drug companies have suspended or are suspending drug deliveries to 75% of Croatia’s hospitals  because the government owes them a total of 5 billion kunas (around €700 million). Read more. CUT To help finance the health system...

The Czech government has announced strict new measures that come into effect on Thursday until at least 3 November, in response to an enormous rise in COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations across the country. However, Health Minister Roman Prymula denied that...

Portugal’s Competition Authority has approved an increased state-owned stake in the Portuguese flag carrier TAP, with the acquisition of 22.5% of the company’s capital, in addition to the 50% already held by Parpública, the state investment management company. On 2...

Spain’s government said it was mulling the possibility of introducing night curfews across regions with high coronavirus infection rates as Spain recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 cases and 34,366 related deaths since the start of the pandemic At the...

Italy’s region of Lazio adopted a curfew that will run from midnight to 5am starting Friday, following in the steps of Lombardy and Campania, two regions that already ordered similar measures to come into effect this week. While people will...

A deal made between Sweden’s Social Democrat-Green Party minority government and the centre-right opposition following the 2018 election is proving to be a ticking time bomb. To rely on the silent support from the Centre and Liberal parties, the government...

Several French departments will fall into the “high alert” category and will have to impose curfews following the press conference on Thursday afternoon where Prime Minister Jean Castex and Health Minister Olivier Véran are set to announce the new measures....

Germany’s Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday (21 October). He has gone into self-isolation and currently is only displaying cold-like symptoms, according to a statement from the ministry’s spokesperson. Photos showed that Spahn took...

The idea of a rule of law mechanism in the EU is hopelessly half-baked. Rule of law warriors are unable to define or measure what they mean, they are simply waging an ideological battle, argues Zoltán Kovács.

Britain and the European Union will resume fraught post-Brexit trade talks on Thursday (22 October) after seven days lost to threats and brinkmanship, and with just weeks left to salvage an agreement.

The aim of agroecology, according to the declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology, is to find ways to recover the food system destroyed by industrial agriculture. But in Poland, it seems, there are too many obstacles to guarantee success....

Over half the small and medium-sized companies which together provide jobs for two-thirds of European workers fear for their survival in the coming 12 months, according to a survey released by management consultancy McKinsey on Thursday (22 October).

Greece is set to announce new restrictive measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after an explosion of 865 new cases were reported on Thursday, with 331 cases in the region of Attica and 181 in Thessaloniki. Several local...

The first step to bring forestry under the EU’s emissions trading scheme is to ensure that every tonne of carbon dioxide in the forest is counted so that a certification system for carbon removals can be put in place, Artur Runge-Metzger told EURACTIV.

Ukraine, the laboratory of Russia’s disinformation techniques, wants to work closely with the EU and NATO to defeat disinformation together, writes Andriy Yermak.