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The Bank of Finland dumped a bucket of ice water over the government on Tuesday. Headed by former Commissioner, Olli Rehn, the bank predicts weaker economic growth than expected for 2020. The growth will slow to under one per cent...

The US senate has passed a law that sanctions companies and countries working on the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will provide Germany with Russian gas, Deutsche Welle reports. If Donald Trump signs the law, his administration would have 60 days to identify the companies and individuals, revoke their US visa and block their property. Germany's foreign minister Heiko Maas reacted saying "this is unacceptable".

Following the 13th day of demonstrations against the proposed pension reform, French PM Edouard Philippe is once again receiving the unions in Matignon on Wednesday, in an attempt to find a way out of the crisis, under the threat of further...

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has put pressure on Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to disclose what action he is undertaking with regards to a proposed investigation into the the former Fine Gael member of parliament Dara Murphy. The Irishman...

Poland doesn't trust Germany on defence, the Germans don't trust the Italians on money, nobody trusts that France's nuclear weapons can become a pan-European deterrent. Croatia won't accept North Macedonia's new name, Spain wants Gibraltar back. The Irish fear Brexit.

Last week, the Vučjak camp in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina was finally closed. Termed "The Jungle" by people who were living there, the camp had no running water, no electricity, no usable toilets, and mouldy, leaking, and overcrowded tents.

3 out of 27 intergroups of the new European Parliament will be related to religion issues, according to a document seen by EURACTIV. We were informed that a big number of consultancies in Brussels have been heavily lobbying in the...

NATO will receive its second US-made Global Hawk drone on Thursday (19 December) and aims to have all five unmanned aircraft of its $1.5 billion surveillance system operational in 2022, alliance officials said on Tuesday.

The European Commission is cautious about loosening EU fiscal rules in order to incentivise ‘green’ investment by member states. Valdis Dombrovskis, the Commission Vice-President for the economy, said on Tuesday (17 December) he wants to avoid “divisive” issues.

As Serbia heads into an election year, the rhetoric of political parties rise. In an exclusive op-ed for EURACTIV.com, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić says a fair election requires all parties to participate and present their vision in order to give people a real choice.

A leading Green MEP has hit out at Italy's 5 Star Movement (M5S) following the recent news that Facebook is investigating the party over potential data misuse, bringing further doubt to the possibility of the party joining forces with the Greens in the European Parliament.

A stress test of pension schemes across the European Union wiped out €270 billion or almost a quarter of investments at funds that took part, the EU's insurance and pensions watchdog said on Tuesday (17 December).

Quim Torra, the president of Catalonia, insisted on Tuesday (17 December) on the “right to self-determination” for the prosperous Spanish region, before giving his support – and that of Catalan separatist political forces - to the investiture of acting socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Spanish media reported.

More work is needed by Greece to restore the ability of its criminal justice system to counter corruption, Europe's main rights watchdog said on Tuesday (17 December).

Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite is set to leave Earth Wednesday morning (18 December) a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown.

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Ukraine has for decades counted exclusively on Russian pipeline gas, for its own use and for the lucrative transit taxes. But the tensions with Russia after 2014 and the low prices of LNG have changed the paradigm completely.

Women will have to wait two centuries to have as many economic opportunities as their male colleagues, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020 published on Tuesday (17 December) warns.

Uyghur scholar and human rights activist Ilham Tohti will be awarded the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in a ceremony on Wednesday at 12.00.

Source : © European Union, 2019 - EP

Uyghur scholar and human rights activist Ilham Tohti will be awarded the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in a ceremony on Wednesday at 12.00.

Source : © European Union, 2019 - EP