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Albania is still experiencing daily cyber attacks following a serious attack from Iran in 2022, Prime Minister Edi Rama said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday. The attack brought critical digital government infrastructure offline and resulted in...

Bulgarian politicians that are directly involved still do not admit whether they knew Ukraine was the final destination of the record Bulgarian arms exports in 2022. “Our (Ukrainian) partners bought the weapons from the (weapons) industry. Part of the weapons...

Poltár, a city in southern Slovakia, invited representatives of the Russian embassy to the commemoration of the liberation of World War II, a move that was heavily criticised by the Defence Ministry. “This action is in absolute contradiction with the...

The prices of cheap medicines will be increased to facilitate access to them and avoid situations in which stocks run out, according to the Health Ministry. The Health Ministry will bring forward a set of measures in this area between...

The Finnish government’s logging operations to thin out forests in the Aalistunturi area continued on Wednesday after environmentalists clashed with police to protest the move. Some 900 kilometres north of Helsinki,  state-owned company Metsähallitus, working under the guidance of the...

The UK government staved off criticism from the opposition and its own Conservative MPs on Wednesday as it forced through legislation that could lead to thousands of pieces of EU law being scrapped from the UK statute. The Retained EU...

The Netherlands reported a total of 13,949 cybercrimes in 2022, which is nearly triple the amount reported in 2019. In 2019 there were 4,715 reports of cybercrime in the Netherlands; in 2022, it rose to 13,949, almost three times as...

Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella (S&D) told RTL on Wednesday that he was serene and did not receive money or gifts from Qatar after being accused by former MEP Pier-Antonio Panzeri (S&D) of being involved in the corruption system operating in...

The Austrian government wants to reduce the burden of high electricity prices on households by covering 80% of network tariffs, while authorities look to tackle price gouging by utility companies. As gas inventories remain high at above 85% and mild...

Risks of electricity cuts are now ‘behind us’, according to the French electricity network manager RTE, but not all is back to normal as strikes and a severe drop in temperatures could have a lasting impact on electricity production. RTE...

Nobody is waiting on the European level for Babiš, EPP Chief Manfred Weber said about the presidential aspirations of former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš (ANO, Renew). Babiš advanced to the second round of the Czech presidential election with independent...

The European Union will be forced to produce more food but with fewer resources as the population grows, said Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Plana, citing this as the reason for the concept of strategic autonomy being put on the table....

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz avoided commenting on the contentious question of delivering Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine during his speech at the Davos World Economic Forum. “We are continuously providing weapons systems to Ukraine, along with our partners,” Scholz said...

Vaccination remains a hot topic in the EU, even as the COVID-19 pandemic's peak appears to have passed. As policymakers look at lessons learned, one thing is clear - while many were happy to get their shots, some pushback persists.

Berlin wants more clarity on how the new data law will interact with data protection rules, differentiating between B2B and B2C data sharing, rethinking the gatekeepers’ exclusion, and making egress fees subject to contractual arrangements.

EURACTIV France obtained final drafts of two agreements that cab drivers and digital platforms, such as Uber, are set to sign on Wednesday, enshrining a minimum ride pay of €7.65 and setting the agenda for future negotiations.

EU countries should prepare themselves to receive up to four million more Ukrainian refugees in 2023, according to a forecast by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development.  

After years of gatherings debating ‘market-based solutions’ to financial crises, climate doom, and slowing economic global growth, it's clear that Davos cannot solve the problems its elites keep creating.

The three biggest parties – Christian democrats (EPP), socialists (S&D) and liberals (Renew Europe) – struck an agreement on the setting up of a new permanent sub-committee on public health in the European Parliament.

An outrage in domestic Italian politics has put the reform of the EU’s energy performance of buildings directive in peril, blowing up a tenuous political compromise from December 2022.