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Bulgaria has not given up its ambition to host the 29th Climate Change Conference (COP29) in 2024, the Foreign Affairs Ministry told EURACTIV Bulgaria on Monday. This year’s edition of the conference will be held in the United Arab Emirates. ...

Italy's most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday (16 January), where the man who has been on the run since 1993 was being treated for cancer.

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday warned his deputies to be ready to face a “turmoil” ahead of the national elections, a statement interpreted by the opposition as “fear” about new revelations regarding the wiretapping scandal.

The current electricity market model was designed in different times and has proved to be vulnerable to stress situations. An overhaul is now needed to facilitate the deployment of renewables, writes Teresa Ribera.

Ukraine insisted the West must speed up its supply of weapons, with the city of Dnipro reeling from a Russian missile strike that killed at least 40 civilians in Dnipro and Ukrainian troops under increased pressure on the eastern front.

Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla has reiterated that the country will never accept an Association of Serb Municipalities with executive powers, violating the Constitution. The previous administration signed an agreement to form the association, which would function in Kosovo independently...

According to data published by Eurostat, Slovakia’s energy consumption showed an increase in December, which was a surprise to many as previous data suggested there was a decrease in energy consumption in the country. Eurostat published a graph of changes...

The Bundeswehr will begin the relocation of Patriot air defence systems into Poland’s territory in the coming days following a deal that was agreed upon by Berlin and Warsaw last month. The deployment of the Patriots will begin “in the...

Eight unions led a teachers’ strike on Monday that will last 18 days after the Education Ministry pushed back negotiation dates on the deadline to withdraw some proposals presented in previous negotiations. A teachers’ strike that will last 18 days...

The daughter of MEP Antonio Panzeri is one step away from being handed over to the Belgian authorities, and over €240,000 has been seized from her bank accounts. In December, the Belgian judiciary issued a European arrest warrant for the...

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday it was too early to say when Stockholm and Helsinki will join NATO as Turkey still blocks the process but hopes it will happen “as soon as possible”, naming the Vilnius NATO summit...

One in five Finns is unable to make up their minds when it comes to deciding whether the government should ease immigration rules, a recent survey has found. The survey was conducted by Maaseudun Tulevaisuus and published Monday. Among those...

The promise of ‘white smoke’ and an agreement on the Northern Ireland protocol on Monday turned out to be another false dawn. After officials had briefed reporters that the latest round of talks between UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has come out in favour of Ukraine’s proposal to institute a special tribunal to prosecute war crimes committed by Russia. Speaking in front of The Hague Academy of International Law on Monday, Baerbock acknowledged that...

A yacht owned by Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who is under Western sanctions as a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has disappeared from its mooring in Croatia’s central Adriatic. The yacht Irina VU was docked at a marina...

Regulators are closely monitoring Twitter, and its compliance with the data protection rules, and Musk should not underestimate the Commission’s efforts to make big platforms responsible, European Commissioner for Transparency and Democracy Věra Jourová warned. Jourová emphasised that European digital...

France will be the first country to include the right to abort in its constitution, which will send a strong signal to women around the world, Albane Gaillot, an advocacy officer at Planning Familial, told EURACTIV. This Tuesday marks the...

Fifty per cent of surveyed Spaniards think that the war in Ukraine should end as soon as possible, even if this means Ukrainians would have to sacrifice some territory to Russia and make concessions to Moscow, a new Pan-European survey...

The French government argues that its controversial pension reform, which will raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, will mitigate a growing spending deficit - an approach contested by experts and trade unions.

Vladimir Putin should watch his back. Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin – known as ‘Putin’s Chef’, as his company catered for the Kremlin for several years – has built an empire which many see as poised to fill any power vacuum...