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When Evie and Gia decided to get married they turned Romania's hardening discrimination against LGBTQ people on its head.

The centre-right will govern Italy for the next 10 years, Vice Prime Minister and League leader Mateo Salvini said during the presentation of the League’s candidates for the upcoming regional elections in Lombardy in Milan on Saturday. The centre-right government...

The once internationally applauded Finnish education system has failed to evolve and has deteriorated, found a new report published by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture on Thursday. While other countries have improved their performance, Finland has been stranded,...

The number of drug shortages hit a new record in 2022, as the number of times a drug was unavailable for at least two weeks was 1,514 times compared to 2021 when the number was 1,007, which chairman of the...

Commissioner Johannes Hahn expects Vienna will lift its veto against Bulgaria and Romania’s Schengen accession in due time, paving the way for the country to repair its image. In December 2022, Austria, strongly focused on migration issues, blocked Bulgaria and...

The government is worried about any ‘blockages’ in the form of strikes and parliamentary obstructions ahead of the first day of social mobilisation against pension reforms on Thursday. Thursday’s strike will be the first trade union response to the pension...

The question of who will succeed Christine Lambrecht as defence minister remains open, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz is silent after several media reports that the minister plans to step down. While neither Lambrecht nor the federal government officially confirmed the...

Although the Polish opposition parties publicly assured their unity on the important vote, the centrist party Poland 2050 broke out of the arrangement at the last minute and voted differently, a bad sign for the opposition’s unity just months before...

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the head of centre-right opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, kicked off a harsh pre-campaign on Saturday ahead of the upcoming municipal and general elections with accusations of bad governance. In a socialist rally in Sevilla...

The pro-Russian Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will receive the third and final mandate from the president on Monday to form a regular government in the EU’s poorest state mired in political crisis, making this the last opportunity to form a...

Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella’s change of discourse on Qatar could be explained by ‘realpolitik’, not by corruption, his lawyer Maxime Toller said on TV on Sunday. Last month, Tarabella was accused by Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D), a former MEP (2004-2019)...

Russia and Belarus will begin joint air force drills on Monday (16 January), which have triggered fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow could use its ally to launch a new ground offensive in Ukraine.

Russia unleashed a new wave of major attacks on Ukraine on Saturday (14 January), hitting energy infrastructure across the country and killing at least 12 people in a missile strike on a nine-storey apartment building in the city of Dnipro, officials said.

In this week’s edition: A run-down of the EU's foreign policy hot topics for 2023.

The executive vice-president of the European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, on Friday (13 January) proposed a 'Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework' for state aid.

The Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson on Friday (13 January) deplored as “sabotage” of his country’s NATO bid the demonstration in Stockholm in which a puppet of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was hung from its feet.

Kazakhstan’s reform efforts after the recent presidential elections could position the country as a key partner for the EU, with the region increasingly slipping out from Russia’s thumb. In response to the deadly January protests, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev promised comprehensive...

Following the Greek authorities’ annulment of misdemeanour charges facing humanitarian workers in Lesbos, EU lawmaker Grace O’Sullivan told EURACTIV the bloc’s new asylum and migration infrastructure must protect NGOs and search and rescue missions.

The slow countdown to the next European elections in May 2024 is already starting and the last thing MEPs and their political groups want to talk about is corruption in their own Parliament. Unfortunately, they don’t have much choice.

Swedish and EU officials cut the ribbon of a future space rocket centre at Esrange, in Sweden’s deep north, on Friday (13 December), voicing hope that European rockets would start launching satellites from Swedish soil already next year.