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The CEO of Portugal’s national flag carrier, Christine Ourmières-Widener, will testify in parliament next Wednesday, following a mandatory request from the conservative Chega party over a controversial golden handshake. The Chega party want Ourmières-Widener to provide explanations regarding a €500,000...

Charges of sedition against the former leader of the Catalonia region were dropped by a Spanish Supreme Court judge on Thursday after Spain’s government scrubbed the crime from the country’s penal code. Puigdemont, who exiled himself to Belgium following Catalonia’s...

An agreement to establish a large marine protected area in the Mediterranean is in the pipeline between Italy, France, Spain, and Cyprus to meet EU targets on the protection of the sea and biodiversity, Italy’s environment minister said on Thursday....

Sweden was sharply criticised for the way it is approaching Turkey in negotiations to join NATO by Human Rights Watch Director Tirana Hassan on Thursday. Sweden applied for NATO membership in May 2022, but its accession to the alliance is...

The population of Finland is ageing fast and worries about climate change and the war nearby are having an impact on the willingness to reproduce, according to a survey published by the Family Federation of Finland on Thursday. Some 15%...

A potential alliance between the rightist European Conservatives and Reformists Group ECR and the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is off the table for the German conservatives, a senior centre-right party official in Berlin told EURACTIV. While the Italian coalition...

Between the first and second rounds of the upcoming presidential election, in which former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš is running, his ANO party will call a vote of no-confidence in the government. Czech government coalition leaders say an opposition...

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, sat down with Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, where they discussed Ukraine, global energy security, and regional developments, Hoekstra tweeted on Thursday. Hoekstra tweeted that this meeting worked to reaffirm...

Ukraine has managed to carry out “a real revolution by moving upmarket in its defensive cyber fight” while suffering from high-level cyber attacks, the head of France’s Cyber Defence Command (COMCYBER), General Aymeric Bonnemaison, said on Thursday. Cyber attacks, particularly...

Avis, Europcar, and Hertz have written to the European Commission to share their frustration at being left out of EU-organised urban mobility discussions.

Green Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has come out in favour of green-lighting the shipment of Leopard 2 battle tanks from Poland to Ukraine, increasing the pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to agree. Poland announced it would ship German-made Leopard tanks to...

Bulgaria should start renegotiations for the Recovery Plan, specifically the part about reducing carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, which should be allowed to operate until 2038, a huge multi-party majority in the parliament decided on Thursday. The proposal was...

Vienna stands ready to send additional soldiers to support the NATO-led peace forces in Kosovo (KFOR) to reinforce the mission, should it become necessary. During a press conference, Chancellor Karl Nehammer told journalists that Austria stood ready to send additional...

Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB on Thursday (12 January) said it had identified more than 1 million tonnes of rare earth oxides in the Kiruna area in the far north of the country, the largest known such deposit in Europe.

What do safety matches, aerated concrete, tetra packs, zip fasteners, ball bearings, adjustable spanners, seat belts, national identification numbers, baby carriers, dental implants, pacemakers and Bluetooth have in common?

The French Socialists are set to elect their First Secretary on 12 and 19 January, with the differences between the three candidates for party leader focusing more on how to deal with the recently formed broad left-wing coalition than on fundamental issues.

EU lawmakers have given the green light to amend the European Parliament’s internal rulebook and give the European Public Prosecutor’s Office powers to demand the lifting of legal immunity for EU lawmakers suspected of grave offences.

Following a record year for electricity imports, the relatively calm weather and relaunch of nuclear reactors have allowed France to start 2023 by exporting more electricity to neighbouring countries than it imports, regaining its top spot as the bloc's main provider.

The EU Parliament’s civil liberties (LIBE) committee has voted to move forward with ratifying the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, rejecting the rapporteur's attempt to block it. 

While some months ago, most analysts (myself included) expected a rather bleak winter for the economy, several pieces of relatively good economic news seen at the start of the year might help lighten up the gloomy mood.