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By accelerating the introduction of less harmful alternatives into the market, Europe will be able to phase out cigarettes quicker than the combustion engine, a senior expert from tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI) told EURACTIV. Speaking on the sidelines...

Italy's ruling right-wing coalition is set to loosen hunting rules to deal with what the country's farming lobby calls an "invasion" of wild boars.

Protests took place in Tirana on Wednesday as the government inaugurated the works of the new National Theatre after the previous one was demolished following a two-year-long civil resistance and a lost case in the Constitutional Court. The protest against...

The European Union welcomed a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling Wednesday (21 December) against Colombia's imposition of duties on frozen fries from three EU countries.

While he has no plans to step down any time soon, the ruling Fidesz party has no shortage of successors, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters at the once-yearly press conference in Budapest on Wednesday. EURACTIV’s media partner Telex...

Serbian President Aleksander Vucic has repeatedly stated that Belgrade and his government is not behind the blockades in north Kosovo, but on Wednesday, a comment to the media calls that into question. Blockades and barricades were set up on key...

Kosovo’s NATO-led international peacekeeping force KFOR said it is still considering the Serbia’s request to send its own military to the north of the country as exacerbated tensions enter the 12th day. Elections were set to be held on 18...

A Belgian court will decide on Thursday (22 December) whether to keep a Greek MEP in jail pending trial on corruption charges in a graft scandal linked to Qatar that has rocked the European Parliament.

Croatia’s sole pipeline operator, JANAF, has signed a two-year contract with Serbia’s NIS, majority owned by Russia’s Gazprom, for transporting crude oil to Serbia, despite previously announcing it would halt such transport as the EU tightened restrictions on Russian oil...

Europe’s newest forum will need momentum to bring concrete results for member states, several scenarios for its future being possible, writes Sir Michael Leigh.

Bulgaria should join the visa-free Schengen area before October next year at the latest, according to the clear and concrete deadline President Rumen Radev was given at last week’s European Council meeting in Brussels, Justice Minister Krum Zarkov told Nova...

Year on year, Freedom House reports a continued decline in the strength of our democracies – a trend that has not been absent in Europe. The diagnosis is clear: our democratic values are under threat.

Putin said on 21 December gave his backing to a plan to boost the size of the armed forces by more than 30% as he said Moscow needed to learn from and fix the problems it had suffered in Ukraine.

Gas prices for Polish consumers excluding businesses will be capped at €43 per megawatt-hour (MWh) to ensure they are better protected against rising energy costs, according to a law signed by President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday. Households, housing communities, health...

Portugal’s strong labour market is preventing a stagflation scenario at a time when inflation limits investment, Bank of Portugal Governor Mario Centeno said on Wednesday. Centeno spoke at the annual meeting of the Portuguese Diaspora Council in Cascais. “It is...

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s socialist PSOE party would come out as the winner with 30.6%, ahead of centre-right rival Partido Popular if elections were held today though the race between the two is getting increasingly close, a fresh poll from...

The Italian government of conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will introduce food assistance for vulnerable families based on a proposal made by Democratic Party MPs. Under the proposal, every low-income family will receive assistance, including food and drink selected from...

Finland will send Ukraine military aid worth €28.8 million, bringing total contributions to €189.2 million and making it the eleventh package sent there since the start of the war, the defence ministry announced after it got the green light from...

Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch has filed a defamation complaint against former Green MEP José Bové after he made allegations of attempted corruption on the radio last week. As the QatarGate scandal continues to unfold, former Green MEP José Bové...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the US Congress on Wednesday (21 December) that aid to Ukraine is an investment in democracy, not charity, and invoked American victory over the Nazis in a key World War Two battle to press for continued...