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The British and French home affairs ministers reached an agreement on Monday (14 November) to strengthen their cooperation in stopping asylum-seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats.

The EU has strong reasons to doubt the word of Iranian authorities even though there is still no evidence Iran is supplying missiles to Russia, Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho said on Monday. “We have strong reasons to...

Madrid’s regional centre-right President, Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused the Spanish left of orchestrating a politically biased demonstration against its government on Sunday – with the only aim of winning the next local election scheduled for May 2023. Some 200,000 citizens...

More dialogue is required in order to discuss the inequality between men and women in the labour force, Social Affairs and Employment Minister Karien van Gennip wrote in a letter to the House of Representatives. Currently, women in the Netherlands...

Finns are increasingly turning to mobile apps to help them find better energy deals amid soaring prices and wildly fluctuating costs per unit.

A bill reinforcing measures to combat football hooliganism following several incidents was drafted by Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden, the minister announced in a press release on Monday. The bill proposes measures giving football clubs greater responsibility for ensuring the...

All but one EU member states agreed on the need for additional sanctions against Russia when discussing the issue at the meeting of foreign affairs ministers on Monday, said Slovak Foreign Minister Rastislav Káčer. Káčer did not disclose which country...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella and the Pope have stepped in to calm waters among member states as agreements on migration remain elusive in Brussels. After the ship Ocean Viking operated by the NGO Sos Mediterranée, docked at the port of...

Ahead of the football World Cup, the Qatari labour minister was criticised at a meeting with the EU Parliament’s human rights committee on Monday (14 November) for the violations of workers’ rights in the preparation of the World Cup.

Serbia and Kosovo are on the brink of a dangerous crisis, EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday (14 November), calling both sides to fulfil their obligations under the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

Regarding the Franco-German proposal for a Serbia-Kosovo solution, which includes the acceptance of Kosovo's independence, we must take into account the notion of Serbian superiority which has been cultivated since the beginning of the 19th century, writes Driton Tali.

Europe's transport sector is undergoing a period of profound change, with the climate crisis forcing a rethink of how Europeans get from A to B. In this event report, EURACTIV listens in to discussions on how to create a mobility system fit for the future.

Following the financing of a new French innovation centre manufacturing electric vehicle batteries, EURACTIV France spoke about the opportunities and challenges for the sector with Ambroise Fayolle, vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Benoît Lemaignan, the centre's CEO.

A shift to collective transport is needed to reverse the dominance of cars in cities and reach our decarbonisation targets, Portugal's infrastructure minister said on Monday (14 November), refuting the notion that electric vehicles will end Europe’s urban transport woes.

The European Media Freedom Act proposal is insufficient in protecting journalists from spyware and surveillance, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) warned in an opinion that also calls for the regulation's scope to be redefined.

The Dutch government is set to be an early implementer of several crucial provisions of an upcoming EU legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of an ambitious working agenda for digitalisation. In the past years, the Netherlands was...

Vladimir Putin has disappeared. He is no longer on TV daily, as was the case in recent weeks. Even the Kremlin website doesn’t provide tangible proof of his existence after 9 November, except for a photo that, for all we know, may have been taken earlier.

The European Youth Forum and the European Trade Federation, as well as activists and EU lawmakers, gathered in front of the European Parliament in Brussels on 10 November, the International Interns Day, to demand more rights for trainees.

EU member states kicked off the discussion about the future of EU-Russia relations on Monday (14 November), with the bloc's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, presenting a new draft set of principles for engagement with Moscow, seen by EURACTIV.

Russian and US officials were reported on 14 November to be holding talks in Turkey, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Kherson, the biggest prize his troops have won so far, and vowed to press on recapturing all occupied lands.