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As NGO ships are arriving in Sicily loaded with migrants, Massimiliano Romeo, the leader of the far-right League in the Senate, took aim at EU 'moralists' who demand humanitarianism but rely on the ports of others when it comes to migration.

Paris is bracing for another in a series of multi-sector strikes on Thursday as France’s emerging protest movement gains ground, only a day after general strikes paralysed its northern neighbour Belgium and Greece in a sign of increasing strain on...

Republicans were edging closer to securing a majority in the US House of Representatives early on 10 November, while control of the Senate hung in the balance, two days after Democrats staved off a Republican "red wave" in midterm elections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend a gathering of leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) nations in Bali next week, an Indonesian government official told Reuters on Thursday (10 November).

The leader of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) Manfred Weber is providing political cover to Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the so-called “Greek Watergate”, Renew Europe MEP Georgios Kyrtsos told EURACTIV in an interview.

The revision of the EU’s packaging legislation signals a wholesale shift to reusable beverage containers that will derail and undermine the attainment of a true circular economy for soft drink packaging.

French President Emmanuel Macron presented his carbon emission reduction targets for the industrial sector on Tuesday (8 November), highlighting the need for investment in greener industry and countering American protectionism.

Romania announced Wednesday (9 November) that the United States will provide funding worth more than $3 billion for the construction of two new nuclear reactors in the eastern European country, which is expected to commence early next year.

The government has once again postponed the introduction of higher electricity tariffs for those that use more than 800-kilowatt hours (kWh) per month, Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Belinda Balluku has said. Albanian energy prices are currently heavily subsidised...

Romania plans to borrow more than $3 billion from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to build two new reactors at the country’s sole nuclear power plant in Cernavoda. EXIM issued two letters of interest for US exports...

National Council Speaker Boris Kollár took aim at the Interior Ministry, whose head currently faces a no-confidence motion, for the migrant tent situation at the Czecho-Slovak border, saying the country should have closed its borders a long time ago. “We...

The government has launched a mental health helpline that can be reached around the clock amid a 25% increase in mental health problems globally. During a press conference addressed by Health Minister Chris Fearne, the number 1579 was launched and...

Portuguese imports increased by nearly 30% in September compared to the same month last year, with the imports of fuels and lubricants seeing a meteoric 51% rise, the government’s statistics institute INE said on Wednesday. “In September 2022, exports and...

Spain will seek to highlight the importance of maintaining sound relations with Latin America when it takes up the EU Council Presidency in the second half of  2023, Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Pilar Cancela, told EFE in...

Russia ordered its troops to withdraw from the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday (9 November) in a further major blow to its campaign amid a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

The gaming industry is yet again a gold mine for entrepreneurs in Finland, income tax data revealed by the Tax Administration as part of Tax Day on Wednesday revealed. Taking the pole position in 2021 was Ilkka Paananen, the founder...

Dutch parties are divided over the government’s new asylum bill proposal, which, if adopted in its current form, would provide financial compensation to municipalities providing accommodation to asylum seekers. While the coalition now backs the new bill, party members have...

Germany’s three governing parties have pledged continued support for Moldova’s EU candidacy in a motion tabled in parliament on Tuesday, which also calls to improve the country’s accession process. Moldova was granted EU candidacy status in June alongside neighbouring Ukraine....

Parliament has obliged the caretaker government to speed up the procedure to close a deal for the supply of non-Russian nuclear fuel for the Kozloduy nuclear power plant’s two Soviet reactors which until now have only been supplied by Moscow....

The economy has entered a “mild recession”, the Czech Finance Ministry admitted in its macroeconomic forecast for November, which also predicts stagnation and a high 9.5% inflation rate for 2023. “The current mild recession is not in itself a tragedy;...