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An “electricity price brake,” which will allow households to consume 80% of last year’s electricity use at lower prices, was revealed in the details of the Austrian government’s household electricity relief on Sunday. With electricity prices high as a consequence...

The French left must be reborn, believes Bernard Cazeneuve, prime minister of President François Hollande from 2016 to 2017, who published a manifesto on Saturday on the Journal du Dimanche website. Bernard Cazeneuve opposes the alliance between the radical left...

The German government will tax electricity market windfall profits, using the revenue to cap electricity bills as part of a €65 billion relief package agreed upon during the weekend. After weeks of negotiations, the governing coalition agreed on a third...

Croatia wants to block the planned purchase by a Hungarian investment fund of a 43% stake in leading food and retail group Fortenova to a Hungarian businessman supposed to be a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the Nacional weekly...

As Gazprom further tightened supplies to Europe on Friday, the European Commission responded by outlining two possible instruments to cap wholesale gas prices  – one of which would be targeted at Russia only, according to a leaked paper seen by...

Nearly 1,000 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats on Saturday (3 September), the UK government said Sunday, as growing numbers of arrivals have exacerbated tensions between Britain and France.

Poland wants to collaborate with Hungary in various political fields after a short-time split caused by a difference of positions on the war in Ukraine, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told pro-government magazine Sieci weekly. In an interview published on Monday,...

Nearly three decades after Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two states, Czechs are still looking for a proper name in English for their country.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament are considering adding a biomethane mandate to the Renewable Energy Directive, a move aimed at weaning Europe off of imported fossil fuels. But in doing so they risk repeating past mistakes, argues Chelsea Baldino.

Thousands of Russians filed past the casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, on 3 September with many saying they wanted to honour his memory as "a peacemaker" who dismantled totalitarianism and gave them their freedom.

An estimated 70,000 people protested in Prague against the Czech government on Saturday (3 September), calling on the ruling coalition to do more to control soaring energy prices and voicing opposition to the European Union and NATO.

A critical nuclear power plant in Ukraine again lost external power, international energy officials said on Saturday (3 September), heightening concerns as the energy battle between Moscow and the West ramped up in recent days amid the ongoing war.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused Greece on Saturday (3 September) of occupying islands in the Aegean Sea that have a demilitarised status, and said Turkey was prepared to "do what is necessary" when the time comes.

Russia has scrapped a Saturday 3 September deadline to resume flows via a major gas supply route to Germany, deepening Europe's difficulties in securing winter fuel, after saying it had found faults in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline during maintenance.

The lawmakers co-leading on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation have circulated a new compromise that largely incorporates elements proposed by other political groups in the innovation part of the proposal. The co-rapporteurs for the AI Act, Brando Benifei and Dragoș...

For Captain Laurent Alfonso, expert in European civil protection, global warming requires us to be "ready to intervene everywhere, all the time and for all kinds of disasters."

The European Commission proposed measures to prevent a surge of COVID-19 cases in the upcoming autumn and winter season, calling for member states to enact a coordinated approach. 

Across the continent, Europeans are facing soaring energy and food bills. Many will simply not be able to pay. Others will have to cut back on energy use and other essentials such as food and transport. It’s a grim picture....

As a tough winter with the promise of power cuts and electricity price hikes looms large over Europe, Western Balkan leaders gathered for the Open Balkan summit in Belgrade on Friday (2 September) and called upon the EU for support.

G7 finance ministers on Friday (2 September) agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil to slash Moscow's revenues while keeping crude flowing and avoiding price spikes, but specifics were not defined.