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Refugee centres in Bulgaria have exceeded their maximum capacity by more than 20%, reaching levels not seen in the past two to three years, the BGNES news agency reported. In Bulgaria, refugees and migrants — mainly from  Algeria, Morocco and...

The no-confidence vote against the government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala for mishandling the energy crisis filed by the ex-prime minister Andrej Babiš led opposition is likely to fail due to a lack of majority. The House of Commons, the...

Ten days before parliamentary elections, a far-right Swedish Democrat official invited his colleagues to celebrate the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi Germany attack on Poland, according to an internal email sent to the official’s parliamentary office. To celebrate 1 September...

UN nuclear experts who crossed into Russian-held territory in Ukraine to assess the safety of Europe's biggest atomic energy plant were seeking on Friday (2 September) to assess physical damage to the facility, where both sides warn of possible disaster.

Opposition parties slammed President Emmanuel Macron for planning an emergency gas and electricity meeting for Friday that will be held strictly among ministers as he did for the COVID-19 situation during the pandemic. Usually convened for national security issues, the...

Thanks to the new legislation to cut emissions signed by President Biden, the Inflation Reduction Act, the United States are joining Europe in setting an example for the rest of the world in the fight against climate change, write Ani Dasgupta and Stientje van Veldhoven. 

The scale of the cost of living crisis facing Europeans has been laid bare by a new poll indicating that a majority of voters in Europe’s four largest countries expect social unrest and public protests in the coming month. 

The French government is under pressure to improve its disability access after it missed the deadline for implementing the EU's directive on furthering the accessibility of goods and services.

Spyware-targeted MEPs, including the Greek opposition leader and Catalan separatists, will not be invited to speak at next week's Pegasus Committee hearing in the European Parliament.

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) found that EU institutions demonstrated considerable resilience in the face of the COVID-19  pandemic, but more needs to be done in the post-COVID phase. 

This is the perspective of an East European who, at the age of 30, saw his life changing completely, and for the better. If there is one single person I would like to thank, this is of course Mikhail Gorbachev.

Summer droughts across Europe have led to a drop in grain and cereals production, raising prices for animal feed which, combined with a lack of pasture land, will potentially have a strong impact on European poultry and pork production, experts have warned.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has greenlit two adapted mRNA COVID-19 vaccines targeting the original strain of COVID-19 as well as the BA.1 Omicron subvariant.

The digital strategy was approved by the federal cabinet on Wednesday (August 31), albeit belatedly. After the responsibilities of the respective ministries have been clarified, the task is now to implement the strategy.

Berlin has arranged for a fifth floating liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in order to increase the amount of LNG the country is able to import, which may be a boon to the country’s landlocked neighbours. 

The UK’s increased dumping of raw sewage in the Channel could be a breach of its post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the European Commission told MEPs on Thursday (1 September).

The UK competition authority will advance a probe into Microsoft’s acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, it announced on Thursday (1 September). 

Lawmakers and stakeholders have criticised the European Commission for not placing enough emphasis on the potential impact of its proposal to halve both the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030 on food production. 

Shelling near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant complex forced an hours-long delay on Thursday (1 September) of a planned visit by UN experts to the site, but the team leader said they remained determined to carry out their safety inspection.

In a difficult geopolitical context, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev appears to seek to strengthen his country institutionally by proposing a snap presidential election this autumn and parliamentary elections in the first half of 2023.