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Faith in politicians and a functioning democracy has increased in Finland over the past year, a survey based on interviews conducted in spring and published on Wednesday has found. The Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA) survey found that 51%...

Days after Ireland recorded its hottest day in more than a century, the government’s climate advisory body said Dublin must take urgent climate action to address current and future extreme weather events. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Climate...

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are preparing for six weeks of campaigning in what many observers expect to be a bitter and bruising race to become prime minister and Conservative Party leader. The former chancellor and incumbent foreign secretary were...

The Netherlands will not extend resident permits for non-Ukrainians who had a temporary residence permit in Ukraine before they left the country. The Dutch will not extend residence permits to anyone who came to the Netherlands from Ukraine, where they...

A parliamentary committee has backed a motion to waive the immunity of far-right MP Grzegorz Braun after a breach of COVID curbing rules. Proceedings have been initiated in parliament against Braun, a member of the lower house of the Polish...

Searches were carried out at the interior and finance ministries on Wednesday due to the suspected misappropriation of about half a million euros in EU funds by an agency. The Agency for European Integration and Economic Development (AEI) is accused...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a plan for wide-scale reforestation on Wednesday during his trip to the fire-ravaged region of South-West France. Since 12 July, more than 20,000 hectares of forest, spread over two sites near the city of Bordeaux, have...

The presidents of Serbia and Egypt, Aleksandar Vučić and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, signed a strategic partnership agreement on Wednesday in Belgrade, with el-Sisi’s visit marking the first visit of an Egyptian president to the Serbian capital in 35 years. Business cooperation,...

Former three-time Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday slammed the European Commission’s rule of law report on Slovakia, calling it “untrue”. Fico announced that he sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about it. “After reading...

The Spanish government on Wednesday rejected the European Commission’s proposal that all EU countries voluntarily reduce their gas consumption by 15% until next spring to prepare for a possible cut in Russian gas supplies. “We defend European values, but we...

German economic growth will slow down considerably, multiple reports have found, with some projections even pointing to a recession in 2023. While Germany’s economic prospects looked good at the start of the year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that...

In what would represent the largest military purchase in Czech history, the government has announced plans to almost double the country’s fighter jet fleet by purchasing American-made aircraft. However, the move upset Prague’s Swedish partners, who are behind the technologies...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday (20 July) dismissed as inadequate a seventh round of European Union sanctions against Russia, which is currently being finalised.

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain's next prime minister after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson.

Europe is on edge about the restart of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline from Russia after annual maintenance is set to end on Thursday (21 July), with governments bracing for possible further supply cuts.

Bivalent vaccines are those that cross-neutralise several COVID-19 virus variants and they are expected to be authorised as early as September this year. There is a trick - no one knows what variant might be dominant by autumn.

As hard as it might seem to imagine in the sweltering heat that engulfed Brussels in the past few days, winter is coming and, along with the temperature, economic prospects are in danger of sliding below zero.

Global demand for electricity is slowing sharply this year due to sluggish economic growth and runaway energy prices and the trend will likely continue next year, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday (20 July).

A turbine currently missing for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline cannot be used as an excuse not to restart gas deliveries to Europe, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday (20 July).

New electric and hydrogen propulsion technology promises to slash the climate impact of taking to the skies, but there are still a host of engineering challenges to overcome before these aircraft enter commercial circulation, Eric Dalbiès of Safran told EURACTIV.