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The government on Saturday (25 June) approved a new anti-crisis package worth €9.1 billion aimed at reducing the impact of inflation on the most vulnerable and targeting the windfall profits made by big energy companies this year due to the soaring price of gas on global markets.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has come under fire, including by members of his own government, for defending the actions of Moroccan authorities in response to the attempted border breach by migrants at the Spanish enclave Melilla. Of the 2,000...

Members of President Emmanuel Macron’s party have announced that they will push to amend the French Constitution to make abortion a constitutional right, following the US Supreme Court’s controversial decision. The US Supreme Court on Friday (24 June) overturned its...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, whose government was ousted in a no-confidence vote last week, will again be a candidate for the prime minister post, Petkov stated in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday. Petkov is the...

Slovakia is unable to implement the national recovery and resilience plan as it was conceived a year ago due to new conditions, Livia Vašáková, director of the recovery plan department at the government office, admitted to EURACTIV Slovakia. One of...

Proving one’s identity is set to become possible next year through a digital identification app available for smartphones and tablets that aims to prevent gender-based discrimination and promote work-based immigration. The government has justified its legislative proposal that could see...

The Dutch government will reveal plans this week to develop two new nuclear power stations, in what will be “a good addition to all sustainable techniques” in the Netherlands, Climate and Energy Minister Rob Jetten has said.

In Europe, conservative Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presents himself as a pro-European modernist but in Greece, he is creating a “regime” aiming to control the media and justice, former prime minister and main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras told EURACTIV Network in...

Russian missiles struck an apartment block and close to a kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, in strikes US President Joe Biden condemned as "barbarism" as world leaders gathered in Europe to discuss further sanctions against Moscow.

To tackle the growing influence of China and its belt and road initiative, Western leaders launched a Western counter-initiative worth $600 billion to lessen the Chinese economic grip on low- and middle-income countries.

France will have to spend "at least" €2.3 billion more per year to adapt infrastructures to climate change, a recent report published by the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) think tank reads.

Emissions from energy production and consumption must reach net-zero by 2050 if Europe is to meet its objective of reaching "climate neutrality" by mid-century. In this special report, EURACTIV examines the implications for the electricity sector and the energy system as a whole.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government will press ahead on Monday (27 June) with legislation to scrap rules on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland, setting up further clashes with the European Union. The legislation, which would unilaterally replace parts of...

In this week’s edition: Post-EUCO hangover, Western Balkans fury and NATO summit preview.

Russia's army has "fully occupied" the key Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk after weeks of fighting, its mayor said, as Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to send nuclear-capable missiles to Belarus within months.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies on Sunday to a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and its far-reaching consequences, from energy shortages to a food crisis.

Ukraine said it came under "massive bombardment" Saturday (25 June) from neighbouring Belarus, a Russian ally not officially involved in the conflict, the day after announcing a retreat from the strategic city of Severodonetsk.

Russian authorities have removed a Polish flag from a memorial commemorating the thousands of Poles killed by the Soviet Union, amid heightened tensions between Moscow and Warsaw over the Ukraine conflict.

While the rate of diagnoses of hepatitis cases of unknown origin among children has started to decrease, scientists' understanding of the infections remains “mixed” - in part, due to a lack of standardisation of data collection across the globe.

Attitudes towards Russia in the European Parliament vary according to country and ideology, new data published this week suggests, with parties from the far-left and far-right the most sympathetic to the Kremlin.