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Austria is revamping its renewable heating law in order to reduce the country's immense dependence on Russia: pulling forward a sales phase-out of fossil gas boilers, and requiring broken oil and coal heaters to be replaced with green options.

The European Commission imposed a €3.3 million fine on the Czech Republic for mistakes in the distribution of EU agricultural subsidies, including the conflict of interest that arose from former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’ links to the giant agrochemical holding...

The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is divided over the agreement with the European Commission to unlock money from the EU recovery fund. Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro argued that the agreement of Poland and the Commission, which paved the way to...

The centre-right Partido Popular party is set to win the regional election in Andalusia on 18 June and be close to obtaining an absolute majority of 55 seats out of 109, election polls published Monday (13 June) by ABC, El...

The conservatives were successful in many municipalities, and Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy party is set surpass Matteo Salvini’s League, early results from Italy’s local elections show. On Sunday (12 June), local elections marked the last test for Italian...

Lithuania hopes to disconnect from the post-Soviet electricity system known as the BRELL ring sooner than initially planned, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said in a meeting with EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson in Vilnius on Monday. While Lithuania was among...

Dublin has sharply criticised the UK government for moving ahead with legislation facilitating the unilateral setting aside of parts of the Northern Ireland protocol. Read also: UK could face EU sanctions over new NI protocol bill “UK Government now proposing to...

The Netherlands, together with EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders and the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim Khan, will organise a ministerial conference on the accountability for war crimes committed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 14 July. The government’s...

The EU’s defence industry needs strengthening rather than having lots of money spent abroad, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. Speaking at the Eurosatory international defence conference in Paris on Monday, Macron claimed that European defence must become “much...

The Western Balkan route is now the number one preferred route for smuggling illegal and irregular migrants into the EU, according to new data from Frontex, the EU border guard agency. The number of irregular entries into Europe increased by...

The Albanian government signed a memorandum of understanding with international company Patagonia to develop the Vjosa National Park, Europe’s first wild river park, as Prime Minister Edi Rama pledged that any economic activity affecting the river would be prohibited. Rama,...

Russia's main goal of its military operation in Ukraine is to protect the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, the Kremlin said on Monday (13 June), after the leader of one of the separatist regions asked for additional forces from Moscow.

Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger said he supports Ukraine’s ambitions to become an EU member, but there should be “no shortcuts”, he said after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. Heger met with Scholz in Berlin on Monday (13...

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa stressed Lisbon’s continued support for the EU over Brexit disagreements while touting the “old Luso-British alliance” during the signing of a broad Portuguese-British declaration with UK counterpart Boris Johnson in London on Monday. “This joint...

Presenting a ‘worrying trend’, nuclear arsenals are expected to grow over the coming decade, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) forecast in its Yearbook for 2022. Though there was a slight decline in the number of nuclear weapons between...

Eastern Germans are more hesitant about letting Ukraine into the bloc than Western Germans, a new poll published this week found. Forty-five per cent of Germans say they would support Ukraine joining the EU, while 42% oppose, and 13% were...

The European Commission is set to reopen infringement proceedings against the UK that could lead to the collapse of the post Brexit trade deal after London on Monday tabled a new law designed to unilaterally overhaul the Northern Ireland protocol.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove information related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that people have a right to know the facts of the war.

The process of weaning Europe off Russian gas cannot be done without nuclear being a greater part of the energy mix, argues Alena Mastantuono.

Rewatch this EURACTIV Hybrid Conference to find out how a socially just EU Renovation Wave can be achieved. How can a massive renovation of buildings be triggered in the coming decade while ensuring that energy poverty is eradicated?