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According to a proposal for a new temporary act announced by the government on Friday, a fixed-term fuel subsidy could be given to transport companies struggling with rising fuel prices. The subsidy, which is part of a proposal for a...

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna has called for an ambitious agenda that could include “a new security and defence policy of the EU”. Stefanishyna attended the ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) party’s 2022 congress, where Ukrainian...

A technical issue at oil giant OMV’s Schwechat refinery on Saturday forced the government to release strategic gasoline stocks while OMV considers what to do about its investments in Russia. The government announced a release of 112,000 tonnes of petrol...

French President Emmanuel Macron criticised his opponents, leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and far-right Marine Le Pen, labelling their political projects as being about “disorder and submission,” in his first press interview since his re-election on Friday. With France’s legislative elections due to take...

Bulgarian authorities condemned what they have called the deliberate burning of a Bulgarian cultural centre in North Macedonia on Saturday morning. The Ivan Mihailov Cultural Centre was opened in Bitola, North Macedonia in April. While Mihailov is considered a national...

Slovak oil refiner Slovnaft says it cannot guarantee fuel supplies to its traditional export destinations in Central Europe under the terms of the EU’s new Russia sanction package, the company has said. Last week EU leaders agreed on a Russian oil embargo...

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson should dismiss Defence Minister Peter Hullqvist, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the newspaper Expressen reported on Saturday. Erdogan’s demand is based on a speech Hulqvist gave at a party 10 years ago where he celebrated the...

Germany’s trains and railway stations were plagued with crowds following the launch on 1 June of the €9 universal travel pass meant to help consumers battle rising prices. The €9 ticket can be purchased in June, July, and August and...

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Bonn Monday (6 June) for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat from rising emissions. The conference will set the stage...

Russia hit Kyiv with cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea on Sunday (4 June), striking a rail car repair facility in the Ukrainian capital, in the first such attack for weeks, Ukraine’s army and the country’s railway chief said....

Over 76% of Kazakh voters approved on Sunday (5 June) the constitutional changes aimed at political reform put to a referendum by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, with 68.44% or 8 million citizens turning out to vote, according to exit polls.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer called on Sunday (5 June) for an intermediate stage between cooperation and full membership of the European Union for countries like Ukraine and Moldova. The so-called “preparatory space” would allow countries to reach the standards of...

In this week’s edition: Ukraine's Black Sea woes, post-EUCO hangover and Kazakh referendum.

A number of European countries have stepped up efforts to reopen maritime corridors for the transport of Ukrainian grain, possibly with the help of a third-party security guarantor, but it remains unclear if Russia would agree to any deal.

On Friday (3 June), Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev gave the shortest speech of his career – only three minutes, expressing the ambition “to make New Kazakhstan a reality” in which social justice would be the principal value.

The EU must speed up the replacement of Russian gas in its energy mix and dramatically increase investment in renewable energy infrastructure, senior liberal political leaders said on Friday (3 June).

Austria, Germany, Malta, Greece, Denmark, Croatia and Cyprus can boast of 90% “excellent bathing water quality” as of the EU’s 2021 bathing water report. Overall, 84.8% of bathing sites across the bloc were rated excellent.

EU governments must increase their transparency and accountability on lobbying, said the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) of the Council of Europe in an annual report published on Thursday (2 June).

As French President Emmanuel Macron recently promised to overhaul the functioning of hospitals, EURACTIV France takes a closer look at what the new left-wing alliance formed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon is proposing for the ailing health sector.

This weekend will mark 100 days passed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And as things stand, we might be in for a long haul.