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Denmark is contributing a Harpoon launcher and missiles to support Ukraine, said US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, after 20 countries pledged to send Ukraine fresh military aid in a virtual meeting on Monday. Twenty different countries, including Denmark, have announced...

Sweden’s elderly and at-risk groups will receive a fifth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren announced at a press conference on Monday. From 1 September, the elderly and people in risk groups are recommended to receive...

Austria further relaxed COVID-19 measures on Tuesday, while Vienna chose to keep its obligation to wear FFP2 masks on public transport and in shops. At a press conference on Tuesday (24 May), Health Minister Johannes Rauch from the Green party...

France’s new Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, travelled to Germany on Tuesday to highlight the importance of the Franco-German relationship. At a joint press conference with the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Colonna said she wanted to follow “in the footsteps...

Germany’s federal election commissioner has argued that last September’s parliamentary elections should be repeated in six Berlin districts that have been plagued by mishaps around the polls. During a session of the Bundestag’s election control committee, Chief Election Commissioner Georg...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to face the verdict on lockdown-breaking parties on Wednesday, when Sue Gray, the senior civil servant tasked with investigating parties held at his Downing Street residence at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is...

Spain is ready to cope with the impact of Russian gas shortages Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told the Davos summit as part of a joint and coordinated “Mediterranean front” together with Italy, Portugal and Greece. In an exclusive interview with...

Tensions around the Northern Ireland Protocol appear to be a “manufactured issue” and it is now “up to London to help us all find a solution,” US Congressman Richard Neal told reporters in Dublin on Monday. Neal is leading a...

A Dutch coalition filed a petition on Tuesday calling on the EU Court of Justice to look into the sanctions Brussels imposed on Russian state media like Russia Today and Sputnik. The Dutch coalition, which includes the Dutch Association of...

The Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency has called for “a peaceful break-up” of the country, saying it had no future. Milorad Dodik, who has repeatedly made secessionist threats over the past decade, spoke to journalists in Banja...

The Commission is set to unveil plans on 25 May which will make it easier to confiscate frozen assets linked to serious illegal activities and suspected criminals, including those evading EU sanctions against Russia, according to documents seen by EURACTIV.

Polish company Level 11 did not deliver 200 drones ordered by the Ukrainian forces despite having received payment in advance, TVN24 TV station reports. Taras Troiak, a businessman from Kyiv responsible for ordering drones for the Ukrainian army, signed an...

US billionaire George Soros warned Tuesday (24 May) that "civilization may not survive" Russia's invasion of Ukraine but said Europe could have a stronger position against President Vladimir Putin regarding gas than it realises.

Energy was at the top of the agenda during German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s first trip to Africa. Scholz aims to facilitate fossil gas imports from Senegal, South Africa’s coal phase out and promised to support the development of their hydrogen economies.

A common and uniform registration process and more national protection centres are needed in the EU to help protection children fleeing the war in Ukraine, write Dragos Pislaru and Adrián Vázquez Lázara.

Why do some European leaders keep saying that it may take decades before Ukraine can join the EU? Out of a pure sense of self-preservation.

In her closing speech at the Conference of the Future of Europe (CoFoE), Ursula von der Leyen made a historic declaration on the fundamental role of citizen participation. This has allowed reflection on another historical instant in the Brussels Parliament, writes Magali Plovie.

Ecological Transition Minister Amélie de Montchalin and Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher will be working under the newly appointed Prime Minister in charge of 'ecological and energy planning'. EURACTIV France reports.

“It is our moral obligation to create what I would call a European Political Community”. The words used by Emmanuel Macron as President of the Council of the European Union, to wrap up one year of work of the Conference on the Future of Europe (COFOE) confirms that a profound reform of the EU is becoming a moral imperative.

Japan scrambled jets after Russian and Chinese warplanes neared its airspace on Tuesday (24 May), when Tokyo was hosting the leaders of the Quad grouping of countries that includes the United States, Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said.