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The Hungarian government is working hard to help Kyiv sell grain abroad, said Agriculture Minister István Nagy, who described the instability of Ukraine’s grain export in light of Russia’s invasion as an “emergency”. “We have an emergency situation, I can...

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Russia, and Poland's president said any loss of Ukrainian territory would be a "huge blow" to the entire West as he warned against appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Poles in Ukraine will be granted “special legal status” similarly to the one Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war receive when entering Poland, according to a draft bill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has promised he would submit to parliament. Polish President Andrzej...

Almost half of all Spaniards living in rented houses in 2020 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with the situation likely to have declined further, data released by Spain’s Central Bank found, financial daily Cinco Días reported. In...

Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet and its affiliate Legion targeted thousands of websites, including government websites, in a coordinated cyberattack on Friday, Italian police reported. Russian hackers used DDoS attacks to target the foreign ministry’s website, the education and cultural heritage...

Russia’s decision to stop selling gas to Finland is not related to the country’s decision to apply for NATO membership, parliament Speaker Matti Vanhanen from the Center party said on Saturday. “It would be easy to say that decisions concerning...

Democratic Congressman Richard Neal on Sunday urged the UK government to negotiate in “good faith” with the EU to resolve the long-running impasse over the Northern Ireland protocol. “A clear message that we offered to the UK: if they want...

Polish President Andrzej Duda, speaking in Kyiv on Sunday (22 May), underscored his nation's key support for embattled Ukraine as Russian forces pursued a relentless bombardment of frontline cities in the east.

Austrian authorities have frozen a total of €254 million in Russian wealth across 97 accounts, including five properties linked to Russian oligarchs targeted by sanctions, the chancellery told reporters. The inter-ministerial task force, which includes the Office for the Protection...

Newly appointed Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne defended the pension reform Macron wishes to implement during his term of office in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) on Sunday. The president has announced an increase in the legal retirement...

The leaders of Hungary and Serbia reaffirmed their strategic partnership over the weekend after being re-elected last month, with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić saying they had agreed that Serbia could store some of its energy on the territory of its...

Of the 9,582 companies in the Czech Republic with Russian ownership, dozens have changed their citizenship since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to avoid sanctions or outflow of clients. As news site Seznam Zprávy reported, 154 owners of...

Portugal will provide technical support to Ukraine in its EU accession process and Kyiv’s European option should be welcomed “with open arms,” Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa said on Saturday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s deputy chief of staff will visit...

Finland will proceed towards NATO membership at the same pace as Sweden, parliament Speaker Matti Vanhanen from the Center party told broadcaster YLE in an interview on Saturday. Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the NATO alliance on 18...

The heads of each house of the Irish legislature met with several Ukrainian officials, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,  while on a recent visit to Kyiv. Seán Ó Fearghaíl, chair of the Dáil, the lower house of Ireland’s parliament, and...

After the presidential elections last month, voters in France will elect a new national parliament three weeks from now, choosing 577 Members of Parliament (MPs) for five years through two rounds of votes in single-member constituencies. If no candidate receives...

Ukraine can defeat Russia and even regain control of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, said former Slovak Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš, noting that anything other than the military victory of Ukraine would be a dangerous compromise. Mikloš is the former advisor...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU from a global perspective. You can subscribe to receive our newsletter here. In this week’s edition: Ukraine reconstruction, NATO path and enlargement priorities. When Russia invaded Ukraine, history has...

Russia on Saturday (21 May) stopped providing natural gas to neighbouring Finland, which has angered Moscow by applying for NATO membership, after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in rubles. Following Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Moscow...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday (21 May) said Turkey would not look "positively" on Sweden and Finland's NATO bids unless its terror-related concerns were addressed, despite broad support from other allies including the United States.