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A new Brexit Freedoms Bill should end the supremacy of European law by ensuring EU law can be changed quickly the government announced on Tuesday as it unveiled the new laws it plans to take through parliament in the coming...

Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin has urged UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to abandon the Northern Ireland Protocol amid reports that London could be preparing to take unilateral action. On Tuesday (10 May), The Times reported that the government was set to...

The defence capability of the Nordic countries would be strengthened if Sweden and Finland chose to join NATO and if both countries had common defence planning within the NATO framework, Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist told Radio Ekot Tuesday. “Of course,...

Schools will teach national security skills and public spirit, Lithuania’s education and defence ministries have announced. Both ministries prepared a joint project for pupils in grades five to 10 with a strong practical focus on national defence skills and public...

Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Tuesday revealed the restructuring of his cabinet, including new additions, after two ministers resigned on Monday. Former Agriculture Minister Elisabeth Köstinger and Economy Minister Margarete Schramböck, both allies of ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, resigned abruptly on Monday (9 May), according...

Member states could agree on a Russian oil embargo this week, European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune told news channel LCI on Tuesday. Brussels wants all EU member states to agree on an embargo on Russian oil and is even considering...

Two in three Bulgarians fear Russia will use missile and bomb strikes on sites in Bulgaria, while more than half fear Russia could occupy it, a nationally representative sociological survey by the ESTAT agency on behalf of the Workshop for...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he understands that Slovakia cannot afford to immediately cut its Russian oil and gas supplies but warned of the country’s dependence in a speech before the Slovak National Council on Tuesday. Slovakia is one of...

Countries siding with Russia or abstaining from voting against the country in the UN should not be “punished”, European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen told a Europe Day seminar in Helsinki on Monday. The Finnish commissioner also said that...

North Rhine-Westphalia – or NRW, as many of its 18 million inhabitants call it – is Germany’s most populous region, and it will elect a new regional parliament this Sunday (15 May 2022). Due to its size, the results come...

Denmark has voiced its opposition to changing EU Treaties, just weeks ahead of a crucial referendum on its defence opt-out after Brussels hinted it could change treaties, so unanimity on issues like common defence policy is no longer needed. The...

The European Union's executive is looking to support Hungary in beefing up the eastern European state's oil pipelines, storage and refining capacity, a spokesman said on Tuesday (10 May), as Budapest dug its heels in over a Russian oil embargo.

Ukraine said on 10 May it would suspend the flow of gas through a transit point which delivers almost a third of the fuel piped from Russia to Europe through Ukraine, blaming Moscow for the development.

The Syrian humanitarian crisis remains among the EU’s top priorities, the bloc's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, said at the sixth pledging conference for the war-torn Middle-Eastern country in Brussels on Tuesday (10 May).

The European Parliament's environment committee (ENVI) is due to vote on mandatory CO2 standards for car manufacturers on Wednesday (11 May), with the possibility of calling for a 70% reduction target by the year 2030. EURACTIV France reports.

The European Commission is to put forward a generalised scanning obligation for messaging services, according to a draft proposal obtained by EURACTIV.

This year it will be remarkably tough to keep politics separate from the running of the world’s most-followed singing contest – and that is also why EURACTIV is stepping in with dedicated coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).

While Germany does not support a fast-tracked accession of Ukraine, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said that she supports the idea of a reform of the EU to allow Ukraine and other countries to integrate more deeply with the bloc.

A new report by the Albanian Insitute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) says the electorate wants more democratic progress in the EU candidate country, considered a hybrid, or only partly democratic, regime according to Freedom House.

REPowerEU must be a win for energy security, the climate and European competitiveness. With the right focus, the May package can propel a wave of sustainable heat pumps “made in Europe”.