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The Russian Embassy in Poland decided not to go ahead with the planned Victory Day march on Monday after city authorities and the Polish foreign ministry slammed the initiative, the embassy announced on its website. The embassy planned to place...

Spain is becoming one of Europe’s new hydrogen hubs, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a press conference in Barcelona on Friday, adding that the country has always been a “front runner” in the NextGenerationEU plan. “This...

Most lawmakers in the Riksdag want to reduce the number of wolves in Sweden by nearly half, even if this means they have to defy the EU. After divisions and major disagreements in the Riksdag’s environment and agriculture committee, a...

Russian forces bombed a village school in eastern Ukraine killing about 60 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Russia prepared to mark the 9 May anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

Politicians in the Republic of Ireland have called for the swift formation of an executive in the Northern Irish assembly following the historic election result this weekend. Nationalist party Sinn Féin, which supports a united Ireland, won a majority of seats...

The Dutch aid group, Zeilen van Vrijheid, has sent its seventh humanitarian aid convoy comprised of seven vehicles to Ukraine, Dutch News reports. The convoy includes a custom-made neonatal ambulance with items such as a baby incubator with a specialised neonatal ventilator...

Bulgaria wants a two-year delay before joining the EU in banning Russian oil imports, said Radoslav Ribarski, chairman of the National Assembly’s energy committee. Meanwhile, negotiations at the EU level to impose an oil embargo on Moscow are stuck, with...

Austria’s armed forces’ union is calling for Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner to be ousted, claiming she has rendered the armed forces leaderless since 1 May. On 30 April, Tanner announced the reorganisation of top-level command structures, which she said was in...

Re-elected President Emmanuel Macron was sworn in at the official inauguration ceremony at the Élysée Palace on Saturday (7 May), with 450 guests, including members of his government and former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, in attendance. Macron declared...

The Social Democrats came third in the state election of Schleswig Holstein, behind the Greens and the night’s big winner, the conservative CDU, logging their worst election result in the state since the end of World War II. According to...

Berlin is working with Bratislava and Prague on agreements to unlock further tank and heavy weapons supplies to Ukraine as both countries negotiate a “chain swap” to replace weapons and tanks Czechia and Slovakia are sending to Ukraine. Negotiators of...

Italy would be in trouble if Russia decided to curb its gas supplies to the country in the next few months, Ecological Transition minister Roberto Cingolani told Festival Città Impresa in an interview on Sunday. Italy currently imports about 29 billion cubic...

Finnish electricity companies are refusing to sign electricity contracts with Russian search engine Yandex, which has a data centre near Helsinki, due to suspicions it may be distributing war propaganda. The data centre, which has been operational since 2015, is...

Germany wants to use the Conference on the Future of Europe as a starting point to further develop the EU, possibly change treaties and abolish unanimity decision-making for EU foreign policy matters.

Love or loathe him; Boris Johnson is a lucky politician. Just as months of scandals about lockdown parties were threatening to overwhelm him, the war in Ukraine made people forget about them. In last week’s municipal elections across the UK,...

Serbia will find itself under tremendous pressure to quickly recognise Kosovo following the statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who recently compared Kosovo’s right to independence to the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said in...

As the EU poises to mark its anniversary on Monday (9 May), it is morphing into a more muscular global actor, a transformation accelerated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Seventy-three MEPs have called for $300 billion in seized Russian funds and assets to fund the Ukrainian military and the country's reconstruction in a letter sent to EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell. 

As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday (8 May).

With President Vladimir Putin set to address crowds on Moscow's Red Square as part of the Victory Day Parade marking the anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender in 1945, he will likely reveal what Russia's next steps in Ukraine will be.