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Portugal will contribute €2.1 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, announced Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa on Thursday. This amount, of which €1 million is destined for the UN’s responses, was transmitted by Costa at the High-Level Donors’ Conference for...

Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro should face a vote of no confidence in parliament according to the Civic Platform (PO), the largest opposition party, backed by the agrarian Polish People’s Party (PSL). Ziobro, Poland’s justice minister and prosecutor general, is a...

The European Parliament passed on Thursday (5 May) a resolution on the impact of the Russian aggression on the transport and tourism sector, which calls on Russia to return over 400 airplanes leased from foreign companies it has stolen.

Seven Danish nationals working at the Danish Embassy in Moscow have been given two weeks to leave Russia, Russian news agency TASS agency and Danish broadcaster DR reported. The foreign ministry informed DR News that four diplomats and three embassy...

Even if they have not committed a crime, foreign nationals linked to gang crime must be deported, Ulf Kristersson, leader of the right-wing party, the Moderates, told the SVT Morgonstudion on Thursday. To tackle serious crime, the Moderates want to...

A Russian troll farm that has indirect backing from the Kremlin has targeted Finnish media outlets and their journalists and editors as part of a harassment campaign. A troll farm “Cyber Front Z” has posted on its messaging application Telegram...

Croatia has taken further steps in preparations for joining the eurozone, as Central Bank Governor Boris Vujčić said Zagreb is only waiting for the confirmation of its admission to the euro area before it starts large-scale printing of euros. Confirmation...

Former US President Donald Trump will not attend this year’s annual largest and most influential gathering of American conservatives in Budapest this month despite speculation to the contrary, EURACTIV’s media partner Telex reported. The Hungarian Centre for Fundamental Rights (Alapjogokért Központ), a...

Spain’s intelligence agency has spied, with legal authorisation, on about twenty pro-independence Catalan politicians, Paz Esteban, the director of the Spanish National Intelligence Centre, acknowledged before a special parliamentary commission on Thursday. In a close-doors session in parliament, Esteban presented documentation on...

Irish President Michael D. Higgins has criticised the involvement of billionaires in decision-making on public discourse, describing it as “dangerous narcissism”, in particular reference to Elon Musk buying Twitter. Speaking at an event in Dublin on Thursday for climate and...

Recently re-elected President Emmanuel Macron is rallying his supporters ahead of the June legislative elections, while the left is bidding to take over the National Assembly. The leaders of the presidential majority reached an agreement on Thursday (5 May) and...

Bulgaria and Greece agreed to seek joint gas deliveries for southeastern Europe and decrease its reliance on Russian gas amid the war in Ukraine, Bulgarian Energy Minister Alexander Nikolov said on Thursday (5 May).

The UK government appears to have shelved plans to introduce a bill that would override the controversial Northern Ireland protocol.

After Ukrainian authorities said in mid-April that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was not welcome in Ukraine over his alleged ties to Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reconciled his differences with Steinmeier in a phone call on Thursday.

Scores of Ukrainians remained trapped on 5 May in Mariupol steel works that has been rocked by heavy explosions as Russian forces fought for control of Ukraine's last stronghold in the ruined city and the UN rushed to evacuate civilians.

In recognition of the upcoming EU mental health awareness week (9-13 May), this week in our Beyond the Byline podcast we are asking: How has our mental health been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine? What...

EU lawmakers backed on Thursday (5 May) a proposal by the EU Parliament's civil liberties committee to extend until June 2023 the EU's digital COVID certificate, set to expire this summer.

A leading European Parliament lawmaker has warned against the potential “unintended consequences” of intervening in the EU carbon market, amid growing calls from some governments and industries to curb the activity of financial actors taking speculative positions in the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS).

For those who don’t know Russia well, we should start by saying that in that country, 9 May is elevated to a sort of religious extravaganza, like  Easter and Christmas wrapped into one.

A new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that obesity causes 1.2 million European deaths every year, while not a single EU country is on track to reach the target of reducing obesity rates by 2025.