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Russian energy giant Gazprom’s decision to cut supplies to Poland means Poland is now fully independent from Russia, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced during a press briefing on Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, Gazprom halted gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract...

1,400 Ukrainian refugees in Portugal have been given work contracts, and 29,000 more jobs await refugees across the country, Labour Minister Ana Mendes Godinho announced on Wednesday. “We have 1,400 work contract contracts signed with these Ukrainian citizens,” Mendes Godinho...

Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles is “politically unfit” and should resign over her inability to clarify Spain’s “worst espionage scandal of the last decades”, the pro-independence president of the Catalan regional government Pere Aragonès said on Wednesday. Last week, Citizen...

The Italian government is ready “to contribute to finding a lasting solution to the crisis,” Prime Minister Mario Draghi told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the phone on Wednesday. “The conversation focused on the latest developments in the situation on...

Ukrainian refugee children will be taught in English and Ukrainian in Danish schools, according to an agreement backed by a large majority in the Danish Folketing on Wednesday. The news was announced via a government press release and was backed...

Fewer Ukrainian refugees than expected have applied for asylum and protection in Sweden, and some of them have already returned to Ukraine, said Integration and Migration Minister Anders Ygeman during a press conference on Wednesday. “There has also been a...

Russia is still supplying the Netherlands with gas even as it refuses to pay for it in roubles since the country’s state-owned companies have direct contracts with Russia, NOS reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to cut off countries...

The government cabinet has agreed on a supplementary budget by taking on €39.2 billion extra debt this year to help soften the economic blow caused by Russian sanctions and the war in Ukraine. “We are dealing with two crises,” Finance...

The Kremlin’s decision to cut off gas to Bulgaria has wholly exposed the positions of the leading political players in Sofia and caused a complete rupture in relations between Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and President Rumen Radev. Radev sharply attacked the government...

Athens has not ruled out having its Russian gas flows cut off – like Poland and Bulgaria – on 20-21 May, government spokesperson Giannis Oikonomou said, adding that it would not come as a surprise. Greece’s next payment to Gazprom...

Russia’s relations with Finland and Sweden will worsen if they join NATO, the First Deputy Chairman of the International Committee of the State Duma Dmitry Novikov said in an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestiya, adding, this would not rule out cooperation...

The Paris public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation after the internet network was sabotaged in the Paris region and east of the country. On Wednesday night (27 April), unidentified individuals cut a number of internet cables in the space...

The Czech Financial Analytical Office, which has the power to freeze the assets of Russian oligarchs, is complaining about Cyprus’ reluctance to provide information on the owners of companies – meaning Czech efforts to find and punish Russian oligarchs often...

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday (27 April) a one-year suspension of import duties on all Ukrainian goods not covered by an existing free trade deal to help the country's economy during the war with Russia.

Croatia has made ensuring food security a key focus in light of the crisis in Ukraine, rolling out a number of measures to help producers cope with the fallout from the war. EURACTIV Croatia reports.

The head of the EU's flagship cybersecurity agency has warned that its incident reporting system is too bureaucratic and "does not work", and called for a more resilient system, as well as a better legislative environment and information sharing with member states.

The EU response to the COVID-19 pandemic had to happen fast, but critics quickly highlighted the lack of transparency - especially with the vaccine contracts. These critics are not done fighting.

Negotiations over uniting the French left ahead of the legislative elections in June are underway but senior officials of the parties involved are split over calls to rally behind radical-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. EURACTIV France reports.

Between a high rate of abstention and a vote "against the far-right", is Emmanuel Macron really "the worst elected president of the Fifth Republic", as his far-left opponent Jean-Luc Mélenchon quipped on election night? 

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday (27 April) scrapping for one year all EU tariffs and quotas on products imported from Ukraine, in a bid to support the Ukrainian economy that is suffering heavy losses due to the ongoing Russian invasion.