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Andalusia will hold early elections on 19 June, the President of the region, Juanma Moreno, of the centre-right PP, has announced, paving the way for a possible coalition government with the far-right if his party does not obtain a majority....

Wholesale electricity market gas prices will go from €90 to around €50 in May to benefit Iberian customers, according to a “political agreement” with the European Commission, Spain and Portugal announced on Tuesday. The agreement, which has yet to be...

Danish-Swedish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan wants to hold election rallies in Uppsala and Stockholm on 1 May despite the violence his rallies caused over the Easter weekend, press agency TT has reported. Paludan attracted worldwide attention after he attempted to...

Finland should do more to tackle the hate speech the small Jewish community faces in the country, the European Commission and its antisemitism watchdog have said. On her recent visit to Finland, the EU’s antisemitism watchdog Katharina von Schnurbein pointed...

Dublin will establish a new subcommittee to oversee the government’s response to the war in Ukraine, modelled on the body launched to manage the COVID-19 crisis. The committee will be made up of senior officials, including the Taoiseach Micheál Martin,...

UK imports from the EU fell by 25% compared to those from elsewhere in 2021, according to new research from the LSE Centre for Economic Performance published on Tuesday. “It appears the UK simply stopped selling a lot of products...

Russia halted gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract on Wednesday (26 April), in a deepening of the rift between the West and Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni discussed the economic impact of the invasion of Ukraine, EU sanctions, and modernising the EU’s fiscal rules with  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and paid a visit to the port of Rotterdam on Tuesday. Gentiloni...

Finland and Sweden cannot join the NATO alliance as long as Bosnia and Herzegovina does not change its electoral law, President Zoran Milanović said on Tuesday. The statement triggered strong reactions from Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, while the foreign...

Irish airline Ryanair has filed a complaint before the European Commission, accusing the Polish government of unfairly favouring Polish airline LOT by prioritising it in operating connections to alleviate the effects of a temporary crisis in Polish aviation. At the...

Coalition partner, the Five Star Movement (5SM) is against Italy sending new military equipment to Ukraine as recently announced by Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini, claiming the government should first report its move to parliament. “Italy will send new military equipment,...

If a majority hostile to president Emmanuel Macron is formed in the June parliamentary elections, France’s foreign policy risks losing credibility, weakening the country’s and Europe’s influence on the international stage, analysts have warned. Looking back at history’s complex cohabitation...

France is proposing several changes to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act to ensure better alignment with the new legislative framework, the EU’s legislation that regulates market surveillance and conformity assessment procedures.

There is a 'good chance' that transnational lists at the European elections 'could fly', according to the EU lawmaker seeking to take the proposal into law.

The war in Ukraine is painfully exposing the decline of German leadership in Europe. Once referred to as the European ‘hegemon’ during the euro crisis, Berlin is now showing hesitance and indecisiveness instead of leading Europe through what could be described as the crisis of the century.

Europe's transition to a sustainable and digital society is only possible with a strategic approach to the raw materials needed to manufacture chips, electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies, the EU's internal market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Monday (25 April).

Though there may be a budding optimism that the worst impacts of the COVID crisis are over, for the many businesses put on ice by pandemic restrictions, the thaw will be long and gradual.

Discontent with the absence of a hoped-for electoral reform in neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zagreb has blasted as "illegitimate" the upcoming elections in BiH, while the European Commission repeated they were key for the fragile Balkan country's European future.

The European Union warned Tuesday (26 April) that Russia's invasion of Ukraine risks setting off a fresh nuclear disaster in Europe, 36 years after the accident at the Chernobyl plant.

Thanks to efforts to diversify oil suppliers and with support from the Polish government, Germany is days away from being independent of Russian oil, Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said.