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Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the Republic of Congo President Dénis Sassou N’Guesso agreed on the “wide potential of the bilateral partnership, particularly in the energy sector”, Palazzo Chigi, Italy’s Council of State seat, said in a note on Tuesday....

The government’s new spring budget includes investments worth about SEK 35 billion (€3.8 billion) “to increase crisis preparedness”, Finance Minister Mikael Damberg announced in a press conference on Tuesday. “In the spring budget, we are investing in broad and important...

Irish Foreign and Defence Minister Simon Coveney spoke to the UN Security Council on Tuesday following his recent trip to Ukraine. Coveney visited Kyiv last week to meet with his Ukrainian counterparts, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Defence Minister Oleksii...

Despite the government’s promise to provide £220 million of humanitarian aid to help the victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, less than one-third of the money has been distributed, a leading UK lawmaker has revealed. Sarah Champion, a Labour MP...

Ukraine has received fighter planes and aircraft parts to bolster its air force in the face of Russia's invasion, the Pentagon said Tuesday (19 April), declining to specify the number of aircraft or their origin.

The Netherlands has reopened its Ukraine embassy, which will be run by the ambassador and a small staff in Lviv for the time being, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. While the Dutch embassy was initially based in Kyiv, it...

The United States, France and other allies discussed how to provide security guarantees to Ukraine during and after the war with Russia, a French presidency official said on Tuesday (19 April) as Moscow launched an all-out assault on eastern Ukraine.

The “historic” defence spending package announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will not be enough to make up for shortfalls in the country’s military spending, according to economists. “This €100 billion is all well and...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to be blocked from addressing Austria’s parliament as the far-right party FPÖ continues to withhold agreement. While the Social Democrat SPÖ has changed its mind and is now in favour of giving Zelenskyy the floor, the...

The British Embassy in Belgrade on Tuesday denied reports by several media outlets in Serbia about alleged arms exports from the UK to Kosovo, labelling them as totally bogus. “Certain Belgrade media outlets have published a complete fabrication about the...

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó travelled on Tuesday to the Turkish capital to visit the future 3,000 square metre building site of a new embassy in a sign of strengthening relations with Turkey. “The construction of the new 3,000 square...

Russia could intervene if Finland were to apply for NATO membership, Jussi Halla-aho, Chair of the nationalist Finns Party and head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, has warned. In early April, the foreign and defence ministry websites, together with the...

The various forces of the radical and far-right should unite ahead of the legislative elections in June, far-right candidate Éric Zemmour, who failed to make it to the presidential run-off after taking just 7.1% of the vote in the first...

Denmark will stop reliance on natural gas by 2030 even though this means production will increase in the short-term, the Danish government announced at a press conference on Tuesday. As part of the proposals in the new energy package branded...

According to a sociological survey 82% of Ukrainians believe in victory over Russia, and only 1% would accept peace at Russia’s conditions, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Russia will retaliate against Poland if its embassy in Warsaw stops working because it cannot receive fresh funds from Moscow, its ambassador warned on Tuesday (19 April).

Socialist MEP Kathleen Van Brempt was elected at a constitutive meeting on Tuesday (19 April). She will head up the work of the European Parliament’s new special COVID-19 committee, with the goal of better preparing the EU for future pandemics.

Easter break in Germany has been less peaceful than the German government might have hoped.

With five days to go before the final run-off of the French presidential election, the two remaining candidates are adopting opposing strategies as far-right candidate Marine Le Pen wants to be viewed as 'presidential material' while President Emmanuel Macron aims to get closer to the people. EURACTIV France reports.

The EU has been urged to step up its actions to prevent politicians, journalists, and activists from being hacked by foreign spyware following new revelations of politicians targeted by the controversial Pegasus software.