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The Greens and the right-wing Les Républicains party are calling for donations from their supporters after falling short of the 5% threshold required in the French presidential election for minimum reimbursement of campaign spending. Both parties will only receive €800,000 to...

Germany’s family minister Anne Spiegel has stepped down after it was revealed she went on a four-week holiday while Rhineland-Palatinate’s environment minister as her region was hit by floods. Calls for the Green minister to step down had been mounting...

With less than two weeks to go before the parliamentary elections, the front runners to become the next prime minister are yet to face off in debates. Prime Minister Janez Janša has not appeared in a single debate yet, focusing...

Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger did not rule out the delivery of Soviet-made Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine after it had already delivered the air defence system S-300. After meeting with his Belgian counterpart Alexander de Croo, Heger on Monday...

Portugal will support the EU’s proposal to include oil in the sanctions against Russia, Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho said in Luxembourg on Monday. The proposal has been agreed on in principle by EU members and is currently in the...

An International anti-corruption court to combat large-scale forms of corruption needs to be established by like-minded countries, foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra said during a meeting with EU foreign ministers on Monday. Hoekstra and other EU foreign ministers met with Chief...

OPEC told the European Union on Monday (11 April) that current and future sanctions on Russia could create one of the worst ever oil supply shocks and it would be impossible to replace those volumes, and signalled it would not...

The United Nations is increasingly hearing accounts of rape and sexual violence in Ukraine, a senior UN official told the Security Council, as a Ukrainian human rights group accused Russian troops of using rape as a weapon of war.

During a visit to the Kremlin, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer urged Putin to investigate war crimes in Ukraine and establish humanitarian corridors, but the proposals were not well recieved.

Ukraine on Monday (11 April) said tens of thousands of people have likely been killed in Russia's assault on the southeastern city of Mariupol while the country's rights ombudswoman accused Russian forces in the region of torture and executions.

The EU on Monday (11 April) decided to halt its military training missions in Mali but will keep a presence in the Sahel, the bloc's top diplomat said.

The WHO announced on Monday (11 April) that a one-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine gives “solid protection” against cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer among women - a promising discovery considering the global shortage of HPV vaccines.

Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate facing president Emmanuel Macron in the second round of voting on 24 April, wants to clamp down on digital platforms and even create a "free, public social network" if they fail to cooperate with her.

After launching a dirty war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has found himself isolated in the West, but he can still count on international support, including from some of the world's most populous countries.

The two European Parliament co-rapporteurs finalised the Artificial Intelligence (AI) draft report on Monday (11 April), covering where they have found common ground. The most controversial issues have been pushed further down the line.

Wind energy will play a key role in helping Europe break away from Russian fossil fuels and increase its energy independence, but slow permitting and strains on the supply chain need to be tackled if Europe wants a fast rollout of wind power, according to Sven Utermöhlen.

It is understandable that the EU is reorganising the fundamentals of its agricultural model in terms of strategic autonomy after the Ukraine war and the effects of both COVID-19 and climate crises, an official of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation told EURACTIV in an interview.

This month’s “10 Most Urgent” list from the One Free Press Coalition features journalists covering the war in Ukraine. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of people are fleeing, hundreds are dying, and journalists are risking their lives to present...

The European Union's executive is drafting proposals for an EU oil embargo on Russia, the foreign ministers of Ireland, Lithuania and the Netherlands said on Monday (11 April), although there is still no agreement to ban Russian crude.

Plastic drinks bottles made from PET have been heralded as the most circular, but there are questions about whether this is really the case, and more needs to be done to ensure they are recycled in a closed-loop, writes Dorota Napierska.