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The coordination of sanctions efforts against Russia will be tasked to former minister Stef Blok who was appointed National Coordinator for Sanctions Compliance and Enforcement on Monday. In his new role, Blok will focus on improving the implementation of sanctions and...

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will be travelling to Kyiv to show his support to Ukraine following a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “I spoke yesterday with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on the phone”, said Nehammer on Tuesday. “We discussed...

France’s anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened three new investigations over alleged “war crimes” perpetrated against French nationals in Ukraine. The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office can only look into acts committed against French citizens, it said in a press release, adding that war...

The US intelligence community knew seven days before Russia invaded Ukraine when exactly it would strike, Security and Intelligence Agency Director Daniel Markić told the Croatian-US Forum in Zagreb on Tuesday, adding that the US shared the information with Croatia,...

The Czech Republic is the first country to send Ukraine tens of T-72 tanks to help its army defend against Russian attacks, news site Echo24 reported on Tuesday. Armoured personnel carriers were also sent and both are considered a gift following an...

Hungary’s newly re-elected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party winning Sunday’s elections makes some Finnish analysts wonder whether Orbán could stand in the way of their NATO aspirations or ask NATO or the EU for something in return...

The United Kingdom, in partnership with Estonia, will host the European HQ of a new programme for NATO allies to develop new military technologies. The programme will “accelerate, test, evaluate and validate new technologies that address critical defence challenges and...

The European Commission may have focused only on €4 billion worth of coal in the latest sanctions package proposed on Tuesday but a total EU energy embargo covering Russian oil and gas has become inevitable. Germany and Austria are among...

Ukraine's president showed a harrowing video of dead civilians to the UN Security Council Tuesday (5 April) and called for "accountability" for apparent Russian atrocities, as fears grow that Moscow is preparing new offensives.

A new compromise text on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and law enforcement marks more swift progress on the AI Act in the EU Council, with the French Presidency aiming for at least a partial general approach in June.

German investigators announced on Tuesday (5 April) that they have shut down the servers of Russian-language Hydra Market, allegedly the world's highest-turnover illegal darknet marketplace, seizing cryptocurrency valued at around €23 million.

The European Commission has now backed the creation of an EU-wide protein strategy, U-turning on a previous position after persistent lobbying from MEPs and member states.

Moldova has been pledged €695 million in financial aid, it was announced in Berlin on Tuesday (5 April). The country, the poorest in Europe, is facing economic collapse due to the ongoing war in Ukraine on its eastern border.

The European Commission announced on Tuesday (5 April) that it will trigger a conditionality mechanism linking EU funds to the rule of law, just days after Hungary's general election saw Prime Minister Viktor Orban secure a fourth consecutive term.

In the latest French presidential election polls, the gap between Emmanuel Macron and opponent Marine Le Pen is narrowing, despite optimism from the incumbent's camp at a recent campaign meeting.

Even as massacred civilians are found in the streets and ditches of Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Germany still prefers short-term gains through the energy trade with Russia to protecting the rules based world order that made it rich....

The chief recommendation in the IPCC report on climate breakdown is the most difficult to implement – reducing demand. Essentially, this means calling on people to travel less.

As most humanitarian corridors are closed, a European non-profit health organisation is giving online training to doctors in Ukraine to help them face the wave of casualties from the conflict.

Putin’s blunder in Ukraine was that he compressed steps that normally take one full year into a mere 24 hours, and it is not clear what prompted him to behave in such an unusual manner, writes Evgenii Dainov.

As EU institutions are moving to regulate the crypto industry, European lawmakers have been subjected to unprecedented levels of online harassment. Two female members of the EU Parliament have been especially targeted by the predominantly male advocates of cryptocurrencies.