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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for more weapons to be delivered to Ukraine and Oslo to stop Russian ships from docking in their ports in an address to Norway’s parliament on Wednesday. President Zelenskyy requested additional weapons and reiterated the...

Ukrainian refugees arriving in Ireland may soon need to be housed in tent facilities as the government searches for properties available to use as accommodation. As of this week, over 14,600 refugees have arrived in Ireland from Ukraine since the...

The scheme allowing people to sponsor a Ukrainian refugee to stay in their home fox six months, in exchange for a £350 monthly payment from the government has resulted in the award of only 2,700 visas more than two weeks...

Jeroen van Wijngaarden, an MP in Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD wants to speed up the process of getting a permit to drill gas in the North Sea. A total of  50 billion cubic metres of gas can be extracted from the...

The government has followed Germany and triggered “an early emergency” mechanism to manage gas supplies in response to Russia saying it will only accept roubles for gas deliveries going forward. “With the early warning stage in the emergency plan, we...

French citizens who test positive for COVID-19 will be able to vote freely in the presidential elections on 10 and 24 April, government spokesperson Gabriel Attal has said. As France is currently facing a strong surge in COVID-19 cases and...

Russia has kept its word after Polish authorities ordered 45 Russian diplomats to leave Polish territory last week and now the Kremlin has announced retaliatory measures against Poland and frozen the embassy’s bank account in Moscow. Staff at the Polish...

Prime Minister Mario Draghi asked President Vladimir Putin to call a ceasefire as soon as possible “in order to protect the civilian population and support negotiating efforts” in a phone call on Wednesday. During a one-hour phone call, the PM...

Two Russian warplanes loaded with nuclear weapons violated Swedish airspace earlier in March, according to information provided to news programme TV4 Nyheter. A total of four Russian aircraft violated Swedish airspace off Gotland on 2 March, when Finland and Sweden...

Manuela Schwesig, the prime minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (where Nord Stream 2 was being built) has dropped her support for the pipeline, admitting for the first time that her long-standing advocacy for the contentious project was a mistake. Speaking at...

Germany is reportedly preparing to provide Ukraine with weaponry worth €300 million after weeks of protracting shipments from German weapon manufacturers.

During a call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pulled back on demanding that gas deliveries be paid in roubles, sparking criticism from Ukraine.

With the French presidential elections approaching on 10 and 24 April, the idea that the ballot could be stolen or rigged is gaining traction, a claim advanced by candidates from across the political spectrum who either seek to distract and manipulate or sincerely believe in this.

Faced with soaring electricity prices, the French government has introduced a tariff shield for the year 2022 to protect the most vulnerable households. However, this measure will not last forever, according to the spokesperson for French election candidate Valérie Pécresse.

New rules presented by the European Commission on Wednesday (30 March) aim to better protect consumers against false environmental claims and introduce a ban on greenwashing and planned obsolescence.

A wave of momentum for health initiatives washed over the EU following COVID-19. That is evident in the citizens’ recommendations formed in the Conference of the Future of Europe (CoFoE), which has now entered its final phase.

Presidential candidates in the French election race all want to reform the state of mental health care as the country's mental well-being significantly deteriorated because of the pandemic. EURACTIV France reports.

Giving citizens a say in decision-making beyond elections can help the leadership make better decisions, but sharing power requires a clear division of roles, politicians and experts have said. Citizen participation has increased rapidly in recent years and at all...

When Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007, the Russian ambassador to NATO and the EU named it one of the Kremlin’s “Trojan horses”, referring to the power Russia could exert on the EU through its new ties to Brussels.

EU lawmakers have been spammed with hundreds of emails from the crypto community attempting to influence a key committee vote on Thursday (31 March) regarding the information requirements on the transfers of cryptocurrencies. The legislation is a recast of the...