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Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OĽaNO) wants to develop a “special track” of Ukraine’s integration into the EU. Membership of Ukraine was also supported by president Zuzana Čaputová. Both of them are in close contact with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who...

A Texas software developer and a cook in British Columbia are among dozens of Americans and Canadians answering Ukraine's call for foreign volunteers to fight Russia's invasion.

Polish media, including leading newspapers, web news services and radio stations, have appealed to big tech companies to block accounts and pages connected to Russian government propaganda as Russia continues to wage war on Ukraine. The appeal concerns the accounts...

Ukraine’s ambassador to Portugal on Monday asked the Portuguese government to support the country’s accession to the EU and consider the possibility of breaking off relations with Russia, thanking the sanctions and military assistance. “The sanctions introduced by the EU,...

Portugal’s contribution to the European package to supply weapons to the Ukrainian army will be around “€8-10 million”, Defence Minister João Gomes Cravinho announced on Monday. Speaking to the Lusa news agency, after having participated by videoconference in the meeting...

It is time to face it. The EU is pursuing a titanesque task: defining a regulatory framework that can support the massive development of a continent-wide hydrogen economy from scratch.

Spain will soon deploy troops on the border between its NATO allies and Russia, Defence Minister Margarita Robles announced on Monday. “NATO’s position is to reinforce the borders of the allied countries and Spain will be there without any doubt”,...

Lithuania is “ready to accept up to 2,000 refugees that are in Moldova and transfer them to Lithuania,” Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė announced in a Facebook post on Monday. The decision came after Monday’s meeting of the interior ministers of Lithuania, Poland, Latvia,...

Denmark will supply Ukraine with high-tech weapons, said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a short press conference alongside Defence Minister Morten Bødsko on Sunday, adding that Danes are free to fight for Ukraine. “Right now we are seeing a completely...

Ireland will primarily contribute non-lethal supplies as part of the EU’s military aid package for Ukraine after deciding not to provide weaponry in line with its policy of military neutrality. Read more. It is “very understandable” that the EU had...

Boris Johnson’s government is under pressure to open up the UK to Ukrainian refugees after Home Secretary, Priti Patel, said on Monday that the government would not waive visa requirements. On Monday, in a letter to Johnson, a group of...

The Austrian government will provide €15 million in aid, 10,000 helmets and fuel to assist the Ukrainian population as it suffers from the ongoing war waged by Russia, the government has said. “The humanitarian situation in Ukraine has been dramatic...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has “confirmed his willingness to commit” to stop strikes against civilians, preserve “all civilian infrastructure” and secure roads so they can be “free and safe” following a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Elysée said...

Kosovo’s request for accelerated NATO membership is an idea of EU and US lobbyists aimed at pressuring NATO members who do not recognise Kosovo to do so, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić claims, adding that “it is not the Kosovo Albanians’...

Public speeches endorsing the Russian invasion of Ukraine or praising the Russian Federation’s leaders could be considered a criminal offence, Czech Prosecutor General Igor Stříž warned in an official statement. Stříž stressed that under Czech law, support for crimes against...

“There is room” to take new measures at the EU level to mitigate the impact of war in Ukraine on energy supply and prices, Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, said Monday, adding that this can also be done at...

Large Finnish companies are distancing themselves from anything Russian in a show of solidarity towards Ukraine. K Group, a retailing conglomerate headquartered in Helsinki and one of the biggest trading sector operators in Northern Europe, announced Monday it would stop...

The €100 billion the German government announced it would spend on military equipment on Sunday does not mean extra spending is on the table in other areas, a German government spokesperson stressed on Monday. Germany will spend an extra €100...

New own-initiative report suggests that we should make better use of cohesion policy to reduce health inequalities.

The war in Ukraine has thrown the thorny issue of food security in the EU to the fore as the European Commission warns the EU agri-food sector to brace itself for impact, both now and in the long term.