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The European Parliament has included a debate on the drought in the Iberian Peninsula on the agenda for next week’s plenary session after the PSD delegation requested an urgent discussion on the situation in Portugal. The decision to schedule a...

Turkey's broadcasting watchdog has given three international news agencies 72 hours to obtain an operating licence or else have access to their platforms blocked, one of its members said on Wednesday (9 February).

People should not speculate about scenarios and hypotheses of war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Wednesday in Kyiv. It is time for diplomacy and dialogue, Albares of the governing socialist PSOE party stressed in a brief...

Boris Johnson on Wednesday warned that the UK would suspend the Northern Ireland protocol if the EU did not show ‘common sense’. “We must fix it (the problems with the so-called Northern Ireland protocol), and with goodwill and common sense,...

The government is considering relaxing COVID-19 restrictions, spokesman Gabriel Attal announced at the end of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, where he reiterated his government’s willingness to abolish the vaccine pass if the situation in hospitals improves. On when...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov provided the prosecutor’s office with a list of names of Bulgarians who are publicly known to have been involved in crimes, but which the prosecution service has ignored. In early December, the Bulgarian government came to power with a...

The Sejm, parliament’s lower chamber, rejected the Senate’s veto of a draft amendment to the education law, which, according to its critics, will enhance the government’s control over schools and lead to the politicisation of education. The bill, which now...

The Florence Prosecutors’ office on Wednesday requested the prosecution of 11 suspects, including senator and Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi, regarding possible irregularities that occurred in the funding of Open, of which Renzi is considered to be the de facto director. Open...

Mika Niikko has resigned as chair of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee following strong cross-party condemnation over a controversial tweet on Ukraine, NATO and French President Emmanuel Macron. On Twitter on Tuesday, Niikko, who represents the nationalist Finns Party, suggested...

If inflation does not decrease by March, the head of Germany’s Federal Bank, Joachim Nagel said he would insist the European Central Bank (ECB) take action. His announcement comes after experts predicted the continuation of high inflation rates. “If the...

Protesters set out from southern France in what they call a "freedom convoy" that will converge on Paris and Brussels to demand an end to COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by demonstrators who have blocked a Canadian border crossing.

Mali's ruling junta said Wednesday (9 February) that it was in talks with the West African bloc ECOWAS and other organisations to find a "compromise" on restoring civilian rule.

Negotiators aim to include organic agriculture in the EU's agricultural statistics review and digital technologies can provide a creative way to reduce any additional burden on farmers, the file's rapporteur Petros Kokkalis told EURACTIV in an interview.

The buzzword in EU institutions ahead of next week’s EU–African Union summit in Brussels is ‘partnership’. In early February, Kenya was the first African state to receive an EU offer to be a ‘strategic partner’, with the promise of closer political dialogue across a range of issues and new investment.

EU countries need to further develop tracking tools to monitor vaccine rates, the director of the EU's infectious disease agency (ECDC) said, amongst talks of centring the role of digital health in preventative care.

The full potential of health data will not be realised until certain legal barriers standing in the way are overcome, according to a new independent analysis welcomed by the Danish government.

While health did not feature as a topic at the previous EU-African Union (AU) summit back in 2017, it certainly will do at the upcoming summit next week.

The Netherlands' central bank (DNB) said on Wednesday (9 February) it deeply regretted the important role many of its early directors played in the 19th-century slave trade, as shown by an independent investigation into the bank's early years.

It is clear that the EU must change its approach to counter China and engage in a more explicit realpolitik designed to counter Beijing’s moves, particularly in its own backyard, writes Robert Veldhuizen.

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