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Italy’s inflation rate has reached a 26-year high of 4.8% mainly due to the increase in energy prices, preliminary estimates for January 2022 published by Italy’s national statistics institute (ISTAT) show. “The national consumer price index (CPI) for the entire...

The Supreme Court’s case against former Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg gathered dust for several weeks in the justice ministry before it was sent to the Prison Service, which is supposed to take over. Støjberg, a former minister from the Liberal...

The EU’s sustainable finance rules presented on Wednesday will award a “green” label to gas and nuclear power, which has prompted Austria and Luxembourg to announce a lawsuit. The European Commission’s proposal would primarily satisfy the “wishes of the nuclear...

Northern Ireland’s Agriculture minister Edwin Poots has ordered his officials to halt Irish Sea border checks from midnight on Wednesday, a move that could open the latest legal dispute over the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol. Poots, who is...

The UK government’s plans for an amnesty for prosecutions related to the Troubles would undermine the rule of law and bring further distress to victims’ families, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said on Wednesday. Martin spoke days after the 50th anniversary of “Bloody...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has obtained a €10.6 million loan from a Hungarian bank to finance her presidential election campaign, according to RTL radio on Wednesday. This comes after the presidential candidate for Rassemblement National said she was...

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has raised doubts about Germany’s military engagement in Mali, even though the federal government had recently ruled out a withdrawal of troops. “Considering the latest steps taken by Mali’s government, we need to honestly ask ourselves...

There are ongoing discussions on Finland possibly supporting Ukraine’s defence capability, Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen of the Centre party revealed. There are “different options” to help Ukrainian defence capability, Kaikkonen said in an email response to questions sent by the...

The Bulgarian Parliament’s legal committee adopted at first reading the justice ministry’s draft bill that eliminates the sale of Bulgarian investment citizenship or so-called “golden passports”. The scheme was met with several warnings from the European Commission and the European Parliament...

Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and floods have cost Europe almost 510 billion euros and around 142,000 lives over the past 40 years, according to a new report published Thursday.

The Data Act proposal defines the rules for sharing data, conditions for access by public bodies, international data transfers, cloud switching and interoperability, according to a draft seen by EURACTIV.

The Council of Europe on Wednesday (2 February) launched for only the second time in its history disciplinary action against Turkey over its failure to free activist Osman Kavala, with Ankara denouncing the decision as interference.

German authorities have banned the broadcasting of Russia Today's German-language TV programme on Wednesday (2 February) because it lacked the necessary media licence. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Turkish authorities have found the bodies of 12 migrants who froze to death near Greece, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Wednesday (2 January), accusing Greek guards of sending them back across the border without shoes.

Calling on the European Union to stay united, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday (2 February) that it is time Brussels goes into the specifics on the sanctions that would be imposed on Russia in case of...

While political opponents accuse Emmanuel Macron of entering the race for the Élysée Palace on the sly, the yet-to-be candidate is merely exploiting the privilege of outgoing presidents, traditionally allowed to delay their candidacy. Like his predecessors, Macron is careful...

The European Commission on Wednesday (2 February) proposed including nuclear and gas power in the bloc’s sustainable finance taxonomy, recognising their contribution to the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality goal “subject to clear limits and phase out periods”.

Kazakhstan’s Commissioner for Human Rights Elvira Azimova told EURACTIV on Wednesday (2 February) that her office takes seriously the reports that some of the people arrested following the protest in early January had been tortured and that testimonies had been extracted under duress.

Belgium's data watchdog found that a popular mechanism for managing user preferences in Europe violates several General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provisions, and it requested advertisers to delete the collected data.

The European Commission has presented its second delegated act for the EU’s sustainable finance rules and under certain conditions, nuclear power and gas will be labelled “green”, making German industry happy.