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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte gave the green light on Tuesday for bars, restaurants, and museums to reopen on Wednesday after the country had them closed for over a month. The decision came after Rutte cited “great tensions and cries...

Left-wing presidential candidate Christiane Taubira said she was in favour of “the creation of a European asylum agency” as she met the volunteers at migrant shelters in Briançon, a town bordering Italy in the Alps. The welcome of migrants is...

Today, CVD causes 37% of all deaths in the EU. CVD impacts the lives of 60 million Europeans. It is Europe’s leading cause of death in people under 65. As the ageing of Europe’s population progresses, we would expect these figures to increase further unless new and decisive actions are taken by public health authorities.

Every year more people across the EU are diagnosed with life-threatening conditions which can only be treated with plasma-derived medicines.

The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which is dominant in Denmark, appears more contagious than the more common BA.1 sub-lineage, Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said on Wednesday (26 January) in a national address.

In talks that lasted more than eight hours, political advisors from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany, who on Wednesday (26 January) met for talks in Paris, reaffirmed their commitment to uphold a ceasefire agreed in the so-called Minsk accords.

While Bulgaria will not just benefit from other’s security, Sofia de facto refused an additional presence of NATO forces on the country’s territory in connection with the Ukraine crisis and committed to resolving it diplomatically. The position of the Bulgarian government is...

Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OĽaNO) said he would support mandatory vaccination in case of a new, more dangerous variant that would fill hospitals and put pressure on healthcare systems. At the end of December, Heger asked the health ministry...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin told a joint press conference in Madrid that Russia should expect “serious consequences” if it invaded or showed military aggression towards Ukraine. Sánchez warned about “massive, extremely serious consequences” for...

Social Democrat Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has declined to convene a Defence Committee – a forum for consultation between the government and parliamentary party representatives on security and defence policy – over Ukraine despite calls from several opposition parties. She...

Lawmakers are divided beyond party divides following the Bundestag’s first debate about mandatory vaccines on Wednesday. The debate was meant as a first exchange of views on whether and how Germany should implement compulsory vaccination. MPs were divided without a...

If Ukrainians do not back down from their anti-minority policy, it will very much limit the Hungarian government’s ability to provide any kind of support, even in this conflict, Foreign Affairs Minister Péter Szijjártó said in an interview with pro-government Magyar...

Fifty years after "Bloody Sunday", Northern Ireland this weekend commemorates one of the most painful episodes during more than three decades of violence between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists.

The number of cars made in Britain fell last year to the lowest since 1956, reflecting a major shortage of semiconductors used for electronic components, broader COVID disruptions and the closure of a Honda factory.

Italy will ease coronavirus restrictions for arrivals from the rest of the EU from February, with passengers required to show proof of vaccination, recent recovery or a negative test, but not quarantine.

The lawmakers representing the different political groups met on Wednesday (26 January) to iron down the political priorities in view of the first political trilogue of the Digital Services Act (DSA) that will take place on 31 January.

Germany's agriculture ministry wants to approach the implementation of a national animal husbandry label "step by step", while also pushing an origin label at the EU level. EURACTIV Germany reports.

While France, as befits a true European heavyweight, undoubtedly hoped to leave its mark with a highly ambitious EU Council presidency, journalists may be left with vivid and not-so-great memories of these six months unless Paris shows a little more consideration for their work.

Migration, climate change mitigation and the fallout from the Covid pandemic are set to be the main bones of contention at the upcoming EU–African Union summit in Brussels, insiders to the talks have told EURACTIV.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned Croatian Ambassador Anica Džamić on Wednesday (26 January) following Croatian President Zoran Milanović's scathing comments about Ukraine, including that it is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and does not belong in NATO.