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The building of the European External Action Service was damaged by violent demonstrators on Sunday (23 January) during protests against COVID-19 restrictions with participants from across the EU.

The government this week will announce its decision regarding the construction in the northern Uppland region of a repository for nuclear fuel that has been removed after being used in a nuclear reactor. Environment Minister Annika Strandhäl promised on 20...

Päivi Räsänen, a Christian Democratic MP ex-party chair and interior minister from 2011 to 2015,will be in court Monday following her comments on homosexuality, which she called “a developmental disorder”. Räsänen, a medical doctor by profession, made comments on the Luther Foundation...

Ireland has removed almost all pandemic restrictions following advice from public health officials on Friday (21 January). Most of the existing COVID-19 restrictions were lifted from Saturday at 6 am, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced in a press conference Friday evening,...

Drug smuggling in the southern state of Carinthia has increased significantly with hard drugs like cocaine and heroin being smuggled via the Balkan route, the courts have warned. “We used to talk about grams, but today we talk about kilos...

MEP Gilbert Collard announced on Saturday that he would join the ranks of far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour just three days after another Rassemblement National (RN) member left Marine Le Pen’s party. “I think that a day will come when Marine...

Coalition partner Left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) and eight other left-wing parties signed a joint manifesto making clear their “total rejection” of a Spanish mission in the Black Sea and Bulgaria to support NATO if tensions in Ukraine continue to...

Bulgaria will host up to seven Eurofighter jets from Spain and two stealth F-35 fighter jets from the Netherlands to protect the country’s airspace in the midst of the Ukrainian crisis, Defence Minister Stefan Yanev confirmed on 22 January. The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has so far cost the national economy €350 billion, new data published on Sunday by the German Economic Institute shows. Meanwhile, the government lowered its growth forecast for 2022. According to the institute’s analysis, the bulk of...

More and more children have been contracting COVID after the opening of schools, news website News247 has reported, despite the overall drop of cases in the total population. About 45,000 children were infected with coronavirus last week, which shows an increase of...

The Czech government wants to buy a stake in an LNG terminal in a neighbouring country to diversify its energy supplies. With Germany and Poland being the only two neighbouring countries currently building LNG terminals, Czechia will likely favour cooperation...

Taliban and Western diplomats meet in Oslo on Monday for talks on Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis and human rights, especially those of women whose freedoms have been curbed by the hardline Islamists.

The European Commission has set an objective for all packaging placed on the EU market to be "reusable or recyclable in an economically viable way by 2030”. In this special report, EURACTIV looks at the implications for so-called "flexible packaging" such as crisp packets, which are considered hard to recycle.

The Omicron variant has moved the COVID-19 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in Europe, the WHO Europe director said Sunday (23 January). “It’s plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of...

Turkish Cypriots cast their ballots on Sunday (23 January) in a snap legislative election in the northern third of the Mediterranean island after a campaign dominated by an economic crisis.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU from a global perspective. You can subscribe to receive our newsletter here. In this week’s edition: Western diplomacy over Ukraine, Belarus’ food embargo weapon and EU foreign intelligence ideas....

The European Union is talking with partners about the potential for increasing gas supplies to the bloc, Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said after a meeting with European energy ministers in France on Saturday (22 January).

The European Parliament has adopted recommendations for tougher and more effective animal protection rules during live transports. Some, however, bemoan lacking ambition and call for a hard limit on the duration of journeys.

Several EU interior ministers came together on Friday (21 January) to discuss how to step up the protection of EU external borders but failed to agree on a common approach, with options ranging from building fences on the borders to strengthening Schengen and migration legislation. 

Citizens’ recommendations are “at the heart of the process” of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), Dubravka Šuica said in an interview with EURACTIV. If the recommendations include changes to treaties, the Commission will support them, in line...