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According to Neovlivni.cz, the second audit of the European Commission on agricultural subsidies says Czech PM Andrej Babiš is in a conflict of interest because he still controls the Agrofert holding, one of the top Czech receivers of EU agriculture...

The delegation of the Venice Commission, an advisory body to the Council of Europe, is visiting Poland on 9-10 January to meet with Polish authorities regarding the most recent efforts by the ruling party to subjugate the judiciary. Earlier, Tomasz...

As of 1 January, each person living in Greece should make at least 30% of his payments by electronic means (including bank transfers, credit/debit cards etc). If not, an extra 22% tax will be applied. It is a major change...

In an interview with La Stampa daily, Italy’s Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova dumped the Nutriscore, a nutrition label that converts the nutritional value of foodstuff into a code of five letters. According to her, this labelling wouldn’t provide full information...

Government departments and agencies that fall short in meeting climate commitments could face funding cuts, as part of the Climate Action (Amendment) Bill. The new plans, which will primarily affect the transport, agriculture, housing and energy sectors, will put more...

UK lawmakers will begin the final phase of signing off Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal on Tuesday (7 January), as they returned to Westminster. The bill will be analysed in detail over the next three days before moving to the Lords....

Tehran should avoid “further violence and provocations”, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned Monday (6 January) evening following an extraordinary meeting between Alliance members, as tensions mount in the Middle East after US forces killed Iran’s top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani....

France has again called on the US  to “come to its senses” and not sanction French products in response to the French digital tax. “This trade war is in no one’s interest and I call on our American friends to...

Caretaker Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will have a very tight vote in parliament on his investiture as head of the executive. He needs to win a simple majority but currently has a mere two vote advantage. Opposition parties are...

The cyberattack was launched on Saturday and has still not been repelled, even though countermeasures were applied almost immediately. The foreign ministry suspects that state actors conducted the attack “because of its gravity and nature”. The idea that Russia could...

After a year of moderate to disappointing electoral results, the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) held their yearly ‘Three Kings Meeting’ yesterday in Stuttgart to chart out their course for 2020. The party leadership has its sights set on a...

The debate over whether Sweden should keep the Kroner or join the Eurozone seems to be gathering some momentum again. The most recent one sticking his spoon into the porridge is Björn Olsson, an economist of the Swedish Bankers’ Association....

Production of biogas, biomethane and “green” hydrogen will have to skyrocket by at least 1,000% over the next three decades in order to reach the EU’s climate neutrality objective for 2050, an EU official has said.

Biodiversity is under threat, elephants and wildlife in general are declining rapidly. IFAW has been working for 50 years on the ground and with decision-makers. The EU and Member States must take their responsibilities now before it’s too late.

Britain is to unveil its first post-Brexit budget on March 11, the government said on Tuesday (7 January), promising increased public service spending and an end to a decade of austerity.

Spanish lawmakers are expected to vote by the narrowest of margins on Tuesday (7 January) to confirm Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez as head of a left-wing coalition government.

Iran's supreme leader wept in grief with hundreds of thousands of mourners thronging Tehran's streets on Monday (6 January) for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by a US drone on the orders of US President Donald Trump.

EU foreign ministers will hold emergency talks on the Iran crisis later this week on Friday as tensions rise after US forces killed an Iranian general in a drone strike, diplomats said on Monday (6 January).

At the turn of 2020, a big bunch of geopolitical issues are staring Europe right in the face. What will matter in the end is the capacity of the new European Commission, which by the way calls itself geopolitical, to respond to the challenges.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is monitoring the hacking of a government website, which may have been conducted in response to the US drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassim Suleimani at Baghdad airport on Friday (3 January).