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Georgian non-governmental organisations staged a pro-European Union march in the capital Tbilisi on Saturday (9 December), a week ahead of the bloc's decision on granting the country membership candidacy status.

To reduce household waste, a growing number of local authorities in Europe have started putting microchips on waste bins and charging people for the amount of trash they throw away.

EU legislators on Friday (8 December) struck a political agreement on the final piece of the Union's hydrogen policy, establishing a grid planning body that will gradually become independant from existing gas network operators.

After a 36-hour negotiating marathon, EU policymakers reached a political agreement on what is set to become the global benchmark for regulating Artificial Intelligence.

The United States kept up pressure on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians during a fierce offensive against Hamas militants across Gaza, even as Washington vetoed a UN Security Council demand for an immediate ceasefire.

Petro-state Azerbaijan has cleared a key hurdle to host next year's UN climate summit despite the controversy over COP28 taking place in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.

EU Climate Action Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has refused to disclose who he consulted for when working for management consultancy McKinsey, in a letter to the European Parliament seen by Euractiv.

Germany’s governing SPD party (S&D) has kicked off its party convention with calls for more public investments, including by circumventing and reforming the country’s ‘debt brake’.

Slovakia's president said on Friday (8 December) she would likely veto the government's planned fast-track changes to criminal law that include scrapping a special prosecutor's office that has focused on corruption, saying the plan needed proper debate.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) invited interested third parties to comment on Microsoft’s ongoing partnership with OpenAI on Friday (8 December).

French prosecutors on Friday (8 December) ordered far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen to stand trial over claims she used EU funds to finance party activities in France.

A newly-adopted compromise on the EU’s new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is already being met with some scepticism from German lawmakers, who fear that the law will interfere with domestic rules.

Institutional reforms, competitiveness, and protection of the European way of life are at the heart of Belgium’s EU Council presidency programme in the first half of 2024, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib unveiled at an...

The EU should re-write its rules on aid that currently prevent it from providing funds to organisations that are not based in the EU, leading aid charity Caritas has urged. 

Few policy topics are as charged and important to politicians and public opinion as migration.

In much of Aragon in the northeast of Spain, agriculture is kept alive by large-scale irrigation systems. What some see as the key to ensuring a viable future for the next generation in the region is at the heart of...

Rockets were fired at the US embassy in Baghdad on 8 December in an attack believed to have been carried out by Iran-aligned militias which have targeted US interests in Syria and Iraq over Washington's backing for Israel in its Gaza war.

Vladimir Putin on 8 December told soldiers who had fought in Ukraine that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the former KGB spy to stay in power until at least 2030.

While Europe has neither the cash bazooka of the United States Inflation Reduction Act, nor the state capitalism of China, the automotive industry can be the lead market to boost Europe’s green steel plans, writes Julia Poliscanova of Transport & Environment.

EU finance ministers on Friday (8 December) picked Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Nadia Calviño to become the next head of the European Investment Bank in a boost for Spain's clout within the bloc.