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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez discussed several issues on the political agenda ahead of next week’s European Council in Brussels with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, including Kyiv’s possible accession, which Orban opposes as ‘premature’. The future enlargement of the...

The ruling majority in the Bulgarian parliament has agreed to provide Ukraine with Bulgarian airspace for F-16 aircraft training, according to a draft decision proposed by the leaders of the three formations supporting the government. One of the eight points...

The Danish governing parties – the Social Democrats (S&D), the Liberals (Renew Europe), and the Moderates (Renew Europe) – voted in favour of a controversial bill making it a criminal offence to mistreat important religious texts such as the Koran...

An increasing number of EU member states are adopting non-price criteria in their offshore wind auction designs, write Vasilios Anatolitis, Julia Panny, Malte Gephart, and Pia Weckenbrock. But while non-price criteria can support a wide range of policy objectives, their design and implementation come with challenges, they caution.

French President Emmanuel Macron brought together dozens of researchers and start-up bosses at the Élysée Palace on Thursday to call for a revival of French research and to announce the creation of a Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and...

The Czech Republic, currently not represented at the top diplomatic level in Moscow, will send an ambassador to Russia at some point in the future, President Petr Pavel told reporters after Thursday’s meeting of top constitutional officials on foreign policy...

Germany’s Foreign Ministry has been heavily criticised by the Federal Court of Auditors for wasting taxpayer money by acquiring lavish properties for its diplomatic representation in Brussels, according to a report published on Thursday. In 2021, the Foreign Ministry bought...

Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany and Yolanda Díaz in Spain have all but annihilated their country’s established left-wing parties, taking over their political space with brand new alliances – but how did they get there?

With countries and companies lamenting ongoing skills and labour shortages, experts argue that part of the problem is not a lack of workers - but an unwillingness on the part of employers to provide better working conditions.

The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled on Thursday (7 December) that decision-making by scoring systems that use personal data is unlawful, a judgement that could have significant spillover effects for social security and credit agencies.

Two years after Germany’s first left-leaning coalition in 16 years took office, many of its ambitious reforms are overshadowed by inner contradictions and constant crisis mode.

To ensure the EU’s leading role in quantum technologies, the Spanish Presidency coordinated a joint declaration on quantum technology on Wednesday (6 December).  Spain presented the Quantum Pact during the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (TTE) Council in a last-minute...

Concerned that excluding Chinese manufacturers of solar panels and other green technologies could slow down the energy transition and raise costs, EU countries on Thursday (7 December) agreed to continue allowing Chinese products for most subsidy programmes for renewable energy.

The Commission’s strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture – which will officially be launched in January – will help set the course of discussions on the future shape of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), according to Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski. 

The EU’s new carbon imports levy could cost African states up to $25 billion per year, the President of the African Development Bank has warned, in a new critique of the new tax. 

While EU and Chinese leaders on Thursday (7 December) managed to agree on the need for a more 'balanced' trade relationship, they gave little indication of being able to resolve deep-running differences over most issues.

By a single vote, the European Parliament’s transport committee agreed its position on the EU driving licence directive update on Thursday (7 December), supporting controversial provisions that would make medical checks obligatory to obtain a new licence.

The European Parliament adopted a wide package of reforms of its internal rules covering the legislative process, scrutiny activities and budgetary functions a senior official from the European Parliament confirmed to Euractiv on Thursday (7 December).

After 22 hours of intense negotiations, EU policymakers found a provisional agreement regulating the most powerful AI models but strong disagreement in the law enforcement chapter forced the exhausted officials to call for a recess.

While negotiations for the EU-Mercosur agreement are currently taking place on a daily basis to speed up the conclusion of the additional protocol, more work needs to be done to match our commitments, writes a group of EU lawmakers.