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Three commercial vessels came under attack in international waters in the southern Red Sea, the US military said Sunday (3 December), as Yemen's Houthi group claimed drone and missile attacks on two Israeli vessels in the area.

People with disabilities in Serbia face systemic discrimination and live on the edge of poverty, Branko Jokić, president of the Association of People with Disabilities Phoenix told Euractiv Serbia. Although there is no single database on the number of people...

Romania aims to have over eight gigawatts (GW) in photovoltaic renewable energy production units installed by 2030, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai over the weekend following his country’s accession to the International Solar Alliance.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez should shed light on the “humiliating” meeting held between his party colleagues and the Catalan separatist formation JxCat in the presence of a controversial mediator from El Salvador, the centre-right People’s Party said on Sunday. Spanish...

Next week's EU-China Summit will not lead to grand changes in both superpowers' fraught relationship, and it is high time the EU starts thinking collectively on pushing back against China's bullying ways, Institut Montaigne's François Godement writes.

Populist formation There Is Such a People (ITN), established just two years ago, has announced its intention to join the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). With the upcoming EU elections set to be held in June next year, ITN has...

With the German government scrambling to fill the budget gap left by a recent top court ruling, proposed solutions have diverged the three-party coalition, exposing old budgetary ideologies.

President Andrzej Duda will nominate Donald Tusk as Poland’s new prime minister should he win the parliament’s bid, despite advice he should not, the president’s aide, Łukasz Rzepecki, confirmed to Radio ZET. When asked if Duda would agree to nominate...

France and around twenty other countries signed a pledge to ‘triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 by 2050’ at Dubai’s COP28 international gathering on Saturday.

In this week’s edition: EU-China summit preview, Hungary doubling down on Ukraine and a leak on the EU executive's defence industry inquiry.

Methane emissions from the energy sector are among the actions developed by the two-week global climate conference in Dubai, keeping in check the hopes of avoiding a rapidly worsening climate.

The head of the European Parliament's delegation at the COP28 climate summit took aim at China ahead of his trip to Dubai, saying Beijing must stop portraying itself as a developing country and contribute to climate finance like “a superpower” or else assume responsibility for the talks’ failure.

Israel faced growing US calls to avoid further harm to Palestinian civilians in its fight against Hamas militants in Gaza, as the warring sides on Sunday (3 December) showed no sign of moving toward reviving their collapsed truce.

One person died and two others were injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Saturday (2 December).

A coalition of 118 countries, excluding China, has signed up to a pledge that aims to create a binding commitment for the world to triple its current renewable energy capacity and double the rate of energy efficiency improvements until 2030....

Skills shortages across the EU can be explained by technological changes so rapid that workers and companies alike are struggling to keep up, labour economics scholar and Nobel prize winner Christopher Pissarides told Euractiv in an interview on Friday (1 December).

Ukraine's domestic spy agency has detonated explosives on a Russian railway line deep in Siberia, the second attack this week on military supply routes in the area, a Ukrainian source told Reuters on Friday (1 December).

The world's largest regional security organisation concluded its annual summit on Friday (1 December) with Russia expressing indifference over the body's future.

The spread of fake news and disinformation has steadily risen in past years, with audiences increasingly getting their news online, where false information - sometimes generated by AI - spreads faster, threatening audiences' trust in media.

Whole grains must be integrated into diets early in life to create healthy habits and curb life-threatening diseases, say experts, who call for the inclusion of grains into the EU School Scheme and public procurement of food. While sugar and...