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Germany’s residential grid operators will be empowered to restrict the flow of power to heat pumps and electric vehicle (EV) chargers from 2024 in order to preserve the stability of the grid, which is suffering from chronic underinvestment.

Hamas and Israel were expected to release more hostages and prisoners on Wednesday (29 November), the last day of a prolonged six-day truce in the Gaza Strip conflict, as attention focused on whether mediator Qatar could negotiate another extension.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to cancel a last-minute meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the latter’s comments on Parthenon marbles currently in the British Museum has hurt his public image, according to a survey released on...

France will ban the selling of single-use e-cigarettes by 2025, French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau announced on Tuesday during a National Tobacco Control Program (PNLT) presentation, while increasing tobacco taxation. Teenage use of electronic cigarettes, including puffs (those colourful single-use...

Romania’s Schengen accession will not be subject to a vote during the Justice and Home Affairs Council’s (JHA) meeting on 5 December, according to political sources cited by News.ro. During the upcoming JHA Council next week, the discussion on Romania...

Slovakia must pay €3,000 to a girl who could not participate in distance learning due to insufficient access to the internet, according to a court ruling in Prešov on Tuesday in what the pupil’s lawyers claim is Europe’s first digital...

Interior ministers from Germany, Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary have agreed to create a joint working group to tackle illegal immigration to the region during a meeting in Hungary on Monday. The joint working group will consist of officers...

Portugal’s hydrogen project in Sines was selected as one of the cross-border energy initiatives eligible to apply for EU financial support because they are in line with the Green Deal, according to a list published by the EU Commission on Tuesday.

The EU said Tuesday (28 November) that a team of election observers sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of 20 December polls cannot spread out around the country because of "security reasons".

Urgent action to address the country’s childcare ‘emergency’ is being called for as Germany is more than 400,000 nursery spots short of meeting demand, according to a new study published on Tuesday. The study, published by the Bertelsmann Foundation, found...

In an effort to increase its political influence in the EU’s poorest country, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), which is part of the EU Socialists (PES), announced this week an official move to form a broad coalition with pro-Russian and...

Polish truckers protesting at the Ukrainian border are not blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid, according to the national tax authority, which dispelled the accusations from leading Ukrainian politicians. Polish truck drivers have been protesting at the Ukrainian border against...

The idea that the Partido Popular (PP) and its EU family party (European People’s Party – EPP) have floated on Monday about the alleged danger that the Next Generation funds could face if the planned amnesty law finally goes ahead...

Spain’s re-appointed minister for agriculture, Luis Planas, has promised to continue to prioritise the triangle of "youth and women, water and digitalisation”, signalling that, in his third term in office, he will stick to his established course.

The EU co-legislators are set to reach a political agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act, with the main major hurdle left to solve around the power of national authorities to restrict access to reported vulnerabilities.

As the EU is struggling to balance its economic and security interests amid US-China tensions, South Korea faces similar challenges in a much more accentuated way, requiring the country to take extraordinary care in devising its economic security strategy.

Civil society groups have underlined their concerns about a European Commission draft directive on foreign agents expected to be published in the coming days, warning that it could break the bloc’s own laws. 

An increasing number of European diplomats - not only those from the hawkish east - is growing increasingly uneasy about 'normalising' dialogue with the Russians in international forums.

As part of its PSD2 review, the EU is updating its payments legislation to better promote competition and innovation. However concerns remain about discriminatory practices when it comes to access to payment systems for services such as direct currency conversion.

Finland will close its entire border with Russia to travellers for the next two weeks in a bid to halt the unusual flow of asylum seekers to the Nordic nation, which the government says is orchestrated by Moscow.