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The deal between the French government and state-owned utility EDF to regulate nuclear power sales prices at an average of €70 per megawatt-hour (MWh) may be subject to EU state aid rules, according to experts, while the European Commission said it was reserving its judgment until further details emerge.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was harshly criticised by the opposition after he downplayed his government's declaration of emergency for the 2023 budget following the constitutional court's ruling - as questions remain over how to fill the €60 billion hole in the climate fund.

Government offices in the EU can ban employees wearing religious symbols such as Islamic headscarves, even when they do not have contact with the public, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled Tuesday (28 November).

The UN ambassadors of the United States and North Korea sparred at the Security Council on Monday (27 November) over Pyongyang's first spy satellite launch and the reasons for growing tensions in a rare, direct, public exchange between the adversaries.

The European Commission unveiled an action plan on Tuesday (28 November) to accelerate the roll-out of electricity grids and remove bottlenecks hampering the deployment of renewable energies at local level.

Belgium's parliament recently approved the health minister's bill for the exclusive provision of MRI and CT scans at official rates. without extra charges, but the Belgian doctors' syndicate

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as well as Ukraine said on Tuesday (28 November) they will boycott an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ministerial meeting in Skopje later this week if Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is allowed to attend.

A market failure is preventing EV owners from using their cars’ batteries to power their homes and back up local grids. Following up on its Grid Action Plan, the Commission needs to propose the necessary regulatory measures to give drivers a right to bidirectional charging, writes William Todts.

The European Commission is scheduled to unveil new passenger mobility legislation on Wednesday (29 November), with the package partly aimed at improving passenger rights for flyers in a post-COVID world.

Spain is ready to sign a deal on the post-Brexit status of Gibraltar as early as Wednesday (29 November), Spanish Foreign Minister José  Manuel Albares said, before setting off to meet newly appointed British Foreign Minister David Cameron in Brussels.

A citizens’ initiative supported by half a million Poles regarding the return of a state-funded in vitro fertilisation (IVF) programme is dividing lawmakers as infertility is increasingly becoming a problem.

Sandwiched between two major conflicts – Russia’s war in Ukraine to its east and the conflict in Gaza to its south – the EU needs much unity at home. Sorting out Schengen, the border-free area, could be a good way...

The EU should put the political above the institutional logic and learn how to be a player, not just a payer. The next Commission should consolidate and simplify Global Gateway, scale up financing, and designate a senior Commissioner tasked with repositioning Europe in the network of global value chains, writes Romana Vlahutin.

With the current proposal for overhauling the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), the EU executive pushes for more concentration on farming by treating agriculture as an industry, the three MEPs leading the file write.

Pharmaceutical companies may be gradually improving at notifying drug shortages to the Swedish Medical Products Agency on time, but delays are still common and the agency is now examining suspected violations, which could result in fines of up to almost €9 million.

US, European and Ukrainian police have arrested a ringleader of a notorious hacker gang operating from Ukraine which used ransomware to fleece hundreds of millions of euros from their victims, Europol said Tuesday (28 November).

Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are organic compounds containing fluorine that do not degrade. Consequently, they are sometimes referred to as ‘forever chemicals’. There are thousands of specific PFAS, with a range of consumer and industrial uses. As part of...

NATO and Ukraine are expected to sign off Kyiv’s reform to-do list for future NATO accession on Wednesday (29 November), despite divisions over the process and reluctance from the US and Germany. “We will agree on recommendations for Ukraine’s priority...

Amid worries over institutional deadlock, the 57-member Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agreed on Monday (27 November) that Malta should take over the organisation’s rotating chairmanship after Russia barred Estonia from the task. The eleventh-hour deal comes...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay his third wartime visit to the Middle East this week, a US official said Monday (27 November), just as mediators announced an extension of a truce in Gaza.