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A messy dispute broke out on Wednesday (22 November) over whether Pope Francis used the word "genocide" to describe events in Gaza, with Palestinians who met with him insisting that he did and the Vatican saying he did not.

The Foreign Investors Council (FIC) has provided this year’s assessment of the business and investment climate in Serbia, along with recommendations for its improvement, noting that progress has been made in just 28% of last year’s 383 recommendations. The Council...

Four Eurofighter jets from the German Air Force arrived in Romania on Wednesday to provide airspace surveillance support for the NATO Air Policing South mission. Starting Monday, the planes will be operational and will strengthen air defence on NATO’s southeastern...

Primary food processing industries contribute to the EU’s food security and sovereignty. Our sectors play an important role in Europe’s agri-food ecosystem and supply food products and ingredients consumed by millions of EU citizens every day. But we are also facing numerous challenges.

Finland will close all but the northernmost crossing point on its border with Russia from midnight on Friday (24 November) in a bid to halt a flow of asylum seekers to the Nordic nation, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said.

The Bulgarian government survived a second no-confidence vote on Wednesday – which had been filed based on allegations that the cabinet had failed in the field of defence and national security. The no-confidence vote was filed by the pro-Russian Bulgarian...

Ministry workers are leaving their posts after the Smer-SD party took power, citing interference and incompatibility, as government members spread hoaxes and pro-Russian narratives in a team that is losing disinformation experts. Interventions in the fight against disinformation are a...

Czechia wants to devote a larger part of the EU’s Just Transition Fund to large-scale strategic projects that have long faced criticism and are connected with significant risks, said Czech Deputy Environment Minister Jan Kříž, adding that projects must undergo a robust approval process to receive the funding.

The release of hostages under a temporary truce between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants will not happen before Friday (24 November), Israel's national security adviser said, thwarting hopes of relatives that some would be freed on Thursday.

Moving towards full employment, strengthening the welfare state, and improving gender equality are some of the objectives within Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s new government’s new budget plan, Education Minister and progressive coalition government spokesperson Pilar Alegría said on Wednesday. The...

The document that sets out France’s 2030 energy targets and was submitted for public consultation that the Energy Ministry unveiled on Wednesday has insufficient data to judge the actions taken by the public authorities, the Climate Action Network France said on Wednesday.

The centre-right and conservative groups in the EU House have accused the Greens, Socialists and the Left groups of double standards – comparing Spain to Hungary and Poland – for not condemning Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s controversial deals with separatist...

Most Poles do not believe that the ruling PiS’ party will succeed in forming a new government despite winning the elections and the president’s nomination, according to a poll published by Wirtualna Polska on Wednesday. While most PiS politicians, even...

EU countries are close to a reform agreeing on the bloc’s controversial debt rules, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said after meeting Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, who remained more guarded about the prospect of a deal, on Wednesday. EU members are...

The Portuguese government wants to evacuate another ten to twelve Palestinians who have relations with the country from Gaza, Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho told the press in Madrid on Wednesday. According to Cravinho, the government had a...

With a slight majority, the EU Parliament approved its proposal for EU treaty reform on Wednesday (22 November), triggering the formal request to the heads of state to vote on whether to open the EU reform convention. 

The international community will move forward with plans to establish a UN convention to set global rules on tax and illicit financial flows after a campaign led by the EU, United States and UK failed to kill off the plan. 

Increasing ammunition production in Europe is in the hands of national governments, who can re-prioritise orders, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Tuesday (21 November), amid concerns that the EU may fail to send the planned one million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by March.

As Europe’s social democrat parties prepare their policy platforms ahead of next June’s European elections, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has unveiled a series of new policy ‘missions’ designed to feed into the process. This event report looks at the policy...

Any journalist working in and around the EU knows that receiving jargon-riddled press releases is a frustrating but inevitable hazard of the job.