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Street battles raged in Gaza City on Wednesday (8 November) with Hamas fighters using tunnels to ambush Israeli forces, as the United States said Palestinians must govern Gaza post-war, countering Israeli comments that it would control security indefinitely.

All political forces in Portugal asked President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Wednesday to call early elections ‘in two months’, following Prime Minister António Costa’s resignation. Prime Minister António Costa resigned on Tuesday after it was confirmed he is being...

There was a nearly €8,000 difference between the average wages of men and women in 2022 in comparison to 2021, when it was around €6,700, the Observatory on Private Sector Employees of the National Social Security Institute (INPS) wrote in...

The Swedish Left Party filed a complaint against Foreign Minister Tobias Billström with the parliamentary constitutional committee following his statement calling Israel’s response to the Hamas strike proportionate. Asked whether the Israeli attack on 31 October that hit the Jabalia...

Several left and centre-left parties have called on the caretaker cabinet to immediately halt all deliveries of spare parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel, reacting to revelations earlier this week that the country’s government had continued to do so...

Five industrial and research actors from Belgium, Romania, Italy and the US want to speed up the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), a memorandum of understanding between the five signed on Wednesday reads.

Thirteen EU member states have not adopted national plans to combat anti-Semitism, French EU Minister Laurence Boone told a Senate hearing on Wednesday, referring to one of the recommendations in the EU strategy on the matter, which states pledged to...

Currently polling at 9%, Austria’s Greens may not reach their 2019 EU election record of 14% this time around, as rumours about the party’s favoured candidate, Energy Minister Leonore Gewessler, pulling out of the race may have been the reason for the party cancelling its EU election kick-off congress.

A letter from the EU Commission expressing concerns about Spain’s rule of law developments and requesting information on the controversial Catalan amnesty law sparked a tense response from the Spanish government on Thursday. Meanwhile, tensions in Spain escalated as some...

President of Hungary Katalin Novák called on Swedish officials to prove they deserve accession to NATO, as she urged national parliamentarians to sign off the country's bid,  on Wednesday (8 November).

Several thousand Georgians rallied Wednesday (8 November) in Tbilisi to voice support for their country's path to EU membership, after Brussels moved to grant the Caucasus country candidate status.

Bulgaria’s We Continue the Change party was listed as a member of Renew alongside the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), which aroused many questions in Bulgaria because there was no official announcement about the membership.

If PiS fails to obtain a vote of confidence and Donald Tusk returns to power as prime minister, he will have to work alongside PiS President Andrzej Duda, which may leave him with déjà vu as he worked alongside previous PiS President Lech Kaczyński during his first term as prime minister in 2007.

Germany’s ageing population and rapidly outdating economic structures are putting its future growth at risk, the country’s top economic advisors warned on Wednesday, stressing that it must also draw in more private capital from other European countries. Plagued by soaring...

As EU finance ministers prepare to discuss once again the reform of the EU’s rules for national debts and deficits, the positions of hawkish countries and those calling for more flexibility remain wide apart, with little sign that a compromise is within reach.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Kazakhstan on Thursday (9 November), while Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi are expected in Uzbekistan, amid renewed diplomatic interest in the region.

Left-wing parties in the European Parliament have criticised a proposal by centre-right European People's Party (EPP) lawmaker Jessica Polfjärd to loosen rules on new genomic techniques (NGTs) even more than the Commission originally aimed for.

The European Commission urged both Belgrade and Pristina on Wednesday (8 November) to begin implementing their obligations under past agreements, including a revival of their stalled normalisation talks, stressing this was vital for their future EU path.

Holding the EU Council presidency has given Spain the perfect opportunity to shine and demonstrate its leadership - at least, that’s what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said. But today, that ambition looks grim.

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