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The former Head of Serbia’s Security and Information Agency (BIA), Aleksandar Vulin, was not a Russian agent and has always worked for Serbia, President Aleksandar Vučić said following Vulin’s resignation on Friday. Vulin has long been accused of having close...

EU member state funds spent on bird conservation are being wasted due to the ongoing practice of hunting in Malta, while the changing of laws to appease the hunting lobby to keep their votes, and the slow progress of EU...

Instead of attacking and seeking to halt carbon capture and storage, journalists and environmental campaigners should be holding oil companies and countries to account, demanding that they deliver on their CCS commitments, writes Robin Mills.

Five years after the party of French President Emmanuel Macron took the leadership of the liberals in the EU Parliament, rebranding them as Renew Europe, the group remains far from being a cohesive political platform with divides on key issues threatening the group's influence.

From de-commissioned wind blades to end-of-life tyres and agricultural waste, co-processing offers a circular solution to Europe’s waste problem – whilst reducing the cement sector’s CO2 emissions. Its potential should be fully recognised by policymakers, argues Koen Coppenholle, CEO of CEMBUREAU.

Backers of Moldovan President Maia Sandu's drive to join the European mainstream expressed confidence as counting was underway in local elections on Sunday (5 November) after a campaign in which she accused Moscow of meddling in the poll.

Europe is aware that it has underestimated cooperation with Africa, which is a situation they are working on changing, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said before his trip to the continent on Friday, where he plans to focus on economic...

The Swedish government says it will move quickly to make naloxone, a spray that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, widely available outside the healthcare system in order to save more lives.

The constitutional reform proposed last Friday by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government, which includes the direct election of the prime minister, has come under heavy criticism, with some calling it sloppy and others saying it falls far short of...

The Military Police are investigating the shooting of an irregular migrant at the Belarusian border, which was first reported on social media by human rights groups before being confirmed by the local prosecutor’s office. “According to the information provided to...

Liberal MP Jan Paternotte (D66/Renew) took aim at former EU climate chief and Dutch prime ministerial candidate Frans Timmermans in an election debate on Sunday, criticising him for his role in the EU-Tunisia migrant deal. The election debate, organised by...

France’s conservatives and the far right are fiercely opposed to the government’s immigration bill, which proposes to create an automatic work permit for irregular migrants working in labour-scarce sectors and is due to be debated in the Senate from Monday....

Austria’s centre-right ÖVP party wants to topple the Social Democratic SPÖ, with a letter released by the conservative party’s secretary general highlighting some of the Social Democrats’ recent scandals ahead of next year’s election, in which the two traditionally strong...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) signalled their willingness on Sunday to outsource asylum applications to Africa, as proposed by their liberal coalition partner, the FDP, ahead of Monday’s key meeting where they will be pressed to adopt...

The Sofia mayoral election – meant to be the key to the stability of the pro-EU government in Bulgaria – turned into a tense clash between pro-EU candidate Vasil Terziev and pro-Russian candidate Vanya Grigorova on Sunday. With 90% of...

Slovakia’s support of the European Council conclusions, which included military aid for Ukraine, was met with disapproval from Slovak National Party leader Andrej Danko, who called out Prime Minister Robert Fico for his earlier comments about rejecting military aid. Fico...

The future Spanish coalition government of the Socialist Party (PSOE/S&D) and the left-wing platform Sumar will have to resolve a severe internal dispute after Unidas Podemos leader Ione Belarra, criticised the head of the progressive group and acting Labour Minister,...

Italy will ban synthetic food, Italian Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida told an event organised by the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and attended by EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski over the weekend, making it the first country in the world...

When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stepped out on the train platform at Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi on Saturday (4 November), day 619 of Russia's war on Ukraine, the timing of her sixth visit to the war-torn country was itself the message.

US and European officials have spoken to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, NBC quoted an unidentified senior US official and one former US official as saying.