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Serbia had the chance to sign the EU-facilitated basic agreement and Ohrid agreement at the Tirana-hosted Berlin Process summit, but they refused, according to Kosovo‘s Prime Minister Albin Kurti. The agreement and its annexes were verbally agreed on during an...

Germany does not support the idea of a regional conference or a new approach to Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, according to Manuel Sarrazin, special representative for the countries of the Western Balkans to the German government, who spoke to Euractiv on the...

Romania’s Chamber of Deputies quickly passed the law on special pensions in line with the EU Commission’s request to unblock a third recovery fund instalment on Monday after the Constitutional Court ruled the previous proposal unconstitutional in August. This legislation...

Building agrophotovoltaics on arable land – which is when the same area of land is used to obtain both solar energy and agricultural products – could lead to the transformation of agricultural areas into energy production plants, President Rumen Radev said before the Constitutional Court on Monday.

The environmental crisis has reached a critical level. We are faced with three different yet intertwined challenges: accelerated resources depletion, an alarming level of pollution, with a high concern on plastic but not limited to, and ultimately, climate change. Packaging,...

Slovakia’s new government wants to crack down on foreign-funded NGOs in a move reminiscent of laws labelling NGOs as foreign agents introduced in Russia and Hungary, with the latter seeing its laws struck down by the EU Court of Justice....

Israel has the right to defend itself by acting militarily while respecting the civilian populations of Gaza, Prime Minister António Costa said In Alvor, Portimão on Sunday. “Israel has every right to defend itself by acting militarily against Hamas, but...

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has dismissed Anniken Huitfeldt as foreign minister amid stock market scandals, saying it was necessary to restore confidence and calm controversy over her husband’s transactions and resulting potential conflicts of interest. A month after the...

Denmark’s Immigration and Integration Ministry unveiled a stricter regime for monitoring illegal work by people not legally resident in Denmark but not subject to deportation on Monday. In an official statement, the ministry revealed its efforts to combat illegal employment...

Italy's government said on Monday (16 October) it would set aside 12 billion euros to build a giant bridge to connect Sicily to the mainland, as it revives a project that appeared to have been killed off ten years ago.

“Winter season 2022-2023 saw significant medicine shortages, and it is not possible to predict what shortages may occur through winter 2023-2024,” a spokesperson for the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) told Euractiv.

Denmark and the Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday on the sidelines of the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg, pledging to cooperate on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and CO2 transport.

Austria has hit out at the latest compromise proposal to reform the EU’s fiscal rules, with Finance Minister Magnus Brunner arguing that it lacks ambition. At the start of October, EU presidency holder Spain presented a compromise on reforming the...

Major stakeholders in Sweden welcome the new and modernised European pharmaceutical legislation. However, both the public and private sectors see a great need for improvements and revisions.

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton is taking an aggressive public approach to social media platforms’ failure to tackle disinformation about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Breton’s approach may help boost his public profile – but it risks undermining more useful steps in the fight against disinformation, writes Zach Meyers.

Serbia will sign a free trade agreement with China on Tuesday – covering 10,412 Serbian tariff lines or products and 8,930 on the Chinese side, as President Aleksander Vučić snubbed the Berlin Process Summit meeting in Tirana to head east....

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) could soon be expanded to include a new member state, Sweden, the Czech deputy head of the body, Petr Klement, told Euractiv.cz in an interview. The EPPO, which began work in June 2021, is...

Germany will introduce controls at its border with Switzerland following pressure to reduce irregular migration flows. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD/S&D) also promised to introduce stationary border controls at the border with Poland and the Czech Republic on Monday. In...

Energy sharing under the EU’s proposed electricity market design reform is under threat from opposition in the European Parliament, which could allow EU countries to limit it to neighbourhood-level only. This cannot be allowed to happen, writes Monique Goyens.

Recognition of the Palestinian state is one of the conditions for the left-wing Sumar platform to sign a coalition agreement with acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the group’s spokesman Ernest Urtasun said on Monday, noting that there should be no...