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The European Free Alliance (EFA) party, while low on seats and waning in voting intentions, aims to bring the voices of national minorities and stateless nations into the EU debate by fielding two top candidates who will campaign across the...

US President Joe Biden will make a high-stakes visit to Israel on 18 October as the country prepares to escalate an offensive against Hamas that has set off a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and raised fears of a conflict with Iran.

Poland’s exit poll results may have been well received in several European capitals, with many hailing it as a possible end to the tug-of-war with Brussels should the current opposition form a government, but the charm of former European Council...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - An unidentified shooter killed two people near the centre of Brussels on Monday evening (16 October), in what Belgian officials condemned as a 'terrorist attack', prompting the country to raise its terror threat level to 4, the highest since 2016.

The Spanish presidency circulated three discussion papers on Friday (13 October) to gather EU countries' feedback on key aspects of the AI law ahead of an upcoming negotiation session: fundamental rights, sustainability obligations and workplace decision-making.

Georgia's constitutional court on Monday (16 October) ruled that pro-Western President Salome Zurabishvili had breached the constitution by making unauthorised foreign trips, paving the way for her removal.

The European Commission's use of microtargeting techniques to promote its controversial law to prevent the dissemination of child sexual abuse material is under investigation over concerns it might have violated the EU data protection and privacy rules.

‘Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła’, translated as ‘Poland Is Not Yet Lost’, is the first verse of Poland’s national anthem, written by Polish nobleman Józef Wybicki in 1797. It's an unusual text for an anthem. But the dramatism of these words is not accidental.

TIRANA, ALBANIA - Leaders of the European Commission and Council as well as key EU member states are adamant that dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade must continue, despite uncertainty over the recent attack on 24 September in north Kosovo, just one of many divergences on display at the Berlin Process Summit in Tirana on Monday (16 October).

The French government convened trade unions and business organisation leaders for a high-level ‘social conference’ that focuses on wage increases on Monday (16 October), months after a much-decried pension reform brought government-union dialogue to a standstill.

The most senior EU leader expected to attend the third Belt and Road (BRI) Summit on 17-18 October is Hungary's populist Viktor Orbán, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday (15 October) and will join guests including Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Nobel Peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari, who served as Finland's 10th president between 1994 and 2000, died on Monday (16 October) at the age of 86, the Finnish president's office said in a statement.

As the shift towards electric vehicles majorly changes the employment structure of the automotive industry, car regions should be supported with EU money, the economy minister of Germany’s state of Saxony-Anhalt, Sven Schulze, told Euractiv in an interview.

It is difficult to see how real progress can be made at this year’s COP28 UN climate summit in Dubai. Without thorough reform of the system, reaching agreement on climate action and enacting outcomes will remain challenging, if not impossible, writes Sandrine Dixson-Declève.

Talks to boost the European Peace Facility (EPF), the EU's funding mechanism to sustain European military deliveries to Ukraine, are unlikely to be finished before EU leaders sit down to review the bloc's entire budget in December.

A leaked version of the European Commission’s work programme for 2024 lists none of the remaining EU sustainable food files, seemingly confirming stakeholders’ worst fears that these proposals will not see the light of day before next June's EU elections. 

Last month’s State of the Union address committed to defending fair trade on the global stage. Now, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, must show that fair trade means fair trade for all and applies to all sectors equally.

EU countries are set to start discussions on the inclusion of the financial sector under the scope of the proposed EU corporate accountability directive, in an effort to find a negotiating mandate and strike a deal with the European Parliament.

French opposition members have hit out at the government's efforts to rein in electricity prices as part of EU talks to reform the bloc's power market, saying the executive will be judged during the 2024 European elections.

As members of the European Parliament prepare to vote on their position on the proposed EU law to ban products made with forced labour from the EU market, they reiterated their call on member states to accelerate their negotiations.