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By praising Matteo Salvini’s efforts to fight immigration when he was Italy’s interior minister, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is once again targeting the head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, whose country has been facing a large influx...

The EU centre-right top leaders last week put an end to “dangerous” accusations suggesting that the European People’s Party (EPP) is a “climate-denier” or eyes a post-election coalition with the far right, the party’s Secretary-General Thanasis Bakolas told Euractiv in...

In this week’s edition: UNGA preview, SOTEU aftermath and defence budget push.

Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, the European Parliament has backed the Commission's proposal to spend more money on defence in next year's EU budget even though financial resources are scarce.

Germany will not be able to meet all of its hydrogen demand from piped gas, the cheapest way of transporting hydrogen, forcing the country to rely on costlier shipping options instead, according to a new study by influential think-tank Agora Energiewende.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Lampedusa on Sunday (17 September), an official said, as dozens of the Italian island's citizens protested over a recent surge in migrant arrivals.

Ukraine will be able to conduct more drone attacks on Russian warships, a Ukrainian minister who has played a key role in building the country's drone industry said in an interview after a recent series of sea raids.

Thousands of supporters of a pro-Russian Czech opposition party gathered in Prague on Saturday (16 September) to protest against the country's centre-right government, criticising its economic management and military support for Ukraine.

Latvia's parliament voted on Friday (15 September) to confirm Evika Silina of the centre-right New Unity party as the next prime minister, leading a broad coalition, following the resignation last month of Krišjānis Kariņš.

Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea.

Poland, Slovakia and Hungary announced their own restrictions on Ukrainian grain imports on Friday (15 September) after the European Commission decided not to extend its ban on imports into Ukraine's five EU neighbours.

German transport minister Volker Wissing announced an additional sum of €40 billion for its railway network - in part by topping up the state-owned company’s equity, pending approval by the European Commission.

It is high time Spain imposed itself as a leading EU country instead of staying “at the periphery,” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told the national employers association on Friday (15 September), as the Spanish EU Council presidency published a paper...

Brexit is back - or at least debates about relations between London and Brussels are. 

A little more conversation, a little less action please – no, that doesn't come from a bad Elvis impersonator, but from Ursula von der Leyen and describes her new ‘softly, softly’ approach to food system transformation intended to replace the hard-hitting Farm to Fork strategy.

From 20-22 September, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament will hold the 2023 ECR Group Youth Summit in Brussels, bringing together over 100 young people from 12 EU Member States.

Poland's foreign ministry said on Friday (15 September) it had fired the head of its legal service and cancelled all its contracts for outsourcing visa applications amid a growing scandal over migration a month ahead of elections.

Iran has not detailed any conditions under which it would release a Swedish EU diplomat held captive for over 500 days, a senior official said Friday (15 September).

The Human Brain Project (HBP), one of the largest ever EU-supported research initiatives, has taken significant steps in neuroscience by creating an atlas of the human brain - hailed by researchers as an invaluable resource for both medicine and technology.

Increasingly frequent heat waves due to climate change, and rising pollen amounts in the air are impacting the quality of life of respiratory patients, a report has found.