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The Netherlands will donate DNA test kits to Ukraine in order to aid the country in identifying children kidnapped by Russia, outgoing Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot (CDA/EPP) announced on Thursday. Bruins Slot met up with Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman...

Belgium should use its upcoming Council Presidency to focus on policy coherence for key areas such as development, trade, and migration, according to the 2023 Belgian development cooperation report published by CNCD-11.11.11 – an NGO – which was presented to...

The financial system must be regulated on terms set by citizens, not the financial lobby, argues Benoît Lallemand.

Now is the time to be realistic and set an achievable F-gas regulation that will help homeowners and businesses embrace a green future.

The expansion of Russian oil and gas, especially in Asian markets, has helped Russia keep its political standing on the global stage - but G20 countries have the antidote by centring on energy efficiency, writes Oleksandr Butenko.

An Austrian ban on lorries from Italy has sparked outrage in Rome, prompting threats that the Italian government will go to Luxembourg to sue the Austrian government at the EU top court. The Austria-Italy transit lane at the Brenner pass...

France’s five-year plan for wolves from 2024, due to be formally presented by the government next week and seen by Euractiv on Thursday, sides with the European Commission in calling for a review of the animal’s protection status and seeks...

Portugal’s government took a positive view on Thursday of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) outlook for inflation to be close to 3% by 2024 and maintained its critical stance on successive interest rate hikes. At a press conference at the...

Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected appeals filed by the far-right VOX party and centre-liberal Ciudadanos (Citizens) against the pardons granted by the government to two prominent Catalan separatists directly involved in the October 2017 secessionist attempt in Catalonia. The...

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Thursday (14 September) his country rejects the participation of its citizens as mercenaries in war, contradicting a statement by Cuba's ambassador in Moscow hours earlier

E-fuels must be climate-neutral for new vehicles with combustion engines to be sold after 2035, according to a new draft regulation – which resolves an internal dispute within the EU Commission – seen by Euractiv. In March 2023, EU countries...

Almost all political parties that have a chance at being in Slovakia’s government after the snap election on 30 September wish to build a new nuclear power reactor, a new analysis reads. As Slovakia’s election approaches, a new poll has...

The West must prepare for a lengthy war in Ukraine and deal with an increasingly hostile Russia even after it is over, Czechia’s Chief of General Staff Karel Řehka said. In an interview for Reuters, Řehka said he was not...

Romanian Social Democratic MEP Victor Negrescu proposes setting up an EU transit mechanism for Ukrainian grain imports, while Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has asked his agriculture minister, Florin Barbu, to prepare for the European Commission’s forthcoming decision on grain from...

Polish election campaigns are fraught with resentment, but hopefully, the anti-German rhetoric will not affect Polish society, German SPD MP Sebastian Hartmann said about the campaign led by Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Hartmann referred to PiS’s new...

Italy will look to Hungary – a ‘perfect example’ of how to use investment to solve the birth rate problem – to raise its currently low birth rate, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said at the Budapest Democratic Summit on...

In a major shift in tone, the German Greens will focus their campaign on themes such as security and boosting business alongside classic green topics, as they seek to portray themselves as the pragmatic party of government and win back...

European Union member states seek to study the financial and legal consequences of making Catalan, Basque, and Galician official EU languages, making it unlikely for the bloc to speedily reach a decision, as initially hoped for by Spain. Spanish Foreign...

Ukraine said on Thursday (14 September) it attacked two Russian patrol ships and destroyed a sophisticated air defence system in the west of occupied Crimea, ramping up its strikes to challenge Moscow's dominance in the Black Sea region.

To call a spade a spade, the ongoing exclusion of Bulgaria and Romania from the Schengen passport-free area only helps to feed anti-EU propaganda and undermines the EU's influence and values abroad, writes Ilhan Kyuchyuk.