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France will introduce a rail pass similar to the one recently introduced in neighbouring Germany, French Transport Minister Clément Beaune announced on Thursday, in a bid to encourage the French to use trains, which are often bemoaned as an expensive way to travel.

The United States and the European Union on Thursday (7 September) criticised remarks about the World War Two persecution of Jews and antisemitism by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) needs to increase at least 100-fold by 2050 for the world to meet its net-zero emissions goals. The US and Norway illustrate how effective government policy can help achieve this, write Jarad Daniels and Nils Rokke. 

Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday (7 September) that police in Bosnia's Serb-dominated region have been instructed to arrest and deport an international peace envoy if he enters the Serb Republic.

Austria’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the head of the EU Commission’s representation in Austria, Martin Selmayr, over his comments highlighting the country’s continued dependence on Russian gas flows and its role in financing the war in Ukraine.

A UN-backed court in the Central African Republic said it had charged ex-rebel leader Abdoulaye Hissène with crimes against humanity and war crimes on Thursday (7 September).

Greece has joined the Three Seas Initiative (3SI), while Ukraine and Moldova have become associated states, according to the Joint Declaration of the Eighth Three Seas Initiative Summit in Bucharest. By becoming a Three Sea Initiative-associated state, Ukraine will be...

Bulgaria has started equipping its coast guard with missiles so that ‘no one dares to approach the Black Sea cities’ of the country, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov announced on Thursday while answering citizens’ questions on Facebook. Denkov added that the...

Slovakia is gearing up for a pivotal national parliament election on 30 September after enduring five years of political turbulence and upheaval marked, in particular, by the death of a journalist. The period of instability was sparked by the shocking...

The European Union is open to Georgia becoming a member, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday (7 September), but warned Tbilisi needed to implement sweeping reforms to get candidate status.

A new far-right list will contest the 2024 European elections in France, led by former MP Marion Maréchal, under the colours of Éric Zemmour's party, Reconquête!.

“Sound banking” must be the top priority for the European Investment Bank (EIB), German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Thursday (7 September), the same day that Margrethe Vestager, a contender for the bank’s top job, said she wants the EIB to take more risks.

MEPs are set to re-write their internal rulebook to strengthen the European Parliament’s transparency and integrity regime as part of the response to the Qatargate corruption scandal. 

Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition, we look at the latest evidence of the accountability...

The EU will aim to recycle at least 45% of each “Strategic Raw Material” contained in the Union’s waste under plans voted on by the European Parliament’s industry committee on Thursday (7 September).

Ding dong! Wedding bells ring in the European Parliament. Is it the Parliament's latest bizarre, contortionist move to get the youth involved, such as getting celebrities to promote the EU elections? Surprisingly, not. Is it the European People's Party's newest strategy to get new voters, as their poll projections are plummeting? Perhaps.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. With next year’s European elections closing in and conspiracy theories about the Digital Euro flying through the ether, the European Parliament is taking an overly cautious stance,...

The United Nations General Assembly designated today, 7 September, as the International Day of Clean Air. But the air we breathe globally is still not clean enough, and climate change is aggravating the situation, harming people’s health and diminishing their...

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary got a rude welcome in Brussels on Thursday (7 September) when he received two cream pies to the face while standing next to a cardboard cutout of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.

Following concession on the UK’s Online Safety Bill, the government remains of the opinion that message scanning for harmful content cannot happen until it is ‘technically feasible’ without compromising users’ privacy, yet tech companies are optimistic about potential changes. The...