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There is no time to lose for Germany and France to finally sit down and build an ambitious EU industrial policy which will protect European industries vis-à-vis the US and China, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday,...

The weekend G20 summit was India's big moment on the world stage, giving the country an opportunity to work on global issues and providing Prime Minister Narendra Modi a chance to present his credentials as a global statesman.

American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been sent a letter by two US senators over the situation for ethnic Albanians in the Presevo Valley, where researchers and human rights groups have sounded the alarm about their “administrative ethnic cleansing”...

Slovenia is stepping up pressure on Croatia to improve policing of the EU’s external border amidst mounting concerns by locals living along the border about an almost three-fold increase in migrations, according to Interior Minister Boštjan Poklukar, who phoned his...

Three environmental NGOs have urged the EU Commission to enforce a memorandum on Romania's illegal logging in an open letter addressed to Commissioner Sinkevičius.

The EU is at risk of lagging behind with strategic climate technologies, unless the right incentives and investments are put in place to unlock the potential of European startup companies, writes Craig Douglas. 

Health systems in Europe were facing significant problems pre-COVID, from underfunded primary and social care to workforce shortages and inequities in access to care, while addressing growing challenges such as ageing populations and the rise in non-communicable diseases. The ensuing...

A faction of French President Emmanuel Macron's parliamentary majority and several leading left-wing figures are rallying behind a campaign to regularise the status of undocumented immigrant workers in understaffed professions.

Prosecutor General Maroš Žilinka has been using a controversial paragraph 363 to cancel corruption indictments, including of former Prime Minister Robert Fico, and has refused to share the decisions with President Zuzana Čaputová, who has asked the Constitutional Court for...

Věra Jourová, the vice-president of the EU Commission for Values and Transparency, will not seek another mandate, paving the way for Czechia to nominate a new representative after the 2024 European elections. Jourová, who is currently serving her second term...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would discuss Pyongyang's satellite program, among other issues, as they met on Wednesday (13 September) at a cosmodrome in Russia's Far East.

The Portuguese government is working on various solutions to minimise the impact of the nine-week production stoppage at VW’s Autoeuropa car factory for workers and supplier companies, said the Secretary of State for Labour, Miguel Fontes. “We already have a...

Spain’s Constitutional Court formally rejected the request by the Socialist Party of acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to review the 30,000 decisive yet invalid votes cast in Madrid’s snap general election on 23 July. The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal...

The Danish government presented a new package of anti-gang measures to counter rising gang-related crime in the country on Tuesday, which includes stricter sanctions for young people involved and a call for their families to take responsibility. The package consists...

The resignation of former prime minister Sanna Marin from her parliamentary seat for the Social Democrats was officially ratified during Tuesday’s plenary session of the Finnish parliament, with her withdrawal taking effect on Wednesday. This decision follows the approval of...

Leading a trade delegation of 29 Flemish companies, Flanders Minister-President Jan Jambon (N-VA/ECR) began his visit to Vietnam on Tuesday with a meeting with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bùi Thanh Son and the prime minister. The visit aims to strengthen cooperation...

Austria’s former foreign minister Karin Kneissl, who made international headlines after she danced with Russian President Vladimir Putin at her wedding in 2018, is emigrating to Russia to lead a think tank. Kneissl was foreign minister of Austria between 2017...

Apple unveiled its new iPhone lineup on Tuesday (12 September), with its Lightning charger ports replaced on the newest models by a universal charger after a tussle with the European Union.

Bulgaria no longer supports extending the European ban on grain import from Ukraine, as the three parties supporting the government proposed the National Assembly to withdraw support of the ban, which will take effect on Friday. The economic parliamentary committee...

Poland will not let Ukrainian grain imports resume regardless of whether Brussels decides to prolong restrictions, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on social media on Tuesday. EU import restrictions for certain Ukrainian agricultural products – wheat, maise, rapeseed, and...