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A bill aimed at increasing the share of renewable energy sources in Poland’s energy mix will enter into force soon after being signed off by President Andrzej Duda.

The government has made ‘no effort’ since the start of the war in Ukraine to apply the sanctions defined by the EU, particularly with regard to the assets of Russian oligarchs, said Portugal’s Frente Cívica (Civic Front) association on Wednesday....

The Spanish Foreign Ministry has lodged a formal complaint with the UK’s embassy in Madrid over what Madrid deems to be three ‘serious incidents’ in waters near the Rock of Gibraltar in August. According to a ministry source in touch...

Partido Popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo only wants to ‘save his own skin’ with the offer he made to acting Prime Minister and socialist leader Pedro Sánchez to put in place a two-year conservative government, the spokesperson of the progressive...

Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt’s husband bought shares in arms manufacturer Kongsberg Gruppen in recent years while she was in office, although she was unaware at the time, the minister told a press conference on Wednesday. “Based on an assessment by...

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD, Renew) positioned himself against a proposal aiming to regulate undocumented migrants – which was issued to address the unemployment crisis in Wallonia – on Wednesday. This proposal was made earlier this summer in...

While radical left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused French President Emmanuel Macron of having supported incumbent president Ali Bongo until the end, Marine Le Pen pointed to the- in her words- pitiful results of the government’s African policy. In Gabon, Ali...

Bulgarian oligarch Vasil Bozhkov, who returned home from Dubai on Friday after three years in hiding from multiple criminal charges, is trying to get off the US sanctions list under the Global Magnitsky Act, where he ended up in the...

The European Commission wants ALL packaging recyclable by 2030. A reduction in waste is also targeted, along with increased reuse and refill. But is the food and beverage industry on course to do its part to meet those European targets?...

The Czech ANO party of former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has given ALDE – a pan-European liberal political party, which is represented in the European Parliament as Renew Europe – materials in which it defends its liberalism in a bid...

An argument broke out between the ruling Liberals and their ally far-right party, Sweden Democrats, over the obligation for schools to report children from undocumented families on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) reportedly demanded that the Liberal...

The German government will make it easier to reject asylum applications from Georgia and Moldova by classifying them as safe countries of origin in legislation that was passed by the cabinet at a two-day retreat at Meseberg Castle and will...

Italy will have to decide whether or not to renew the ‘Silk Road’ or ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) by the end of the year, but Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has shied away from giving a definitive indication of...

The United States is concerned that arms negotiations between Russia and North Korea are advancing actively, the White House said on Wednesday (30 August).

The US is working with Romania and Moldova to increase Ukraine's grain exports via the Danube river as it explores alternative routes after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a US official said on 30 August.

Failure to give Ukraine the support it needs to defend itself against the Russian invasion will have a higher cost for everyone, including European countries, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Gabrelius Landsbergis told EURACTIV.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried on Wednesday (30 August) what he described as systematic corruption in medical exemptions to people avoiding military service, saying the system was subject to bribes and mass departures abroad.

Following in the footsteps of the West African regional body ECOWAS, the EU aims to slap the same sanctions on the junta that seized power in Niger several weeks ago, EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell confirmed in Toledo, Spain on Wednesday (30 August).

The latest coups in Africa have exposed some uncomfortable truths: The continent is on the verge of unravelling, and the EU is not only unable or unwilling to help - it is most probably not even fully aware of the situation on the ground.

Insufficient rest opportunities are forcing tired pilots in the EU to fly longer than they should, with three-quarters of pilots experiencing “microsleeps” in the cockpit while airborne, a new report has found.