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The LGBTI Intergroup at the European Parliament watches over member states and the Commission closely while also influencing legislative files ‘to make sure the LGBTI community is not forgotten’, Greens/EFA MEP and co-President of the LGBTI Intergroup Kim van Sparrentak...

As a constitutionally neutral country, Austria has not restricted itself to humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine but has not gone further than delivering helmets, however, leading members of the two government parties are split on whether demining Ukrainian territories...

Spain violated current MEP and former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s political rights – and those of his constituents – by stripping him of his regional parliamentary seat, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled on Thursday. The Committee concludes that the...

China's President Xi Jinping on 19 May unveiled an ambitious plan to help elevate Central Asia to the next level of its development - from building infrastructure networks to boosting trade - while shunning "external interference" at the same time.

Following the gruesome death of an eight-year-old child at the hands of his stepfather, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reopened the topic of reinstating the death penalty, with over half of Poles supporting the idea despite the legal impossibility of implementing...

EU defence ministers will on Tuesday (23 May) review and update the list of defence projects launched under the ambitious PESCO umbrella, amid concerns that most projects will never make it over the line.

The French Senate adopted a resolution recognising the Holodomor famine as genocide in a move that ‘rewrites history’, said the Russian Embassy in France on Thursday. The resolution was adopted by senators on Wednesday evening by a vast majority. The...

A collaboration between socialists and conservatives to form a coalition government in Greece after the 21 May elections would not be a good option for the Mediterranean country, especially after a wiretapping scandal which has been shaking Greek politics for...

Leaders of the world's advanced democracies were set to unleash new sanctions against Russia as they gathered for a Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan's Hiroshima, a symbolic backdrop for their efforts to make Moscow end the Ukraine war.

We don’t know if Vladimir Putin will ultimately be able to make territorial gains at the expense of Ukraine but the Russian president has already irreversibly lost something more precious: the Baltic Sea, and to some extent, the Black Sea as well.

Ukraine said "unprecedented" air attacks had rocked its capital and other areas early Thursday (18 May), a day after it reached an agreement with Russia to extend a deal allowing grain exports across the Black Sea.

Turkey's opposition leader vowed Thursday to send back millions of migrants in a strident message aimed at winning the backing of an ultra-nationalist who helped push last weekend's presidential vote to a runoff.

The new greenhouse gas emission reduction target for transport fuels under the updated Renewable Energy Directive could reduce the amount of crop-based biofuels used in German road transport if implemented strictly, biofuel producers say.

Formal approval of the EU's renewable energy directive has been postponed following a last-minute objection by Paris, which wants further "guarantees" on low-carbon hydrogen derived from nuclear power.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Slovenian government cancelling remembrance day for communism victims, intelligence links being found in Russian companies operating in Hungary, and so much more.

On this week’s episode of the Beyond the Byline podcast, we take a look at the upcoming parliamentary elections in Greece on 21 May.

Left MEP Younous Omarjee said regional airport rules need to be assessed and adapted to each region following a visit to Romania, where the committee observed EU-funded infrastructure investments in the northwest and central regions. The visit was on behalf...

The EU’s renewable energy target for 2030 is at risk due to low ambition in Central and Eastern European countries. The upcoming revision of National Energy and Climate Plans is a crucial opportunity to remedy this, write Pawel Czyzak and Rebekka Popp.

The government revoked a decree that served as the legal basis for the commemoration just hours before Slovenia was due to mark National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Communist Violence on Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from the right...

Prime Minister Edi Rama called for the withdrawal of a controversial report alleging Albanian and Kosovar involvement in organ trafficking at the end of the Kosovo-Serbia war during a speech at the Council of Europe leaders summit in Reykjavik. In...