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Portugal’s extremist far-right Chega party has decided to postpone the “World Right Summit” – a meeting with international far-right figures that the party was organising and was scheduled for mid-May in Lisbon – following harassment experienced by some of the...

The country’s left-wing government received an unexpected boost for its future political ambitions on Thursday ahead of Spain’s regional elections: record employment figures and a tangible reduction of unemployment data, a considerable achievement in post-pandemic and war, times. Currently, there...

Billions of euros of investments in defence spending will be used to modernise the army and help cope with accumulated challenges such as decaying facilities, the government announced on Thursday. Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen declared at a press conference...

Andrea Jelinek is the first Chair of the European Data Protection Board. We discussed with her the first five years of GDPR enforcement, the progress that still needs to be done and the challenges posed by AI like ChatGPT.

Following a massive migration to the West, Romania has seen an increase in the number of doctors, but the current ratio (346 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants) is still not enough.

A surprise visit to Zagreb by Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic as well as her meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, is seen as the first concrete step towards the normalisation of strained relations between Croatia and Serbia. Admittedly, the...

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the Association of Ukrainian Cities are organising summer camps all over the EU to host Ukrainian children to offer targeted psychological help to stabilise their emotional state and distract them from traumatising...

Chancellor Karl Nehammer told the Austrian parliament that he opposed a more deeply integrated EU, rejecting a German-led push for a move away from unanimity voting, citing European countries’ individual histories. On Thursday, a nine-country coalition led by German made...

The communist motion for a resolution condemning Israel’s “apartheid” of Palestinians and calling for an economic boycott of the country was rejected by the French National Assembly on Thursday, which rekindled differences on the left of the political spectrum. The...

In the framework of cooperation on security and the fight against terrorism with Belgium, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will welcome Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo to the Matignon Hotel on Friday, Borne’s cabinet announced in a press release...

The Renew group in the European Parliament might not agree on a joint position on reforming EU fiscal rules, German FDP spokesperson Michael Georg Link said on Thursday, amid a split between the group’s German and French delegations, FDP and...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew Europe) met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in The Hague on Remembrance Day on Thursday, which evoked harsh criticism of the visit’s timing from opposition forces. After he left Finland, Zelenskyy arrived at Schiphol...

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang assured his Russian and Indian counterparts of deepening bilateral ties, promising that "coordination and cooperation" will only grow stronger, in a show of solidarity with two of China's biggest neighbours.

Acting Agriculture Minister Samuel Vlčan resigned on Thursday after his company received an EU funds grant worth €1.4 million – money he insists on keeping. While Vlčan refused to step down on Wednesday as he saw no problem with it,...

Azerbaijan is set to invest significantly in gas infrastructure in Albania amid ongoing expansion into the region’s gas distribution network, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said at a geopolitics conference Thursday, but not everyone is convinced this is a good idea....

The government, supported by the Sweden Democrats right-wing populists, declared the income requirement for foreign workers would double in a bid to curb migration, the migration minister announced on Thursday. Income requirements for labour immigrants will be raised from SEK...

The Bavarian conservative Christian Democratic Party (CSU) ruled out any coalition with the far right after the Italian Lega party of Matteo Salvini made advances to edge closer towards the centre-right European Peoples Party (EPP). According to several Italian media...

Eight people were killed and at least 10 were wounded in a shooting Thursday night (4 May) in the town of Mladenovac, south of Belgrade, local media reported, with police setting up roadblocks in their hunt for the gunman. The...

After a brief thawing, the frost has once again returned between Rome and Paris after French Interior Minister Gerald Darminin called Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “incapable” of controlling the migratory phenomenon, and Italy responded by cancelling Foreign Minister Antonio...

The humiliating spectacle for Russia of two drones flying over the Kremlin, its historic seat of power, has spawned conflicting theories about who did it and why - but for Vladimir Putin the incident could yet prove useful politically.