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Weakened and highly defensive trade unions on the one side and a recourse to cheap technocratic arguments by centrist and centre-right governments on the other side make for a bad political cocktail, leading to bad policies.

To retain its credibility, the EU must back concrete 2030 and 2040 emission reduction targets for shipping at the final round of negotiations on the International Maritime Organization's climate strategy, writes Anaïs Rios.

Western Balkan nations are seeing a boom in solar energy investment, which could help ease a power crisis that had threatened a shift away from coal, but industry officials say transmission systems are not prepared for new energy feeds.

The European Parliament voted in favour on Thursday of starting interinstitutional negotiations on two directives that would give third nationals legally in the EU and those granted international protection residence and the right to work with faster application procedures.

Meta should continue with its COVID-19 misinformation policy but inquire into how its architecture may have amplified harmful content or targeted vulnerable groups, according to the company's review body. 

Europe experienced record heat stress levels during its warmest summer ever recorded, according to the European State of the Climate 2022, released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service; a wakeup call for a situation poised to become more frequent.

In a sensitive surprise visit, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in Kyiv on Thursday (20 April) for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion last February, in a show of support for Ukraine as it prepares to launch a counteroffensive.

The transatlantic partnership displayed remarkable unity in the face of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. With emerging technology and AI critical to the global fight between democracies and autocracies, a significant acceleration in cooperation should be the foundation of building new global democratic leadership.

State support for central Europe’s largest steelmaker, Dunaferr, which went into liquidation in December because of its ties with Russian owners, could be illegal under EU competition rules, lawyers say.

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday (19 April) in favour of a landmark regulation to ensure that products sold in the EU do not come from deforested or degraded land. 

Members of the European Parliament spelt out an ambitious target on Wednesday (19 April) for the EU’s future 5,000-strong crisis response force set to be operational next year, requesting a higher number of troops under a single EU command. In...

The EU needs Malaysia, and ASEAN, more than ever before to support its common foreign, security and defence policy, as new geopolitical fault lines have emerged, writes Thomas Matussek.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Serbia reiterating its opposition to Kosovo's UN membership bid, the German president asking for forgiveness for German crimes during World War II, and so much more.

On this week’s episode of the Beyond the Byline podcast, we are taking a closer look at Twitter’s current troubles with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), why journalists and media companies are turning their back on the platform and...

The Spitzenkandidat concept – which gives the winning group in the EU elections a chance to propose their lead candidate as European Commission president –  is quietly fading away, with even its initial backers becoming gradually less vocal about the...

Greece’s alternate foreign affairs minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis admitted that the New Democracy government (EPP) granted permission to export the illegal Predator spyware to Sudan, now facing a dramatic civil war. But speaking to Realfm, the minister insisted that “the export...

Efforts to boost carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe are insufficient according to the biofuels industry, who say the United States offer better incentives.

Albanians are the most pessimistic of all Western Balkan citizens when it comes to the economic outlook following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with almost half believing the situation will not improve. The Regional Cooperation Council carried out a Regional Barometer...

With under a month until Albania heads to the polls to elect mayors and regional councillors, a total of 132 political parties are present in the country, with more than 24,000 candidates in the running. R The May 2023 municipal...

Serbia will not support Kosovo’s membership to the UN, President Aleksandar Vučić said in discussions with Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Blistrem on Wednesday. In the discussions, Vučić discussed the normalisation of relations with Pristina and emphasised that the EU expects...