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Oil refinery Slovnaft has taken aim at the 70% windfall tax for 2022-2023 that was signed into law by President Zuzana Čaputová on Wednesday, even though it was previously set at 55% and only for 2022. The government led by...

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (12 April) began a nostalgia-filled tour of the Republic of Ireland, jetting in from Northern Ireland where he pushed for an end to political paralysis in the British province.

The Polish opposition is helping the Kremlin by touting media reports that companies connected to the ruling camp participated in importing Ukrainian grain to Poland, causing huge disruptions in the market, according to new Agriculture Minister Robert Telus. To facilitate...

The development of hydrogen and offshore wind energy will lower the country’s energy dependence, said Portuguese Environment And Climate Action Minister Duarte Cordeiro on Wednesday. The government is speeding up the licensing process for solar energy production and renovation of...

The reasoning behind Kaili’s release raises more questions than answers, according to a document seen by EURACTIV.

New Russian sanctions target those who knowingly assisted sanctioned oligarchs in hiding their assets in complex financial networks, the UK Foreign Office announced on Wednesday. Demetris Ioannides and Christodoulos Vassiliades – two Cypriot professional enablers who helped Roman Abramovich and...

Over half of Finns would favour Increasing work-based immigration, a survey published by Ilta-Sanomat on Wednesday, ahead of Friday’s upcoming coalition talks reads. Labour shortages and a low birth rate in Finland are already impacting the country’s economy and policy,...

The Netherlands and France signed a ‘Pact for Innovation and Sustainable Growth” on Wednesday that aims to foster cooperation in the fields of digitalisation, key technologies, and industrial sustainability. The pact was signed as part of French President Emmanuel Macron’s...

The upcoming pension system reform in Belgium should help reduce the gender gap as the current one no longer meets the standards of gender equality and the diversity of family models, a study published by the Institute for the Equality...

The pandemic and the ensuing energy and inflation crisis resulted in government expenditure for 2022 is higher and the deficit lower than initially foreseen in the budget proposal, APA reported. In total, the government spent €111.3 billion in 2022, with...

To end the spiralling political crisis in Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov, the former prime minister and leader of parliament’s biggest party GERB, is proposing to form a pro-European coalition with parliament’s second force, Change Continues-Democratic Bulgaria, and, if this does not...

Sunny weather has forced the Czech state-owned company ČEPS to disconnect hundreds of solar power plants from the grid for the first time in history as their high production levels created a surplus that threatened the national power grid. Plants...

Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has asked the state to help in an arbitration dispute with Finnish company Fortum over the construction of wind farms in Russia that was blocked by EU sanctions. The agreement on the construction of the...

France is behind on its path towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a parliamentary report adopted on Wednesday in which implementing a “real ecological planning” was also recommended. The report is based on a “flash” information mission that was...

The Ukrainian Army urgently needs anti-aircraft systems, demining equipment, artillery ammunition, and F-16 fighter jets, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who also made calls for an ‘international air coalition’ to be set up, said at a joint press conference with...

Germany's foreign minister begins a visit to China on Thursday (13 April) aiming to reassert a common European Union policy toward Beijing days after remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron suggested disarray in the continent's approach to the rising superpower.

The United States imposed sanctions on three top officials of the Russian-controlled International Investment Bank in Budapest on Wednesday (12 April) after it said Hungary had ignored US concerns raised over the "opaque Kremlin platform".

In an EU-wide first, Austria's data protection authority DSB ruled that readers can specifically say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to cookie paywalls, a widely used model by news media that requires readers to consent to data processing practices or pay for a subscription.

The German government has decided to lobby Brussels to change EU laws on cannabis and will rework its plans to legalise the drug after the European Commission rejected an initial legislative draft.

Russia has conducted what it said was the successful test launch of an "advanced" intercontinental ballistic missile, weeks after it suspended participation in its last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States.