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The EU's cohesion policy, which aims at reducing regional disparities, benefits high-skilled, richer households more than low-income households and exacerbates inequality within EU regions, according to a recent study.

Sellers of e-cigarettes and similar products will be fined around €430 for selling to minors, according to a recent amendment to the Law on Consumer Protection. In Serbia, minors can purchase e-cigarettes and other products such as vapes in local...

Bulgarian health care is up against a number of challenges, including an imbalance in the types of staff leading to a nurse shortage and issues with funding, putting the health of citizens at risk. Bulgaria had the second highest death...

Some 200 books in the Albanian language have been collected by local residents in the city of Pogradec in Albania, to send to ethnic Albanians living in Serbia who have expressed difficulties in accessing such literature in local libraries and...

The implementation of the national recovery plan is being delayed as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government struggles to solve the age-old problem related to the Public Administration spending funds from Brussels, MP Piero De Luca (PD/S&D) told EURACTIV Italy. The...

The recent words of top Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev about nobody needing Ukraine and why it should no longer exist  were harshly criticised by Polish Government Plenipotentiary for the Security of Information Space Stanisław Żaryn, who also called Medvedev “a...

Europe has not made enough progress in locking in long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative to Russian pipeline supply, which may prove costly next winter as a rebound in Chinese demand could sharply tighten the market.

Pipes and pumps at Denmark’s biogas plants will be checked starting this week to reduce the leakage at biogas plants reported to average 2.5% of the methane produced.

The weapons systems donated by Copenhagen were praised by Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov during Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen’s trip to Odesa on Monday. On Monday, Poulsen met with Reznikov, who declared during a joint press conference that...

Faced with healthcare staff shortages, the Helsinki University Hospital has asked parent if they would be prepared to have their children undergo surgery in Copenhagen or Gothenburg. The New Children’s Hospital in Helsinki has been unable to meet the legally...

The context for this power market reform has been formed on one hand by the security concerns, and high energy prices on the other. Do you think that this proposal brings us closer to a more secure power system and...

Russian forces pounded frontline cities in eastern Ukraine with air strikes and artillery attacks, while Kyiv played down a report that it is amending some plans for a counter-offensive due to a leak of classified US intelligence documents.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s renewed push to boost EU strategic autonomy and for the bloc to be less eager to sign up to US foreign policy goals has been met with stern criticism from German politicians, although the government has...

The UK and South Korea will work towards a cleaner, more energy-secure future by focusing on renewable energy sources and energy independence, particularly from Russia, the governments announced in a joint statement on Monday.

Deputy Mayor of Schwechat David Stockinger, a centre-left SPÖ politician, has stepped down after it was revealed that he had appeared in far-right magazines and donned Soviet uniforms in Belarus. When large parts of the SPÖ party, which is currently...

Thousands of Israelis, including ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government, marched to an evacuated Jewish outpost in the West Bank on Monday (10 April) in support of settlements viewed as illegal under international law.

One Russian gets a Bulgarian passport daily, a total of 356 in 2022, according to EURACTIV Bulgaria’s partner Segabg.com, citing data from the president’s office. In total, in 2022, 7,410 people acquired citizenship based on Bulgarian origin, a Bulgarian citizen...

The Smer-SD party of former prime minister Robert Fico has been leading opinion polls since March for the first time in years, and is followed by the Hlas-SD party belonging to former Smer-SD member Peter Pellegrini. According to the most...

Spanish centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP) would likely win if a general election were held today, while the recent emergence of left-wing party Sumar may not be enough to boost the chances of all progressive forces, including the currently governing socialist...

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to travel to the Netherlands on Tuesday to push for a massive EU investment plan in line with the Commission’s Net-Zero Industry Act alongside political and economic stakeholders.