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Agriculture Minister Elena Tanasković has requested the European Commission to extend the spending deadline for the IPARD farm fund to ensure €30 million in grants for Serbian farmers do not remain unused. Extending the deadline by one year would allow...

EU-backed plans for €3.5 billion in gas-fired power plants, pipelines, and liquefied natural gas terminals in the Western Balkans will introduce economic and security risks to the region and challenge the energy transition, according to research by Global Energy Monitor...

Hungary’s ‘lack of democratic values’ justifies US President Joe Biden’s decision not to invite Hungary to the Summit for Democracy, the US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman said at a closed-door meeting on Wednesday. First conceived by Biden as a...

Greece will finalise the construction of a fence at the land border with Turkey with or without financial support from the EU, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday amid strong reactions from the opposition who accused him of...

The European Parliament has adopted its position on the phase-out of F-gases, opting for a faster pathway, much to the consternation of business groups who are now turning to EU countries still deliberating their position.

Member states not building owners must be responsible for meeting objectives of the directive on the mandatory renovation of old and energy-intensive buildings, the director of Budovy21 and energy-saving construction expert Petr Holub said as EU Parliament backing the directive...

The investigation body under the Transport Ministry and main shareholder in railway operator ŽSR and trains operator ZSSK is not permanent and independent as required by the Railway Safety Directive, a source from the Commission told EURACTIV Slovakia. The Railway...

Sweden’s Tax Agency has been commissioned to carry out a national census to get a better picture of who is staying illegally in the country, Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson and far-right Sweden Democrat party leader Jimmie Åkesson told a press...

At least 1,081 complaints were made to the Albanian Commissioner for the Right to Information and Protection of Personal Data in 2022, particularly on reconstruction following the 2019 earthquake and public-private partnerships during the pandemic. A report published by the...

The Defence Ministry will investigate whether the use of Dutch F16s during the war against ISIS led to more civilian casualties than currently known in Iraq and Eastern Syria, Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren wrote in a letter to parliament on...

King Charles hailed the historic ties between Britain and Germany while lauding their current unity in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in an address to the Bundestag on 30 March) on his first state trip overseas as monarch.

If we take one message from last week’s IPCC climate change report - we are late to tackle the climate crisis. The impacts are already being seen and we must move immediately from plan to action to avert the worst-case scenario and catastrophe for the globe.

Progressive pricing, savings, and the fight against leaks are all part of the 53 measures in the new water management plan President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday to better tackle droughts. Macron announced his plan in Savines-le-Lac (Hautes-Alpes) to “prepare...

Far-right lawmakers walked out of parliament Thursday as Ukrainian President  Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an online address thanking the country for its support. Zelenskyy addressed Austria’s parliament Thursday after lawmakers had long failed to agree on whether Ukraine’s president could, or...

Bomb threats sent via email that led to the closure this past week of hundreds of Bulgarian schools set to act as polling stations for 2 April elections were hybrid attacks linked to Russia, Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said. According...

Poland remains the only EU country to openly oppose the ban on the sale of new cars with petrol or diesel engines from 2035, with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki saying he will “do anything” for it not to come into...

Madrid would be an excellent candidate for the headquarters of the future EU Anti Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) given its perfect record and pioneering initiatives on the matter, Mariano García Fresno, an expert on money laundering, told EuroEFE in an...

Poland must support domestic pharma industry to address rising production cost of medicines including generics to compete with Asia and avoid a potential manufacturers’ exodus, according to Krzysztof Kopeć.

Following Russia announcing its deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, “we have to be prepared for anything”, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola told Romanian’s television news channel Digi24 in an interview. Metsola, who took the helm of the EU...

Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to a porn star, becoming the first former US president to face criminal charges even as he makes another run for the White House.