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Prime Minister Edi Rama has promised the average salary of Albanians will reach around €900, or 102,000 lek, more than double what it was a decade ago, just over two months before local elections. The average salary in 2022, according...

The Environment Ministry’s voting in favour of the EU’s de facto combustion engine ban in Tuesday’s Council meeting was unconstitutional as it effectively bypassed the National Council’s European affairs committee previously opposing the ban, the opposition Freedom and Solidarity Party...

Switzerland on Wednesday (29 March) signalled readiness to resume talks with the EU towards a cooperation agreement, after shocking its largest trading partner in 2021 by suddenly cutting short years of negotiations.

The CEOs of the largest social media companies must fight disinformation more effectively, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS, ECR), along with seven other European prime ministers, wrote in an open letter that warns against using platforms to incite riots,...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will send a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling for immediate steps to remedy Polish farmers’ problems since the EU allowed cheap grain imports from Ukraine. Last year, the EU established...

The IRIS² telecommunication satellite network is set to become the third significant satellite program for the EU, after Galileo and Copernicus. This system will offer the bloc a broadband distribution network for both civilian and military use. In addition, it...

Energy giant Repsol has bought into Europe's drive for green jet fuel, but believes the €200 million plant it is building in southeast Spain faces a bumpier ride than if it was on the other side of the Atlantic.

Tuesday’s attack on the Ishmaelite Centre was a terrorist act that resulted from a ‘psychotic breakdown by the attacker’, not an act of terrorism, the National Director of Portugal’s criminal investigation police agency, Luís Neves, said on Wednesday. On 28...

Spain will send the first shipment of six Leopard battle tanks it had promised to Kyiv right after Easter, with four other tanks currently being overhauled for the same purpose, Defence Minister Margarita Robles confirmed on Wednesday. The six tanks...

Nothing is off the table regarding limiting and reducing the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, which reportedly costs over £6 million daily, said Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab on Wednesday. “The hotels are the incentive” for small boat...

The European Commission's transport unit chief Henrik Hololei has been transferred to another post, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday (29 March). The transfer comes after a row over several Qatar-paid trips Hololei took.

To crack down on crime and improve public health, the Netherlands will ban the possession, transport and sale of more than 100 chemical materials linked to the production of hard drugs, Justice and Security Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius and Health, Welfare...

French left-wing delegations in the European Parliament wanted to open a debate on police violence and the “repression” of demonstrations in France, but without success, as EU lawmakers refused to address purely national issues. In a vote on Wednesday, MEPs...

Opposition members and green campaigners in Germany have criticised the government for weakening the country’s climate law after it reached compromises on key contentious issues after days and nights of negotiations.

Belgian authorities have charged seven people over "possible terrorist attacks", federal prosecutors said on Wednesday (29 March).

Four Western Balkan countries, but not Serbia, on Wednesday, launched the new Western Balkans QUAD- 100% Alignment with EU Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) platform aimed at ensuring full alignment with the EU acquis on security and foreign policy matters....

Italian parties are divided on same-sex couples adopting children as the decision to ban the automatic registration of same-sex couple’s children in the civil registry has polarised the debate, with the Italian Left standing firm in support of civil rights....

Sweden has increased its greenhouse gas emissions while other EU member states are reducing them since the new right-wing government, in office for five months, changed its tack on climate policy.

The far-right FPÖ party criticised the parliament’s invitation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time via video on Thursday, calling it an ‘attack on Austria’s neutrality’. Zelenskyy will deliver his speech before parliament via video on Thursday morning,...

The Russian Embassy in Stockholm has threatened Sweden and Finland with military retaliation if the two countries join the NATO alliance, pointing to the increasing number of Swedes expressing solidarity with Russia and shunning Stockholm’s ‘transatlantic ambitions’. The post appeared...