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The 15 March regional elections in the Netherlands showed a historic success of the self-declared agrarian interest party BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), a relatively young party founded in 2019. The Ipsos exit poll for the rural Overijssel region shows that the party...

Bulgaria’s caretaker government announced that it is looking into a windfall tax of up to 33% to drastically reduce the current budget deficit for the year announced just a few weeks before the elections.

A farmers' protest party shook up the political landscape in the Netherlands on Wednesday (15 March), emerging as the big winner in provincial elections that determine the make-up of the Senate.

A Polish court has sentenced pro-abortion activist Justyna Wydrzynska to eight months of community service for illegally helping another woman get an abortion, but the European Commission and Parliament have remained tight-lipped.

Kremlin critics were cheered this week when a Western documentary about jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny won an Oscar, but his political movement is in turmoil and some Ukrainian politicians say the award is undeserved.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the US only has a “limited impact” on EU markets, and the EU banking sector remains “in good shape”, financial services Commissioner Mairead McGuinness told lawmakers on Wednesday.

Czech courts have so far convicted nine people, most of whom received fines, for approving Russian aggression in Ukraine, the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday.

European Central Bank governors will meet Thursday (16 March), with fears over a widening banking crisis testing their resolve to raise interest rates again by a hefty half percentage point.

Environmental campaigners have accused the European Commission of trying to reverse the European Parliament’s decision to ban soy for biofuel production over fears that it could expose the EU to legal challenges at the WTO.

Spain’s employers’ association CEOE rejected the ‘historic’ pension reform agreement, signed by the government and the country’s main trade unions on Wednesday despite the Commission previously giving its green light. The formal signature came after the government and the Commission...

Spain taking over the EU Council presidency in July could create “new momentum” for EU trade policy, particularly with regard to the trade agreements with Mexico, Chile and Mercosur, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa said on Wednesday. At the closing...

China’s role in Russia’s war in Ukraine is “more destructive than constructive”, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said. “Unfortunately, I see the aim of China is to continue this war, to make this war even more bloody and in such...

Finland will not be able to donate four of its Allegro high-speed trains Ukraine requested for transporting people between liberated areas during Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Kyiv one-day visit on Friday because of contractual reasons. In a brief encounter, the...

Grand Duke Henri dismissed accusations of staff mistreatment within the Grand Ducal Court when asked during a press conference at the end of his four-day Latvia trip on Wednesday. The Grand Duke, Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, Economy Minister Franz Fayot,...

The UK is expected to soon ban the Chinese social media app TikTok from government devices, following in the footsteps of the US, Canada, Denmark, Belgium and the EU institutions. The ban is expected to be announced as soon as...

Following weeks of infighting, the Social Democrats decided on Friday to give its members the chance to select the party’s future leader before the summer, marking the start of a race between candidates for the top position. It was agreed...

The recently-founded Moderaterne centrist party of former prime minister and current Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen joined the Renew Europe political group in the EU Parliament as his son unexpectedly switched to another party. Bergur Løkke Rasmussen, former MEP for...

Farmers in countries neighbouring Ukraine, including grain-producing Romania, need help to compete with the proliferation of cheap grain from the war-torn state.

Slovakia’s environment ministry must join Germany, Austria, Poland, Italy and the Czech Republic in opposing the EU’s de facto combustion engine ban from 2035, according to a resolution voted by Slovak lawmakers on Wednesday.

Russia’s mercenary Wagner group has put a $15 million bounty on Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto (FDI/ECR), who blamed the group for causing the increased migration wave to Italy, a report by the Italian intelligence services reads. News of the...