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Germany's last-minute refusal to support the EU's combustion engine ban hurts Europe's economic interests but also the EU's ability to regulate its market. Unless Germany backs down, its intervention will cast doubt over the process of EU lawmaking, writes Julia Poliscanova.

Italy’s right-wing government has told Milan’s city council to stop registering same-sex parents’ children, re-igniting a debate around Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s conservative agenda. Italy legalised same-sex civil unions in 2016, overriding opposition from Catholic and conservative groups, yet it...

The recent train tragedy, which cost the lives of 57 people, has had several political repercussions for the ruling conservative New Democracy party (EPP), as new polls suggest that it is now in a neck-and-neck race with leftist Syriza party...

Portugal performs well in areas such as renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions and air quality but needs to improve in waste recovery and the circular economy, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Weber, who faces severe internal problems with his EPP leadership, lashed out at the leftist coalition for Spain’s “uncertain” support to Ukraine, ahead of the country’s EU Council presidency in the second half of 2023.

Russian citizen Svetlana Timofeeva, arrested in Albania on espionage charges and set to be extradited to Russia, has applied for political asylum under claims Moscow will persecute her for her views on the war in Ukraine.

The high-level meeting in Ohrid between Belgrade and Pristina aims to find a “win-win situation and open the European door”, the EU’s Represenative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Miroslav Lajčak during his visit to Belgrade.

The fate of Finland’s current Prime Minister, Sanna, will be decided in April’s parliamentary elections for which the latest polls put her current five-party coalition in poll position according to the latest figures. The five-party coalition, composed of Marin’s Social...

Berlin on Tuesday (14 March) frustrated EU members by demanding last-minute changes to a previously agreed text on overhauling budget rules, as German domestic politics spills further into Europe.

China and Russia are bolstering their presence in Africa to tap its rich natural resources, analysts say, amid grave warnings from UN agencies the world's poorest countries face accumulating crippling debts.

Hungarian oil company MOL plans to sell 39 service stations in Slovenia to Shell to receive EU Commission clearance for the takeover of the Slovenian branch of Austrian oil company OMV, the country’s second-largest chain of service stations. 

Technology and application experts welcome the latest revision of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. They recognize the critical role of the water sector in mitigating climate change and emphasize the need for wastewater treatment plants to monitor process gas emissions.

Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is trailing behind his primary opponent, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who leads the centre-left CHP party and the centrist multiparty Millet İttifakı electoral alliance, polls published two months ahead of the 14 May presidential elections show.

A farmers' protest party looks set to shake up the political landscape in the Netherlands on Wednesday (15 March), with polls indicating it will be the big winner in provincial elections that determine the make-up of the Senate.

Bulgaria recorded a record low level of 1.5% illegal cigarettes being distributed in the country at the end of 2022, data from Tuesday from the Initiative against Illegal Trade show.

Hungary's ruling party lawmakers want to postpone next week's parliament session, which means a further delay in its ratification of Finland and Sweden's NATO admission.

Core inflation hit a new record despite efforts put in place by the government to contain the country’s CPI index, the state-owned National Statistics Institute (INE) reported on Tuesday. In Spain, core inflation climbed to 7.6% in February, one-tenth of a percentage...

Interior Ministry employees should consider deleting the Chinese social media app from their phones as it is considered a security threat, the ministry wrote in a statement on Tuesday.

Six out of nine political parties want to introduce a health tax to tackle the issue of obesity in Finland during the next parliamentary term, a new survey found. The number of overweight adults has doubled since 1980, with two...

The Netherlands will provide the Ukrainian army with two mine hunters for use in the Black and Azov Seas, drone detection radar systems and M3 Amphibious Rig bridging vehicles, Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren announced during a visit to Ukraine on...