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The average price of essential foods in Portugal went up almost 30% since 2022, with Portugal’s food and safety body estimating that a food basket went from €74.90 at the start of 2022 to €96.44 today, the government announced Thursday....

The heated pre-election that mirrors tensions, including within the coalition, should not spoil the country’s upcoming EU Council presidency, Ignacio Molina, a senior researcher at the Elcano Royal Institute think tank, told Euroefe. Spain will hold its municipal elections in...

Agents recruited by Belarusian security may be among members of Belarusian opposition in Lithuania, according to Lithuania’s intelligence. “There’s a high probability there are actively recruited KGB agents among them [Belarusian opposition members], and they provide information to the Belarusian...

The European Commission on Thursday (9 March) relaxed state aid rules for green technology that helps reduce carbon emissions, in its bid to counter the threat to European industry from US and Chinese subsidies.

Finland saw its share of foreign workers almost double over the past ten years, according to a survey by ETLA Economic Research which evaluated the effects of this trend as positive. From 2010 to 2020, the share of foreign workers...

The Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs Taskforce (REPO) has worked to block or freeze over £48 billion in Russian assets with the help of the UK, which alone froze over €20 billion. UK Security Minister Tom Tugendhat met with the...

The construction of an expanded electricity line connecting Germany and Austria has begun, with the €600 million investment expected to increase grid stability and help provide cheaper power to industry in the region.

The European Commission and Germany’s Digital and Transport Ministry are confident an agreement on the EU combustion engine ban can be reached, after a call between Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP/Renew Europe) and EU Climate Chief Frans Timmermans on Thursday....

The decision to liberalise visas for citizens of Kosovo was approved by the 27 EU ministers at the Council of Internal Affairs in Brussels on Thursday, which must come into effect no later than 1 January 2024. Kosovo was the...

Poland is ready to deliver its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine as part of an international coalition, President Andrzej Duda told CNN in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, adding that Ukrainian pilots will need to be trained to operate them. Poland...

A gunman believed to have been acting alone killed several people on Thursday (9 March) in a Jehovah's Witness church in the German city of Hamburg, police said, as they focussed their investigation on the motive for the attack.

Meat consumers who care about the environment must choose Swedish meat, said Agriculture Minister Peter Kullgren, while Swedish experts believe the problem with meat lies elsewhere.

The new migration deal that will be used to ‘solve’ the migration crisis was presented by Prime minister Alexander De Croo and Asylum and Migration State Secretary Nicole de Moor during a press conference on Wednesday. Belgium was previously condemned...

In a bid to further the EU's energy independence, the European Commission has announced an action plan in the coming months to boost the manufacturing and deployment of heat pumps in Europe.

EU migration ministers have vowed to agree a common position on two key files in the proposed Immigration and Asylum Pact in a bid to finally overhaul the bloc’s rules before next May’s European elections. 

Germany will “acknowledge and not oppose” plans to recognise the contribution nuclear energy is making to the EU’s decarbonisation objective, a special advisor to the German Chancellor said on Thursday (9 March).

The emergency use of all banned plant protection products in the EU could soon be a thing of the past, according to the European Commission’s initial reading of the recent EU court ruling involving specifically bee-toxic pesticides.

The European Parliament's Industry committee voted Thursday (9 March) in favour of MEP Henna Virkkunen’s draft report proposing introducing common cybersecurity standards across EU institutions, paving the way for starting trilogue negotiations.

Belarus is clearly a co-belligerent country in Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. But why is the EU so soft on Aleksander Lukashenko, often labelled Europe’s "last dictator"?

France and the UK are set to meet in a bid to mend relations between Western Europe's biggest military and diplomatic powers after years of post-Brexit tensions and animosity over the AUKUS security pact between the UK, US, and Australia.