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The proposal for a resolution that would recognise Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism tabled by the opposition Democrats was voted down by parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee on Tuesday even though the European Parliament passed a similar resolution last...

Acting Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced he and some of his ministerial colleagues are forming a new party ahead of the September elections. Heger announced his departure from Ordinary People and Independent Personalities on Monday night, and on Tuesday, he...

The EU’s largest economy is steering towards a bleak future, with businesses more pessimistic than during the height of the pandemic, a leaked EU paper reads. The paper, which is from the Commission, looks into how the current energy crisis...

Ukrainian refugees in Poland will have to cover half of their accommodation costs from March onwards, according to plans the European Commission says it was not notified of. From 1 March, Ukrainian refugees that stay in Poland for more than...

Volleys of Russian missiles struck a series of Ukrainian regions early on Thursday (9 March), including the Black Sea port of Odesa and the second city of Kharkiv, knocking out power to several areas, regional officials said.

Helsinki has been using competitions to encourage sustainable construction and is leading the way in reducing the sector's carbon impact, write Tomi Rantala and Kaisa-Reeta Koskinen.

A battle of wills over ambition in a new law to improve energy efficiency in Europe risks delaying an agreement on the bill ahead of another round of negotiations on Thursday (9 March).

The new compromise on the draft data law, seen by EURACTIV, further refines the protection of trade secrets and clarifies the relationship with data protection rules and the application of the cloud-switching provisions.

In its fiscal policy guidance for 2024, the European Commission struck down the general escape clause that deactivated the EU's fiscal rules since the start of the pandemic, announcing that it will launch "Excessive Deficit Procedures" (EDP) in spring 2024.

This International Women's Day, as in years before, and likely in years to come, women are faced with a long fight ahead of them.

EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski defended the Commission’s ambition to slash emissions in livestock farming, despite acknowledging weaknesses in the data collection process used to put the proposal together.

A Bulgarian fact-checking news website risks bankruptcy after an insurance company filed a SLAPP lawsuit for the record sum of 1 million leva (€500,000) for a publication based on the official transcript of a government session.

The Iranian government claimed last week it had found a new deposit of lithium in the Hamedan province, worth 10% of all global lithium resources, but experts say this marks no shift in EU-Iran diplomatic ties.

Rearing of cattle or pigs in farms using extensive production systems should be exempted from the scope of the EU’s plans to slash industrial emissions, according to a leaked draft of the ministers' general approach, which also proposes a stepwise approach for when the new rules should apply.

As the European Commission puts the finishing touches to its Critical Raw Materials Act ahead of publication next week, recyclers have issued a word of caution: Europe should not get its hopes too high on recycling, at least not in the short term.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Wednesday (8 March) warned against reaching premature conclusions on who was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, suggesting the attack could also have been a "false flag" operation to blame Ukraine.

If Europe achieves its 2030 biomethane target it will have unwittingly created the conditions to cheaply mitigate the carbon emissions equivalent to an entire member state, writes James Cogan.

French energy and oil sector employees may be pivotal in pressuring the government to give up on its hotly-contested pensions reform plan, as they are pledging a "black week for energy" in protest of the plans.

The European Parliament’s rapporteur Birgit Sippel has sent a letter, seen by EURACTIV, to the Swedish ambassador, asking the EU Council presidency holders to accelerate work on a file that seems to be off their priority list.

Ukraine is in urgent need of more rehabilitation care centres, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said at a conference on Tuesday (7 March) as conflict and civilian casualties reach into the thousands.