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EURACTIV’s editor’s take on Tuesday regarding EU Parliament chief Roberta Metsola’s silence over the Greek conservative government’s sabotage of a parliamentary rule of law mission to Athens, has prompted the reaction of Maltese socialists, who accused centre-right Metsola of “double standards” and “hypocrisy”. Read more.

Influential businessman Veliko Zhelev, whose companies were contracted to help build one of Bulgaria’s largest EU-funded infrastructure projects, has been accused of coercion and beating a man. Zhelev was arrested following a complaint by a former employee who told police...

Gas prices will rise at least once this year, probably twice, General Director of Srbijagas Dušan Bajatović announced at the Kopaonik Business Forum, adding that the increase will apply to both citizens and businesses. The incoming gas price increase is...

Slovenia’s top court has abrogated a law that required the central bank to compensate those who lost their investments during the banking sector bailout of 2013 when tens of thousands of holders of shares and junior bonds were completely wiped...

Switzerland remains opposed to exporting arms to war-torn Ukraine, the famously neutral country's President Alain Berset said Tuesday (7 March) on the sidelines of meetings at the United Nations.

The responsibility to protect the EU’s external borders must be shared by all EU countries, said Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen as she visited the country that recently joined the Schengen visa-free area on Tuesday, meeting with her Croatian counterpart,...

Hungary is also training Ukrainian soldiers, said Slovak Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad’ on Monday, debunking the neutral approach to Russia’s war Viktor Orban’s government has asserted so far. Nad’ spoke to Foreign Minister Rastislav Káčer about the war in Ukraine...

Poland is ready to set up a service centre for the Leopard tanks being handed over to Ukraine by NATO countries, Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak told a press briefing ahead of the EU defence ministers’ meeting in Stockholm. The hub...

Parliament rejected a controversial bill that aims to further restrict one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe on Tuesday, with some conservative members of the ruling PiS saying off the record that they did not want the bill to...

New intelligence reviewed by US officials suggests that a pro-Ukraine group - likely comprised of Ukrainians or Russians - attacked the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September, the New York Times reported on Tuesday (7 March).

Kristel Kruustük, Co-founder of Tallin-based software testing company Testlio, explains how her testing model reduces barriers within the tech sector and proliferates socio-economic opportunities globally. Known for leading with passion, she encourages burgeoning entrepreneurs to trust their instincts.

Large public and private companies must ensure women make up at least 40% of their decision-making bodies from 2026, according to a draft bill approved by the government on Tuesday that also applies to election candidates, members of government and...

Before imposing measures on individuals to increase the housing supply, like forcing them to rent out their vacant properties, the government should look inwards and set the example, Lisbon’s Mayor, Carlos Moedas (PSD), said at a conference about housing on...

EU border agency Frontex did not provide Italian authorities with any warnings or distress alerts regarding the migrants whose boat shipwrecked off the coast of Calabria that, left many dead at the end of February, said Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi,...

The top spot in the upcoming April elections is still up for grabs as three parties are currently neck-and-neck in the race to form a coalition that will most likely not be a repeat of the current five-party coalition, the...

Firefighters from all over Belgium took to the streets of Brussels on Tuesday to protest their current working conditions and the government’s plans to reform the pension system. On Tuesday morning, firefighters gathered to demand more staff and resources. The...

The proportion of women in Austria’s government, the National Council and provincial governments decreased considerably between 2021 and 2022, the Institute for Parliamentarism and Democracy has found. From 2021 to 2022, Austria saw women’s representation in top political positions dropping...

The French took to the streets in record numbers on Tuesday to protest the controversial pensions reform for the sixth time since January, with energy sector players promising a ‘hellish’ week for the government as it is set on cutting...

One in five women over 65 in Germany is at acute risk of poverty, Germany’s Statistics Agency warned on Tuesday ahead of International Women’s Day, meaning that the gap between men’s and women’s pensions, just like the one for wages,...

The UK has set out plans to prevent small boats carrying potential migrants and asylum seekers and forcibly return them in a new bill denounced as ‘illegal and inhumane’ by advocacy groups. Unveiling the government’s Illegal Migration Bill to UK...