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Ten EU citizens are on the US sanctions list under The Global Magnitsky Act, eight of whom are Bulgarians, yet, over the past few years, Hungary has overtaken Bulgaria in most international corruption rankings, with countries such as Romania, Greece,...

The European Union must take ‘concrete responsibility’ in dealing with migration, President Sergio Mattarella said in an official statement after at least 59 migrants, including children, died in a shipwreck off southern Italy. The boat travelling from Turkey to the...

The United States warned China of serious consequences were it to provide arms to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while French President Emmanuel Macron said he would visit Beijing in April. Washington and its NATO allies are scrambling to dissuade China from...

Promising results from a four-day workweek trial in the UK revived the debate in Finland ahead of the April elections. In the UK pilot promoted by 4 Day Week Global, nearly 3000 employees in 61 companies trialed a 32-hour working...

European politicians are treating Hungary with “unnecessary slick correctness”, EU Commission’s Vice-President Věra Jourová said during a public debate on Friday. For the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Café Evropa, a platform that aims to make EU topics...

Estonian voters will head to the polls this Sunday to elect their new national parliament amidst Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an event of particular significance the country given its shared border with Russia and sizeable Russian-speaking minority. Polls show that...

Serbia and Kosovo are expected to endorse a deal to normalise strained relations as at a high-level meeting in Brussels later on Monday (27 February), despite efforts from Russia to meddle in the process, according to a senior EU official.

The prospect of a deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland appeared tantalisingly close Sunday (26 February) as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen announced they were to meet in the UK "for final talks".

Russia has halted supplies of oil to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline, PKN Orlen's CEO said on Saturday (25 February), adding that the Polish refiner would tap other sources to plug the gap.

Germany is sticking to the compromise on phasing out internal combustion engines for cars and vans by 2035 despite recent critical voices, especially from the ranks of the Italian government. “Germany already gave its final approval to the trilogue result,...

G20 finance chiefs have been unable to reach a consensus on describing the war in Ukraine and are likely to end a meeting in India on Saturday (25 February) without a joint communique, delegates said.

Fifteen EU states on the migration front line on Friday (24 February) called for stronger borders and agreements to be struck with third-party countries to accept migrants.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its second year, coal mining towns are not only on the front line of our country’s resistance but also at the heart of our vision to rebuild a fairer, safer and greener Ukraine, writes Anna Ackermann. 

The European Union, after hectic last-minute haggling, has approved a tenth package of Russia sanctions on the anniversary of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the Swedish EU presidency said late on Friday (24 February).

National legislation concerning the promotion of electronic cigarettes would be more effective than an EU-wide framework, Swedish conservative EU lawmaker Johan Nissinen told EURACTIV in an interview.

The Financial Action Taskforce (FATF), the international anti-money laundering watchdog, suspended Russia’s membership with immediate effect on Friday (24 February) due to the country's attack on the “security, safety and integrity of the global financial system”.

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine one year ago, the European Commission has slowly started filling the political leadership vacuum increasingly left by the bloc's member states.

As the EU prepares to table legislation to make it simpler to book long-distance journeys across the bloc, a fierce debate has broken out between rail companies and independent booking platforms over the provision of data.

I woke up at 3:46 o’clock on Thursday morning a year ago, when many of us were buzzed out of our sleep by our phones and the realisation that war had broken out on the European continent.

Swede’s dreams are made of … what? Well, not agriculture, if the past couple of months is anything to go by.