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The 10.5 million strong population of Czechia hosts the most Ukrainian refugees with temporary protection status per population among European Union nations, Eurostat data shows. By the end of last year, there were over 3.5 million Ukrainian refugees with temporary...

US Congress greenlighted the sale of almost 500 HIMARS artillery rocket systems to Poland, said Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak on Thursday. The M142 HIMARS is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the US Army...

Lisbon city council on Thursday proposed to include municipal neighbourhoods in the Lisbon local housing strategy, thus allowing the application of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) in their rehabilitation. The announcement was made by the mayor of...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pledged Spain’s support for Ukraine for ‘as long as necessary’ during his second trip to the country since the start of the Russian invasion on Thursday. Sánchez spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the eve...

The war in Ukraine entered its second year with no end in sight and Russia isolated at the United Nations in a vote demanding its forces withdraw, while G7 leaders are set to coordinate more support for Ukraine.

The Swedish government could soon send Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine as Defence Minister Pål Jonson announced he was open to the idea on Thursday following political agreement in parliament. Sending tanks would send a strong signal as a complementary contribution,...

Finland will hand over three Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine in a new military aid package, Defence Minister Mikko Savola (Center) announced in a press meeting on Thursday. As part of the package, Finland will send Leopard 2 de-mining tanks...

Greek lawyer Spyros Pappas has filed an appeal to the General Court of the EU against the European Public Prosecutor's decision to request the lifting of the immunity of MEP Eva Kaili, claiming that it was illegal because none of the conditions for such a move were met. 

The European Union played a positive role in addressing global challenges, upholding peace and security in the Western Balkans, and supporting Ukraine, said the UK’s UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council briefing on EU-UN Cooperation on Thursday. “We...

Far-right leader Herbert Kickl’s verbal attack on President Alexander Van der Bellen at the traditional “political Ash Wednesday”, where politicians have carte blanche to publicly criticise eachother, has sparked widespread outrage among Austria’s political parties. In Germany, Political Ash Wednesday...

French taxpayers may have to fork out €14.6 billion in unpaid taxes, according to the tax authorities fraud assessment for 2022, the Public Accounts Ministry reported on Thursday. In their assessment for 2022, tax authorities lay out the sums they...

Francesco Giorgi, the partner of European Parliament former vice president Eva Kaili, has been freed from jail but will wear an electronic bracelet, according to a press release by the Belgian prosecution. This development prompted a negative reaction from Kaili.

The Special Envoy of the European Union for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajçak, said he expects Belgrade and Pristina to accept the European proposal, backed by France and Germany, for the normalisation of relations with Kosovo at the meeting in...

Bulgaria may join the Eurozone on 1 January 2025, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said in Sofia on Thursday, postponing Bulgaria’s initial plan to join the group in 2024. Three years ago, Bulgaria set the goal of joining the...

Emilia-Romagna Governor Stefano Bonaccini and his former deputy, leftwing MP and former MEP Elly Schlein are through to the primaries for the election of the new leader of Italy’s leading centre-left force, the Democratic party (PD), with the vote scheduled...

It would not be wise for Ukraine to attack Russian territory with weapons it received from the West should it successfully push out Russian forces, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday, as many Germans increasingly fear this scenario may...

UK universities and researchers are among those waiting most anxiously for the long-awaited compromise agreement on the Northern Ireland protocol in order to finally unlock access to billions of euros of EU Horizon Europe funding. 

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the one-year mark with no end in sight, there are hints at how the outcome of the war could transform the global order. What lessons did European policymakers learn from the first year...

The current phase of the war in Ukraine, one year after Russia started its brutal aggression, is reminiscent of the entrenched phase of World War I when hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides dies in muddy trenches of Flanders and France, fighting to conquer only a few metres.

A question mark hangs over the timeline of the sustainable use of pesticides regulation (SUR) after a leaked letter showed agriculture MEPs are dragging their feet on the crucial file, leading Commission officials to accuse them of deliberately blocking progress on the regulation.