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The EU plans to double the number of Ukrainian troops it trains to 30,000, the bloc’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, announced on Thursday (2 February) as top EU officials were due to meet their Ukrainian government counterparts in Kyiv. “The...

In October 2022, the newly elected Parliament of Bulgaria (the 48th) begins its work in Sofia. In his Parliament inauguration’s speech, the President of the Republic, Mr. Rumen Radev, calls on the deputies to elect the next government, adopt the state budget and vote for the package of changes introduced by the interim government.

The European Commission is organising a stakeholder meeting to inform them of a proposal designed to tackle the online piracy of online events like sporting events and music concerts, according to details seen by EURACTIV.

The French National Assembly adopted a bill to accelerate the development of renewable energies on Tuesday (31 January), despite abstention from the Greens and opposition from the hard left, who denounced shortcomings and inconsistencies in the new law. 

The battle on the front lines in eastern Ukraine "has become tougher" as Russian forces push for gains that they could show on the first anniversary of their invasion on 24 February, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a sombre assessment on Wednesday (1 February).

Improved dialogue between Australia and the European Union is crucial to achieving global climate goals, according to Chris Bowen, Australia's minister for climate change and energy.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Finland passing a new transgender law, Bulgaria continuing to export fuels from Russian oil to Ukraine, and so much more.

This week on the Beyond the Byline podcast we discuss top EU leaders travelling to Ukraine to hold talks with a candidate country,  for the first time ever in an active war zone. Almost a year after Ukraine’s invasion by...

The Greek socialist party (Pasok) refuted assumptions by the main opposition Syriza party that the conservative government is blackmailing its leader Nikos Androulakis through a wiretapping scandal to influence post-election coalition talks, Pasok sources told EURACTIV.com. The scandal erupted last...

On Wednesday (1 February), Margrethe Vestager presented a new framework for state aid that will allow member states to subsidise more companies for longer, while also warning that such subsidies were a threat to the integrity of the single market.

CITA welcomes the introduction of Euro 7/VII as a key element of the EU clean air policy. However, integrating PTI as an independent lifetime compliance measure for each individual vehicle could be even stronger.

More than a dozen top EU officials are set to arrive in Kyiv on Thursday (2 February) with promises of more military, financial and political aid, a symbolic trip meant to highlight support for Ukraine as the first anniversary of Russia's invasion approaches.

Hungarian President Katalin Novák travelled to Italy to meet with government leaders, where she spoke of the similarities between both countries in their actions against irregular immigration, enlargement to the Western Balkans, and family values. Novák visited Rome to meet the...

Hundreds of illegally placed CCTV cameras have been removed from public areas by Albanian authorities over the last two weeks, in a crackdown on organised criminal groups which placed them there to monitor police and gang movements. It has been...

The export of petroleum products from Russian oil to Ukraine will continue after 5 February, when the government derogation was due to expire, the Bulgarian government said in a statement on Wednesday.

US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy are likely to visit Poland later this month, as Zelenskyy wants to present his 10-point peace plan, according to Polish media. Biden and Zelenskyy’s plans haven’t been confirmed yet, but...

At the meeting with former prime minister Robert Fico who is currently leading the disinformation scene in Slovakia, ambassadors expressed their concerns about his party´s foreign policy orientation. The ambassadors of EU Member States, the United Kingdom and the United...

The Czech Republic is finalising its application to the tender for the construction of Volkswagen’s gigafactory – a facility that produces batteries for electric vehicles on a large scale –  but the government faces resistance from local communities, including surrounding...

The Hungarian government believes that Russia will win the war against Ukraine and therefore avoids sanctions against Moscow, Hungarian politician and former MEP Benedek Jávor told EURACTIV Poland in an interview, adding that Budapest silently hopes there will be a...

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa warned that the public’s current sympathy towards teachers on strike may turn bitter as the first day of strikes began on Wednesday and minimum services were required in impacted government-run schools. “A time when the...