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A key summit was held in Rabat on Wednesday to normalise the bilateral relations between both nations, which had many shared challenges on the agenda, including how to deal with migration flows. Spain’s socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and several...

The government has agreed to increase the minimum wage by 8% after more than a month of negotiations with trade unions CC.OO and UGT, but without the support of the main employers’ association, CEOE. The left-wing government will increase the...

Finland has passed a new gender recognition law granting the right to legally change gender through the process of self-declaration, removing the need to go through a medical and psychiatric approval process first. The new law was approved by 113...

Belgium played a key role in supplying energy to its main neighbours in 2022, as it was France’s largest electricity supplier and Germany’s main transit country for natural gas.

Ukraine will receive additional aid and support of various kinds, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen said during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Wednesday. Van der Bellen arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday...

A group of politicians across the globe are urging the EU to enforce sanctions on ten individuals for supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine – including US actor Steven Seagal. The US-Europe Sanctions Coalition was formed in the autumn of...

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, spoke on Wednesday to the media about international pressure to accept the Association of Serb Municipalities, a provision signed in 2013 that the Constitutional Court has since ruled against, stating a mono-ethnic structure...

Sweden will not compromise on freedom of expression or rule of law, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said on Wednesday in response to Turkey’s Erdogan’s continuing demands and condemnations. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier this week that as long...

The Hungarian banking group OTP received clearance from the Slovenian market regulator to take over NKBM, Slovenia’s second-largest bank, making OTP the largest player in the local banking market. The all-clear from the Slovenian Competition Protection Agency comes after OTP...

Veteran socialist MEP Udo Bullmann will become the European Parliament’s chief spokesperson on human rights as part of the fallout from the Qatargate scandal.

Luc Michel, a 65 year old self-described ‘Stalinist’ whose resume includes founding a Belgian version of the National Front, has been revealed as the unlikely source of an elaborate network of fake news websites designed to spread pro-Russian propaganda across Africa. 

Ukraine on Wednesday (1 February) expanded a corruption clampdown with coordinated searches of residences linked to a high-profile oligarch and former interior minister and tax offices in the capital, in what the authorities called a wartime anti-graft purge. The move...

The presentation of the EU's green industry plan on Wednesday (1 February) brought cautious relief in Germany - although some of its points may lead to disputes within the country's traffic light coalition.

A third of heat-related deaths in Europe could have been prevented by increasing tree coverage by 30%, a study found, putting an exact number of the impact that green urban planning can have on citizens. 

In a joint statement published on Wednesday (1 February), 30 trade associations urged the Data Act's co-legislators to avoid ‘a leap into the unknown’ with the new law.

While it is unlikely that Ukraine will join the EU any time soon, the bloc's evident strategy is that of de-facto integration.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the Green Deal Industrial Plan on Wednesday (1 February) in an effort by the EU to keep up with a worldwide race in subsidy schemes for green industries.

Germany's agriculture ministry is not doing enough to restructure animal husbandry and relies too much on possible EU-level steps, Socialist agriculture lawmakers wrote in a joint paper released Tuesday (31 January).

The Commission made some false or contradictory statements in promoting the initiative to combat Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), according to researchers at TU Delft, a leading Dutch technical university.

EU agriculture ministers have reiterated their call on the European Commission to revise legislation on the labelling of honey blends and protect producers and consumers when choosing the honey of their liking.