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President Aleksandar Vučić has called all opposition parties to brief them about the latest European plan for Serbia and Kosovo, amid growing pressure from the EU on Belgrade to acknowledge the sovereignty of its former province if it wants to...

Parliament endorsed nine ministers in the government of Prime Minister Robert Golob on Tuesday, completing a reshuffle that Golob intended since the start of his term but was thwarted in past months. The government will now have twenty ministers, of...

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Tuesday (24 January) said he would set 2 April as the date for the country's fifth parliamentary election within two years after inconclusive October polls failed to produce a working government.

Adopting an additional tax provided in the European Commission’s guidelines on windfall taxes would cripple Eustream and significantly jeopardise the gas transit system that runs through Slovakia, Economy Minister Karel Hirman said.

European Union institutions are not always willing to adopt a long-term vision, Associate Director of European Policy Centre Elizabeth Kuiper told EURACTIV.cz in an interview where she reflected on the takeaways of last year’s Conference on the Future of Europe....

A man suspected of threatening to kill Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was detained by the Judicial Police in Lisbon on Tuesday, a source confirmed to Lusa. In October, Rebelo de Sousa received death threats in a letter sent...

Parliament gave its final approval on Tuesday to a fresh anti-inflation package the government presented in the form of a decree to help mitigate the impact of high energy prices on food products.

At the core of the European Parliament’s position is a legal presumption that most if not all of the 28 million platform workers throughout Europe, even those currently working independently – genuinely and out of free choice - would automatically be presumed to be ‘employees’. This presumption is theoretically rebuttable, but by providing no sharp-edged guidance or criteria, it is impossible in practice, and would lead to further disharmonisation.

The European Union should urgently develop a new vision about the Western Balkans and have enlargement among its priorities, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday. Meloni spoke in a video message during a conference in Trieste dubbed “Italy...

Comments from Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto that Finland could pursue NATO membership without its partner Sweden after Turkey said it would not support Stockholm’s bid, has ruffled many feathers in Sweden and Finland. Finland and Sweden, who have sought...

The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers hid at least 20 violent incidents targeting minor asylum seekers from the Health Ministry, the NRC daily reported. Reserved for asylum seekers who cause “nuisance” at regular asylum centres, the centre...

Belgian authorities should “do everything” they possibly can to end the “serious violations of fundamental rights” aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele has been subjected to in Iran, some 60 academics and legal experts wrote in an open letter. Earlier this month,...

Austria is on its way to recovering from the economic crisis that was triggered by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the Federation of Austrian Industries said. Producer prices have exceeded their upper turning point, which indicates a gradual...

After weeks of mounting pressure, Chancellor Olaf Scholz paved the way on Tuesday for modern Leopard 2 tanks to be delivered to Ukraine, whether from Germany or any other country, multiple media reported. The decision dropped after the US was...

The former head of the country’s investment agency and current member of the supervisory board of the state-owned Bulgarian Development Bank, Stamen Yanev, is being investigated by the country’s prosecution for his involvement in the “golden passport” scheme. The controversial...

Sweden, which currently holds the rotating EU Presidency, will launch an awareness campaign to discourage migrants from coming to the country, Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard and far-right Sweden Democrat leader in parliament Henrik Vinge said at a press conference....

The United States and Germany are poised to provide a significant boost to Kyiv's war effort with the delivery of heavy battle tanks to Ukraine, sources said, a move Moscow condemned as a "blatant provocation".

While the European elections of 2024 are beginning to make themselves felt at the European level, with the liberal EPP questioning the possibility of an alliance with the conservatives of the ECR group, its French component appears far from having...

The Commission is mulling over reconsidering the special suspension for all tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian agri-food exports over the coming weeks after complaints from member states that an influx of agricultural goods is putting EU farmers at a disadvantage.

The current antibiotic shortage remains a 'big alarm bell' for Europe but it does not require special measures as alternatives to cope with are available to member states, the  European Commission’s health policy ‘number-two’ said.