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Ukraine is ready to accept temporary trade restrictions with the EU provided the bloc imposes a ban on Russian grain imports, Ukrainian Trade Minister Taras Kachka told the Financial Times.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi lashed out against the US, criticised the EU and praised his country's partnership with Russia on Thursday (7 March), in a wide-ranging press conference where he called the war in Gaza a "disgrace for civilisation".

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez accepted changes to the text of the controversial amnesty bill on Wednesday - the latest version of which is almost certain to be approved on Thursday - to satisfy the Catalan separatists who remain key to the government’s stability.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies will launch a major inquiry into how nuclear energy could help Italy reach its energy transition goals, a significant step as the country remains the only G7 nation not operating nuclear power stations, having shut down the last plant over 30 years ago.

Radical-left La France Insoumise (LFI, GUE/NGL) unveiled its EU election list on Wednesday, and although it remains incomplete and has yet to be voted on by party members, it includes all outgoing MEPs as well as some new faces.

In a lasting dispute over asylum policy between the German federal states and the government, the states have now made demands to proceed with outsourcing asylum applications to third countries, setting a deadline for the government.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has dismissed Czechia’s decision to suspend intergovernmental consultations due to Bratislava’s apparent pro-Russian stances by claiming they ‘just want peace’ while accusing Prague of having an ‘interest’ in supporting the war in Ukraine. Czech Prime...

A top US sanctions official will visit Austrian authorities as well as Raiffeisen Bank International on 7-8 March, the US embassy to Austria said on Wednesday (6 March), ratcheting up pressure on the biggest Western bank in Russia.

National centre-right parties used the European People’s Party’s (EPP) congress on Wednesday (6 March) as a platform to air grievances on national issues and rebel against the party line, as many feel the squeeze of home voters' swing to the far-right.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is set to visit Cyprus this week for talks on a maritime aid corridor from the island to Gaza, officials said Wednesday (6 April).

Italian centre-right party Forza Italia wants right-wing Prime Minister Georgia Meloni’s party joining the European People’s Party (EPP) to strengthen Italy’s influence in the European Parliament, MEP Salvatore De Meo told Euractiv. 

Concerns about a defeat in the EU election are looming large for the German government, which is currently facing a decline in the polls and internal discord, while the conservatives are actively preparing for its collapse.

The European Parliament Trade Committee will vote tomorrow (7 March) whether to add new limits to trade benefits to Kyiv to appease EU farmers, or to approve the new rules with no changes to speed up their adoption in help of the country in war.

In a fresh nod to EU farmers who have been protesting across the bloc for weeks, the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council included a political message in support of farmers in its draft compromise on the controversial EU corporate due diligence law, seen by Euractiv.

The European Union is poised to agree on a joint exit from a controversial energy investment protection agreement that activists say is a roadblock on the bloc’s path to climate neutrality.

“No one,” Plato’s Socrates once famously declared, “who either knows or believes that there is another course of action, better than the one he is following, will ever continue on his present course.”

France is preparing to regain its and Europe's food sovereignty, Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau told Parliament's National Defence Committee on Tuesday (5 March), stressing that food has become "a weapon" and the EU must "overcome its naivety".

French President Emmanuel Macron lobbied at a Franco-Czech Energy Forum in Prague on Tuesday (5 March) for the state-owned energy giant EDF's bid to build new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic.

Eurelectric, a Europe-wide electricity trade association, released a report today (6 March) calling for data sharing between car manufacturers, electricity grid operators, electric vehicle charge point operators (CPOs) and consumers to facilitate wider adoption of electric vehicles.

The EU's new defence industrial strategy and subsidy programme are set to face tough negotiations with the bloc's member states and the European Parliament over the next few months.