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Revelations that members of Germany's far-right AfD party secretly met with extremist neo-Nazis and businessmen in a hotel in November have sparked fresh calls for the party to be thrown out of parliament at a time it is polling higher than any of the governing parties at 22%.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on partners to provide decisive political and military support during a visit Thursday (11 January) to his staunch Baltic allies, as other backers waver on aid.

Europe’s last generation rocket launcher Ariane6’s first flight is planned for the summer, the European Space Agency’s boss said on Thursday (11 January), after almost three years of delay, giving the continent hope for newfound access to space.

The United States and Britain launched strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the movement's attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a dramatic regional widening of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Czech and Polish laws do not allow citizens of other EU countries to join Czech or Polish political parties, violating EU electoral law, according to the EU’s Court of Justice Advocate General Jean Richard de La Tour.

A non-binding opinion of Polish advocate general Maciej Szpunar to the Court of Justice of the EU suggests reaffirming the country of origin principle on joined cases of the short-term rental industry.

While Brussels has been working to solve the Hungarian blockade since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán vetoed the EU's Ukraine aid package in December, the bloc's officials now have prepared a potential compromise in exchange for dropping his veto. 

Stéphane Séjourné, Emmanuel Macron’s top man in the European Parliament and Renew Group’s President, was appointed Foreign Affairs minister on Thursday (11 January), leaving a question mark as to who will lead Macron’s party in the EU elections.

The new French government was unveiled on Thursday afternoon (11 January), with most political heavyweights still in, while the right makes a grand entry with two conservative ministers in top jobs and Renew lead Stéphane Séjourné becomes foreign minister.

Political groups in the European Parliament will try to reach a deal on gene editing next Tuesday (16 January), while experts in the Council seek to untangle the controversial points of the legislation and NGOs protest in Brussels.

Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency, the CEO and president of Norwegian chemical company Yara warned.

The European Commission wants to invest in the development of key technologies for next-generation conventional warfare, especially involving artificial intelligence in autonomous and unmanned systems, according to an internal draft document, seen by Euractiv.

Contrary to usual practice, the EU Court of Justice overturned the advice of its Advocate General, whose legal reasoning had backed NGOs calling for restricting the flexibility for ministers in the EU's annual regulation on fishing quotas.

The outgoing EU executive has had mixed results in its drive to become a 'geopolitical Commission'. The next one should be prepared to find better and faster answers to an increasingly fragmented world.

The director of French farming union FNSEA backed the ongoing farmer protests across the border in Germany, adding that while the root causes of the protests are the same, the particulars of the disputes differ across the countries' borders.

EU lawmakers agreed on Thursday (11 January) on their position for the first EU-wide Disability Card that aims to guarantee a minimum standard of support for persons with disabilities across Europe. 

In 2024, the contradiction between electoral campaigns and the reality on migration will become increasingly evident.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is forecasting a 61% share for renewable electricity in Europe by 2028, partly due to an unprecedented surge of previously unforeseen solar panel installations.

The EU should invest upfront into the bloc's defence industry production capacity as a means to de-risk their investments, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton told a group of international media, including Euractiv, on Thursday (11 January).

The majority of European drivers purchasing a used car are foregoing second-hand electric vehicles (EVs) in favour of their combustion engine equivalent, car dealers suggest - a development set to undermine the EU goal of cutting road transport emissions.