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Ministers in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government called to protect civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli, and suggested Israel target Hamas headquarter instead of civilians who have no fault in the situation. Speaking on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council...

Spain has seen the sharpest rise in anti-Semitism recently following the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian war in early October, Isaac Benzaquén, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, told the acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday. In...

Existing tools to address water challenges remain fragmented across EU policies, despite the water stress that is intensifying across Europe because of climate change. Establishing water as a standalone strategic priority on a par with the EU Green Deal has now become a must, writes Pietro Francesco De Lotto.

France is calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to allow aid to reach civilians, particularly in Gaza, a move French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has said will lead to a truce ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s visit...

Lukoil’s refinery in Bulgaria promised Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov to pay almost twice as much tax to the state after the Bulgarian parliament threatened to ban Russian crude oil imports by sea, DPS parliamentary group leader Delyan Peevski (Renew)...

Reducing the working week is the main obstacle to a quick government agreement between the left-wing Sumar platform and the Socialist Party of acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the progressive party’s spokesman Ernest Urtasun warned on Monday. At a press...

Medicines that can be bought without a prescription to treat blocked noses pose a rare but very serious risk to users, the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) said on Monday as cold and...

The three opposition parties likely to unseat Poland’s current ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party could be disrupted by a list of demands from farmers’ unions, known as the ‘Agricultural Twelve’. The Agricultural Twelve, a list of twelve demands to...

The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Iran, their first talks since Azerbaijan secured control over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with Russia saying the main issue had been resolved pending further work on a peace treaty.

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Tel Aviv on Tuesday (24 October) for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Paris tries to define the role French diplomacy can play in the conflict.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan submitted a bill to the national parliament on Monday (23 October), approving Sweden’s application to join NATO, leaving only Hungary standing in the way of Stockholm’s final accession. The Protocol on Sweden’s NATO Accession was...

The EU lawmakers spearheading the work on the EU’s AI bill have circulated a new version of the provisions regarding the classification of high-risk AI systems, maintaining the filter-based approach despite a contrary legal opinion.

An influential German leftist politician launched a new populist movement on Monday (23 October), hoping for European election success next June on a platform opposing EU integration and in favour of cheap Russian energy.

All major political groups are expected to get behind amendments requiring the adoption of cybersecurity certification schemes to be rubberstamped by the European Parliament.

EU foreign ministers on Monday (23 October) edged towards endorsing a "humanitarian pause" in the Israel-Hamas war, though some member states have signalled reservations towards the idea.

Isn’t it humiliating? Armenia and Azerbaijan, two countries for which the EU has invested a lot, accepted Iranian mediation for peace talks, without participation of Western countries, but instead with the presence of Russia and Turkey at the Tehran table.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee will vote on their approach to new rules tackling packaging waste on Tuesday (24 October) amid warnings from environmental groups that the law risks being watered down due to a concerted pushback from Italian MEPs.

Contrary to other EU countries, the Czech Republic is succeeding in the implementation of screening programmes in the fight against cancer, but Prague is still facing a scarcity of availability of innovative drugs.

The Netherlands has identified 11 medical conditions, including anxiety, stroke, and breast cancer, with a possible gap in developing drugs, according to a report commissioned by the government which called for better collaboration between the industry and academia.

The EU Council on Monday (23 October) formally adopted the directive to step up the protection of workers from health risks related to asbestos, the final stage in the legislative process for the file.