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Serbia and China signed several bilateral agreements to strengthen their cooperation on Tuesday, the most important being the free trade agreement, according to which customs duties will no longer apply to Serb and Chinese products from when the agreement comes...

Poland is unlikely to go back to the polls for a snap election even if the opposition’s ability to form a new government is currently uncertain, Olgierd Annusiewicz, a political analyst at Warsaw University, told Euractiv.pl. The EU and many...

A new national pharmaceutical policy focused on steady rules is a necessity, Greek Health Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis recently said as new data showed an increasingly positive economic impact of the sector in the country’s GDP.

More and more innovative drugs and biomarkers for cancer are being developed, which is why the coordinator of the OncoLAB Advisory Board, Dr. Ana Rodríguez Cala, assures that “we need to hurry up” to introduce the new treatments into the...

The Netherlands will provide an additional €10 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza, outgoing Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher (VVD/Renew) announced in a letter to parliament on Tuesday, despite earlier statements indicating that no extra funds would be made available....

Austria will introduce stationary controls at the Czech border on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry told APA on Thursday, marking another of Austria’s moves to combat the influx of irregular migrants. The move comes after Germany announced border...

The wording of a speech given by French President Emmanuel Macron caused quite a stir in Albania and Kosovo as part of it appeared to get lost in translation and led to fears he had unilaterally suspended Kosovo’s long-awaited visa...

The radical left party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is again in hot water following the controversial remarks of its MP Danièle Obono, who has been accused of “justifying terrorism”. Asked on Sud Radio whether Hamas was a “resistance movement”, Obono of...

Leader of the left-wing Podemos party Ione Belarra reiterated her condemnation of Israel for its military reprisals in Gaza on Thursday, just hours after the Israeli embassy in Madrid issued a statement accusing some Spanish government members of making “immoral...

EU leaders on Tuesday (17 October) sought to gloss over their previously contradictory messaging on the Israel-Hamas war as they met for extraordinary talks on the situation in the Middle East. The extraordinary summit had been called after fears that an...

The roster of EU environment ministers could soon include Rudolf Huliak, a man nominated by the Slovak National Party who believes the elite invented climate change to take away people’s cars.

Israel will not be participating in Lisbon’s Web Summit following statements by its co-founder, Paddy Cosgrave, who accused Israelis of committing war crimes in their fight against Hamas, Israel’s Ambassador to Portugal, Dor Shapira, revealed on Monday. Shapira said that...

The EU bloc should tighten border controls and internal security, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in response to Monday’s terrorist attack in Brussels, in which a gunman claiming allegiance to IS shot dead two Swedes, presumably in response to...

Moving the Czech embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as the US did with its embassy in Israel in 2018, is an idea supported by Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS, ECR) but not by the government’s coalition partners. Czechia is...

The emerging CO2 storage market in Europe is becoming increasingly controlled by a North Sea monopoly, putting at risk the decarbonisation of Southern and Eastern Europe, write Eadbhard Pernot, Martin Birk Rasmussen and Lina Strandvåg Nagell.

A Baltic Sea telecom cable connecting Sweden and Estonia was damaged at roughly the same time as a Finnish-Estonian gas pipeline and cable were earlier this month, but remains operational, Sweden's civil defence minister said on Tuesday (17 October).

The European Union and some of its member states fail to integrate air quality considerations into their national climate plans and do not recognise the impact of air pollution on health, a study published by the Global Climate and Health Alliance showed.

The EU approach to powerful AI models is taking shape as European countries discuss possible concessions in the upcoming negotiations on the world’s first comprehensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) rulebook.

The European Parliament secretariat has prepared a ‘reflection paper’ - exclusively seen by Euractiv - addressed to political groups with concrete examples on how to reshape the Parliament’s committees in the next legislative mandate.

Human rights lawyer Maxwell Atuhura and environmental activist Nick Omonuk have called on EU lawmakers to decide on a strong due diligence law so that they have an avenue to justice that is barred to them in Uganda.