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The Romanian government’s fiscal reform package, which aims to combat tax evasion and create a fairer tax system, was rushed through parliament without amendment or debate on Tuesday night but has not gone down well with the business community. The...

A video showing the vice-leader of the Serbian List party in north Kosovo, Milan Radoicic, among the group of individuals who carried out a terrorist attack on Sunday has been published by Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla. Serbian List is a...

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić demanded that KFOR take over responsibility for all security matters in northern Kosovo instead of the country’s national police during a meeting with the ambassadors of the Quint countries and the Head of the EU...

The intention of newly elected chief of the main opposition Syriza party (EU Left) to push forward the legalisation of same-sex marriagewas a wake-up call for the conservative government to speed up its LGBTIQ agenda.

Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was shown on Russian state television on Tuesday (26 September) attending a defence leaders' meeting remotely, a day after Ukrainian special forces said they had killed him.

Insufficient public investment in Slovakia, which has averaged €1.2 billion less per year than its neighbours over the past five years, has led to investment debt of over €40 billion, equivalent to the cost of building three new hospitals or...

Four years after it was presented, the European Green Deal has failed to lead EU countries towards innovation and economic transformation, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS, ECR) said on Tuesday (26 September).

In the quest for a greener and more sustainable future, the maritime industry has found itself at the forefront of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The European Union’s FuelEU Maritime regulation and the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) decarbonisation...

The central government in Madrid must commit to a self-determination referendum for Catalonia and approve an amnesty law for those involved in the 2017 secessionist attempt, said regional Prime Minister Pere Aragonès on Tuesday. In a speech at the seat...

Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s migration speech in Washington on Tuesday – where she spoke about how laws have morphed from helping those fleeing persecution to those fearing bias elicited criticism from the Labour Party. Braverman called for a reform of...

The lawsuit by young Portuguese people against 32 states, which was filed at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), could force Europe to act urgently against the climate crisis, according to Zero, an environmental association.

In drafting its 2024 budget bill, due to be presented on Wednesday (27 September), France is walking a tightrope between lowering debt levels and keeping the necessary fiscal room for large-scale green investments – mirroring ongoing EU-level debates over new fiscal rules.

The outgoing cabinet’s decision to grant a ‘nature permit’ to the country’s largest airport, Schiphol, which would allow it to schedule at least 440,000 flights per year, sparked outrage among climate groups, farmer representatives, and lawmakers on Tuesday (26 September).

Austria will continue to stand behind Ukraine and support the war-torn country on its path to join the EU despite Austria’s tradition of neutrality, the President of the Austrian parliament, Wolfgang Sobotka, said during a speech in Kyiv on Tuesday....

France needs more support to help preserve Armenia’s territorial integrity and protect the displaced populations of Nagorno-Karabakh, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told lawmakers as she announced several international initiatives on Tuesday (26 September).

The speaker of Canada's House of Commons lower chamber on Tuesday (26 September) said he would quit, a few days after he publicly praised a former Nazi soldier in Parliament in an incident that Russia said helped justify its war on Ukraine.

Erdogan’s surprising statement comes days after a corruption scandal involving a senior US senator - who has been opposing selling F-16 jet fighters to Turkey – erupted.

Bulgaria will not play hardball with Austria and the Netherlands, which are blocking its accession to Schengen, but will try soft diplomacy and political pressure in Brussels to overcome the veto, several sources in Sofia told Euractiv. The Bulgarian government...

Education and Science Minister Przemysław Czarnek wants the country’s national remembrance institution to investigate whether there is a basis for a Ukrainian nazi – who controversially received a standing ovation during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the Canadian parliament...

Former Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat misled the EU Commission over the previously hidden Security of Supply Agreement signed by his former energy minister Konrad Mizzi and Azerbaijan’s state energy company, Socar.