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The European Union-backed Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has been handshakes and photoshops and an opportunity was missed to present a better strategy and get more concrete results, according to Kosovo Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla. The EU-facilitated dialogue process, aiming to normalise relations...

Of the more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees who came to Germany to escape the war, 44% would like to stay in the country, according to a survey published on Wednesday (12 July).

Over 40% of 1.2 million voters said they would shift their vote to Partido Popular after watching the electoral debate between PP's leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Spain’s acting PM socialist leader Pedro Sánchez on Monday, according to a poll.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reiterated Italy’s commitment to supporting Ukraine with soldiers and weapons in addition to supporting Kyiv’s bid for NATO membership as soon as conditions allow, she said during the NATO summit in Vilnius on Wednesday. Meloni...

Sweden and Ukraine have committed to increased military cooperation by agreeing to share classified information and improve the delivery of defence equipment in the future, according to two agreements signed on Wednesday, ahead of Sweden’s formal accession to NATO. The...

Outgoing Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius will likely take over VVD leadership from former leader and prime minister Mark Rutte after she announced she was ready to take on party leadership and, if successful in the upcoming national elections, the prime...

The Dutch farmers’ association LTO hit the EU Parliament’s vote in favour of the EU Nature Restoration Law on Wednesday, warning that the law will only aggravate the country’s simmering nitrogen crisis. The Nature Restoration Law seeks to introduce binding...

MEPs dismissed the European Commission’s plans for a new EU Ethics Body as ‘unsatisfactory’ and ‘toothless’  in the latest row over transparency reforms following the Qatargate scandal.

Through policy action we can all play a part in turning the tide against the growing global health concern and burden of Alzheimer’s disease.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine in return for connecting a subsidiary of a Russian bank to the SWIFT system.

Ukraine today may be the East Asia of tomorrow – the Japan-EU partnership has strategic significance in the unprecedented and severe security situations we face, writes Fumio Kishida.

Protecting our planet means taking urgent action on building clean energy and supporting vibrant ecosystems. The two ambitions can be compatible, but this requires collaboration, writes Kate Wallace-Lockhart.

The Eindhoven-based chip plant Smart Photonics, specialising in producing photonic chips, will get a €100 million investment from a consortium of the Dutch government, banks and several semiconductor-producing companies, the group announced on Wednesday. The announcement comes just a day...

The NATO alliance should maintain the delicate balance between helping Kyiv and not getting involved in the war as this would risk the security of NATO and Ukraine, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said at the NATO summit in...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s official reception of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accused of powering the country’s authoritarian drift, has caused quite a stir among human rights activists despite the Élysée Palace’s talk of an inevitable partner. France will host...

Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies emerged as the winners in a 7 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind site auction in Germany worth €12.6 billion, highlighting the appeal of renewable assets across Europe.

Economic cooperation and the disputed South China Sea will be on the agenda when Southeast Asian foreign ministers meet their Chinese, Japanese and South Korean counterparts for ASEAN-plus-three talks on Thursday (13 July) in Indonesia.

Tobacco company Philipp Morris International has announced the construction of a new €27 million factory in western Ukraine that it expects to be operational by the beginning of 2024. The work for the new factory is expected to start this...

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Serbian Security and Information Agency (Bezbednosno informativna agencija, BIA) Director Aleksandar Vulin over corruption and destabilisation, but Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said it is his stance...

EU countries should provide asylum for Russian and Belarusian athletes who condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Dominik Hašek, a former hockey goalkeeper, said at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Hašek – hockey legend and Olympic champion – visited...