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Polish President Andrzej Duda and Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, jointly commemorated the 80th anniversary of the 1943 UPA massacre in Volhynia, when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) members massacred thousands of Poles, a longtime bone of contention between Warsaw and...

Spanish acting Prime Minister and Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez will face centre-right opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo in their first TV debate on Monday night in a highly polarised political campaign, two weeks before the country’s general elections. The dialectical...

Key politicians of Austria’s government coalition have traded barbs in the press, with Vice-Chancellor Wern Kogler of the co-ruling Greens accusing the centre-right ÖVP of adopting pre-facist terminology, with high-level members of the conservatives firing back, calling his comments careless....

Scientists and academic researchers will be able to reapply to the European Research Council (ERC) for grants if the UK rejoins Horizon Europe, according to reports on Sunday. It is now confirmed that scientists and researchers will be able to...

The idea of now former prime minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) taking the reins of a new government after the former one collapsed under his helm does not bode well with about 72% of Dutch people, a recent survey has found....

Ministers of Health and Environment of the WHO European Region recognised the need for further action to fight climate change that affects human health by signing the Budapest declaration on Friday (7 July). Lawmakers recognised their alarm “by the substantial...

Comments by a British MP Alicia Kearns have caused controversy in Kosovo, leading to Serbian President Aleksander Vucic threatening an investigation into her and calls from British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for both sides to defuse tensions. Kearns, chair of...

Albania is set to reach the target of spending 2% of the GDP on defence, as required by NATO, by 2024, according to Prime Minister Edi Rama, who spoke ahead of the alliance’s Vilnius Summit set to take place on...

Prosecutor General Maroš Žilinka, involved in high-level corruption cases, will not bow to the EU Commission’s ‘pressure’ or ‘doubt’ after the recent Rule of Law report that mentioned limiting his power to overrule the decisions of subordinate prosecutors. The fourth...

The pro-European majority Bulgarian parliament rejected the pro-Russian radical Vazrazhdane party’s proposal for a referendum on a 20-year postponement of Bulgaria’s membership in the Eurozone on Friday, but the issue will now be referred to the Constitutional Court. The Vazrazhdane...

Rumours are swirling from sources within the government that the Italian judiciary is trying to bring down the Italian government, as several leading figures in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government are under investigation. Currently, there are three highly publicised cases:...

The head of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, wants to put the fight against the far-right AfD at the centre of the EU election campaign next year, calling them the main enemy. While Weber has entertained the...

The European Parliament will adopt the EU nature restoration law on Wednesday despite the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) attempt to boycott it, Tiemo Wölken, a leading lawmaker of the socialist S&D group, told EURACTIV in an interview, adding the...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is pressing the department responsible for rubber-stamping the deadlocked third tranche of the post-COVID recovery fund to Italy, whose leadership will be pivotal to her re-election, EURACTIV has learned from several sources.

Europe is facing a Chinese electric vehicles tsunami following the ban on the sale of petrol and diesel-powered combustion engine cars from 2035, Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard said at an economic conference on Saturday, adding that competition from China exposes EU vulnerabilities in the all-electric market.

US President Joe Biden will look to deepen his relationships with King Charles and British Prime Minster Rishi Sunak during separate meetings on Monday (10 July) in which Ukraine and climate change are expected to dominate the agenda.

The Libyan coastguard fired multiple times while two boats of the NGO SOS Mediterranée were conducting a rescue of eleven people in distress in international waters on Friday (7 July).

Environment and health groups are pushing for more robust measures to protect EU citizens’ fundamental right to health and clean air, in a joint letter sent to MEPs on Thursday (6 July). 

The European Union’s nature restoration law may not be perfect and will touch the lives of millions of people, including farmers, fishers and foresters. But we should not let this become an excuse to give up and kill it next week, as some are suggesting, writes Paul Polman.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought home from Turkey on Saturday (8 July) five former commanders of Ukraine’s garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year. Russia immediately denounced the release. Kremlin...