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NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg defended a NATO information campaign that is meant to raise support for Ukraine in Slovakia after former prime minister and poll leader Robert Fico criticised it, saying it would be a direct interference in the election...

Environment and Climate Action Minister Duarte Cordeiro highlighted the now more than €450 million ongoing investments in the forest area, including fire prevention, at a regular hearing in the parliamentary committee on agriculture and fisheries Wednesday.

Migration, energy and trade were all discussed between the Libyan government delegation, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her counterparts in Rome on Wednesday.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is trying to dispel widespread rumours about her potentially replacing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg later this year following her visit to Washington on Monday. While many viewed her visit as a necessary step if...

Telecom networks are the engine of the green and digital transitions. Massive transformations are ongoing: network operators becoming tech comm companies. Corresponding investments require a modernised regulatory ecosystem, including a fair contribution by few large actors to network costs.

The European Commission laid out its mental health strategy on Wednesday (7 June), emphasising a cross-sectoral approach, to be achieved through 20 flagship initiatives, backed by €1.23 billion in funding.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) admitted that his efforts to mitigate impact of gas extraction in the province of Groningen were insufficient during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, where he ignored demands to step down.

Austria will send police officers and soldiers to bolster Moldova’s crisis management structures by addressing challenges such as disinformation and cyber attacks as part of the EU Partnership Mission in Moldova. In April, EU foreign ministers approved the launch of...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will reportedly enforce spending cuts across the federal ministries unless ministers justify their opposition after the Green and liberal coalition partners clashed over the topic. Liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s proposed spending cuts to plug an...

The French National Assembly approved a €413 billion military budget bill for 2024-2030 at first reading on Wednesday, with extra lines of credit for nuclear and ammunition to Ukraine. Following days of uncertainty, the military budget bill was broadly approved...

Britain will host the world's first summit on artificial intelligence later this year, in a bid to broker a common approach by countries to limit the technology's potential doomsday risks while harnessing its potential, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday (7 June).

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki vowed to resist attempts to close the Turow lignite mine, a subject of conflict between Poland and Czechia, despite a court order ruling the suspension of work. In its ruling delivered last week, the Warsaw...

Finland’s labour unions now fear that the likely future four-party right-wing government may upset their traditionally strong role in collective bargaining and weaken worker benefits, following a recent media leak relaying rumours from government formation talks. Already in their sixth...

The Bulgarian Energy Ministry is preparing an arbitration claim against Russian state gas company Gazprom for suspending gas supplies in April 2022 after Bulgaria refused to pay in Russian rubles, announced the caretaker government’s Energy Minister Rossen Hristov on Tuesday.

The European Commission’s decision to extend restrictions on the import of certain Ukrainian agricultural products has been met with criticism by the governments in Berlin and Madrid, who stressed the importance of continuing to support the war-torn country.

The agreement among the leading groups in the European Parliament on the AI regulation is dead, opening the door for amendments from both sides of the aisle.

The destruction of the Kakhovka dam, which has led to severe floods in parts of Ukraine, will likely impact both agricultural production and exports, according to the government in Kyiv.

“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” And trade restrictions are trade benefits, according to the latest from the European Commission this week - a move which rivals the fictional language known as ‘Newspeak’ in George Orwell’s timeless classic ‘1984’.

The EU's new fiscal rules should ensure fiscal responsibility without dogmas and allow for enough flexibility to enable investments, argue Stéphane Séjourné, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Eva Poptcheva, and Catharina Rinzema of the Renew group.

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday (7 June) €189.3 billion for the 2024 EU budget, which will need to be negotiated and agreed by member states and the European Parliament in the coming months.