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French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his military and diplomatic support to Ukraine for as long as necessary following a dinner in Paris with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but the Elysée said that sending fighter planes is still “premature”. The...

Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev may be dismissed by the month’s end after six Prosecution College members of the Supreme Judicial Council demanded that he be fired on Friday after he interfered in an ongoing investigation. He has been accused...

Around 6.3 million Italians were called to elect the mayors of 790 municipalities from Sunday to Monday, and the election outcome could change the power balance in the government majority and influence alliances in the opposition. It is the first...

Member states have until the end of 2023 to define the kind of enlargement mechanism that would work for countries looking to access the EU while ensuring the EU stays true to itself, French EU Minister Laurence Boone told EURACTIV...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s recent comparison of European integration to Hitler’s plans were rejected by Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, who pointed out that nobody is forcing Hungary to be a part of the European community. Meanwhile, EU Commissioner...

Holding the G7 in Hiroshima without advancing on nuclear disarmament would simply be a political failure, write Merle Spellerberg and Max Lucks.

Caution is needed to prevent the EU's ongoing electricity market reform from creating regulatory uncertainty and hindering future investment in renewables, argue Christopher Jones and Klaus-Dieter Borchardt.

European Council President Charles Michel spoke of progress in talks between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Brussels on Sunday (14 May), adding that "momentum should be maintained" towards a final peace deal.

Poland’s renewable energy capacity is increasing, but the country’s power and heat production is still dominated by coal and forms the biggest contribution to its emissions, according to a report by Polish think tank Forum Energii.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Pope Francis on Saturday (13 May) to back Kyiv’s peace plan, and the pope indicated the Vatican would help in the repatriation of Ukrainian children taken by Russians. “It is a great honour,” Zelenskyy told...

The EU must be prepared for the major shift toward a democratic government in Turkiye, a clear objective of which will be to strengthen its ties with EU institutions and member states, as well as to revitalise the EU membership negotiations, writes Kader Sevinç.

A decision by the Eurovision organisers to block Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from addressing the competition's grand final on Saturday (13 May) on the grounds of keeping it "non-political" has irritated many  – including the British government.

Politics at the Eurovision song contest (ESC) cannot be avoided but the integrity of the voting system had to be guaranteed after a wilful voting bloc was uncovered last year, a representative of the competition’s organisers told EURACTIV.

EU foreign ministers backed on Friday (12 May) a plan to reduce the EU's economic dependence on China but, as the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said, will now have to figure out how to make that a reality.

Turkey's elections on Sunday (14 May) are a key moment not just for the country itself but also for its European neighbours.

Moscow acknowledged on Friday (12 May) that its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine's battlefield city of Bakhmut after a new Ukrainian offensive, in a retreat that the head of Russia's Wagner private army called a rout.

South African officials on Friday (12 May) hit back at US accusations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town late last year, a move investors fear could lead Washington to impose sanctions.

A network of influential Greek political consultants working for the European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber and boasting impeccable links to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has emerged ahead of next week’s Greek elections. 

There was surprise earlier this year when the Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard – whose government holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU Council - told reporters that trade access and aid could be denied to countries who refuse to cooperate on migrant returns.

The decision to allocate the money to the support package for member states hit by the Ukrainian agriculture influx according to quantitative, rather than qualitative, criteria shows the risk of ‘politicising’ a portion of the EU’s farming subsidies. You’ve probably...