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Elections that took place in the north of Kosovo in four municipalities with a Serb majority registered the lowest turnout ever in the country’s history at just 3.47%, sparking harsh words from Serbian President Aleksander Vucic and scathing criticism of...

Government infighting in Berlin could see Germany abandon a mandatory renovation principle in the EU's buildings directive ahead of final negotiations in Brussels.

Beijing needs the EU and the whole of Europe to be passive in the context of tensions between China and the USA. And Beijing wants exactly the same in the context of the war in Ukraine – it wants Europe to betray its key military and security ally - the United States, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Despite the EU’s emphasis on free movement, workers from the Western Balkans continue to face serious obstacles when taking up work in the EU, says Aleksandra Lakić, programme manager at the Zajedničko Platform in Belgrade.

Czech President Petr Pavel has called for a joint and balanced strategy between the US, Europe and other democracies to address China’s increasing economic, political, and financial power while avoiding divisive lines between them. Pavel spoke about EU-US-China relations with...

Oral contraception may soon become free in Italy, but pro-natal associations argue that the government should instead invest the funds in family support as the country is facing declining birth rates. The Pricing and Reimbursement Committee (CPR) of the Italian...

The two biggest parties likely to form a right-wing government remain divided on immigration despite this being a possible answer to the current labour shortage that is negatively affecting the health sector and growth. After two weeks of negotiations, Finland...

Azerbaijan said on Sunday (23 April) it had established a checkpoint on the only land route to the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a step that was followed by claims of border shootings by both Azeri and Armenian forces.

MPs will debate a public petition calling the government to hold a public inquiry into the impact of Brexit on Monday. “The UK’s departure from the EU was a democratic choice, and the UK-EU institutions are functioning as intended. The...

Plans for a new power line to link both countries and offshore wind turbines in the North Sea, to increase energy security and boost renewable power, will be announced by the Netherlands and the UK on Monday.

Dutch mayors and the families of fallen soldiers asked citizens to hang Dutch flags for Remembrance Day properly and not upside down amid ongoing protests against the country’s nitrogen policy. In the wake of fierce disagreement between the government and...

The communist party KPÖplus made huge gains and secured a solid fourth place in its best supralocal election result since at least World War II in the Salzburg state elections on Sunday, which also had the far-right FPÖ make the...

The liberal FDP party (Renew) has renewed its call for a higher carbon surcharge on fossil fuels at a party convention this weekend to stop a proposed ban on new gas and oil boilers as of 2024. Last week, the...

EU environmental reporting rules cause an administrative burden for companies and should be measured against the burden they would cause each time they are adopted, a plan to curb costs and bureaucracy for companies presented by German conservatives reads.

EU foreign ministers on Monday (24 March) are expected to give their political green light to create a new sanctions framework to target Moldovan oligarchs trying to overturn the pro-Western government in Chișinău. With the new framework, EU travel bans...

The European Parliament’s leaders bowed to the pressure of governments and avoided a debate over the rule of law in Greece, Spain and Malta, commented Dutch Renew Europe MEP Sophie in´t Veld (D66). EURACTIV reported last week that a resolution...

The armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom have evacuated embassy staff from Sudan, while other nations rushed to get their citizens to safety as rival military factions battled in the capital Khartoum on Sunday (23 April).

Anger in Eastern Europe and Ukraine is expected to boil over into an EU foreign ministers meeting on Monday (24 April) after China’s ambassador to France drew a rebuke for questioning the sovereignty of post-Soviet countries. Speaking on Friday (21...

The French Parliament recently published the final report from a special inquiry committee looking into “the reasons for France’s loss of energy sovereignty and independence”. EURACTIV spoke to its lead rapporteur, centrist MP Antoine Armand.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called on European navies to patrol the disputed Taiwan Strait, in a opinion piece in a French weekly published Sunday (22 April).