The prices of 400 basic products sold across eight of Slovakia’s biggest supermarket chains will be capped for three months, announced Agriculture Minister Samuel Vlčan. Tesco, Lidl, Kaufland and Billa have decided to cap prices for the next three months,...

The European Commission is suing Czechia for not having introduced rules to protect whistleblowers, a spokesman for the Court of Justice of the EU recently said, the Czech News Agency reported. Member states were supposed to transpose the EU Whistleblowers...

Vladimir Putin will expect Chinese President Xi Jinping to show solidarity against western hegemony when he arrives in Moscow on 20 March, while Xi will present China as a global peacemaker intent on brokering an end to the Ukraine war.

While much of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), proposed by the European Commission on Thursday (16 March), was considered less ambitious than expected by many analysts, its provision on joint purchasing of raw materials may prove pivotal.

The Illegal Migration Bill Home coined the ‘stop the boats plan’, would result in 45,000 children effectively barred from refugee status in the UK, according to an upcoming report by the Refugee Council, The Guardian reported. The upcoming report analyses...

Flights will have their CO2 emissions capped from 2025 depending on the airport, the Dutch cabinet announced on Friday without yet specifying the different thresholds for each. The law follows up on the “Aviation Memorandum 2020-2050”, a 2020 memorandum which...

The Austrian centre-right ÖVP of Lower Austria looks to govern with the far-right FPÖ, forming a right-wing government in the country’s largest state and setting the scene for the upcoming 2024 elections. In the state election of Lower Austria in...

France was marked by a series of protests and violent clashes this weekend, with some targeting parliamentarians after President Emmanuel Macron’s government bypassed parliament to adopt the much-reviled pension reform – a move that will have parties vote on two...

EU foreign and defence ministers on Monday (20 March) are expected to sign off on a €2-billion plan to raid their stockpiles and jointly purchase much-needed artillery shells for Ukraine, but some continue to voice doubts over the exclusion of...

Companies registered in Bulgaria have reported record profits over the past two years, despite the country’s dominant political narrative telling citizens the story that the country is in a perpetual state of crisis. EURACTIV reported in a series of articles...

Coking coal will stay on the list of raw materials critical for the European Union after Poland, a key producer of the energy source, succeeded in persuading the Commission after the latter published its proposal for a new Critical Raw...

Unidentified tankers are shipping oil through the Gulf of Finland after the G7 implemented a $60 price cap on Russian oil and the EU and UK imposed a ban on the seaborne import of Russian crude oil forcing Moscow to...

Becoming less dependent on China and Russia was high on the agenda in Tokyo as Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ministers attended their first-ever bilateral government consultations with Japan this weekend. Scholz, Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck, and...

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the centre-right party Partido Popular (PP/EPP) is teaming up with far-right party VOX as his party announced it would abstain in Wednesday’s vote on the no-confidence motion in the Spanish government, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez...

While Kosovo and Serbia reached a verbal agreement on implementing an EU-backed deal to normalise ties over the weekend, disagreements and a lack of clarity over what shape some provisions will take, remain.

Montenegro's incumbent President Milo Djukanovic will face a run-off election against Jakov Milatovic, a young economist from the increasingly popular Europe Now Movement, projections of results released by a local NGO suggested on Sunday (19 March).

Kazakhstan voted in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday (19 March) widely expected to cement President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's grip on power and complete a reshuffle of the ruling elite that began after he fully assumed leadership last year.

Montenegrins cast ballots Sunday (19 March) in a presidential contest pitting the Adriatic nation's longest serving leader Milo Djukanovic against a range of rivals hoping to shake up the country's political scene.

President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Mariupol, Russian state media reported on Sunday (19 March), in what would be the Kremlin leader's first trip to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine's Donbas region since the start of the war.

Kosovo and Serbia stopped short of signing a potentially landmark deal late Saturday (18 March) night after holding a marathon round of talks, even as the EU hailed progress toward reaching a long-sought agreement between the arch-foes.