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Detection orders are the focus of several informal documents, distributed during this week’s technical meetings in the European Parliament about the draft law to prevent online child sexual abuse. The proposed regulation aims to prevent and combat online child sexual...

The European Commission is considering watering down a carbon neutrality requirement for e-fuels to allow combustion engine cars to be sold after 2035, internal documents show, suggesting a split in the EU executive on handling the matter.

Enlargement of the EU by 2030 is doable, but only if the candidates and the bloc itself "redouble their efforts", Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhely told EURACTIV, adding that the European Commission will make "substantial proposals" for enlargement in October.

It is now clear that extreme weather events will have a massive impact on our economies if we don’t transform them. Times have changed and the rules governing the coordination of national economic policies in the EU must adapt, argues Isabelle Brachet.

As the Parisian ban on self-service scooters enters into force on 1 September, the city hall calls the move revolutionary amid an urban jungle, while stakeholders remain divided on the pros and cons.

Greece's prime minister said on Thursday (31 August) it would launch drones and install forest temperature sensors to improve preventive firefighting after criticism from climate activists over a devastating wildfire burning for almost two weeks.

In today's Capitals, Russian oil is fuelling a new political crisis in Bulgaria, the German Greens think they can subsidise the country's electricity prices, and so much more.

Germany’s implementation of the EU’s flagship cybersecurity legislation, NIS-2 will be fully integrated into national law by 17 October 2024. We caught up with Steven Heckler, Deputy Head of Department for Digitalisation and Innovation at BDI (Federal Association of German...

The European Commission is not planning to allow farmers further exemptions on environmental measures for another year to boost cereal production, according to EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, despite mounting pressure to do so from member states.

Niger's ruling junta has ordered police to expel France's ambassador, a move marking a further downturn in relations, and one that authorities in Paris said the army officers who seized power in Niamey last month had no authority to make.

Greek and Albanian foreign ministers traded statements on Thursday as the dispute over Fredi Beleri, an Albanian ethnic Greek mayor arrested on suspicion of vote buying and held in pre-trial detention, rumbles on. Beleri, the winning candidate for Himare, running...

It is difficult to find a solution in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina when talking to people who do not want to look for a solution said President Aleksandar Vučić. “We could have sat for 10 hours. It is...

The African Union on Thursday (31 August) suspended Gabon's membership one day after military officers ousted President Ali Bongo, the first regional response to the eighth coup in West and Central Africa since 2020.

A team of EU Commission experts will visit the Romanian cities of Constanța and Galaţi from Friday to Saturday as part of the EU Executive’s quest to find solutions to improve transit, and commodities flow along ‘solidarity lanes‘ the Commission set...

For the whole world, Westerplatte is a symbol of the beginning of World War II. For us Poles, like Thermopylae, it symbolizes the heroic fight for a scrap of homeland's territory.

The Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw has suspended proceedings against the decision to extend the concession for the Turów mine until 2044, meaning that the mine, which has been the subject of a long-running dispute between Poland and the Czech...

Slovakia’s projected battery production capacity will reach 10 GWh by 2030, faring lower than those projected for Visegrad counterparts and beating only Croatia’s two GWh in the Central European region, an analysis of the vehicle production-dependent country by Erste Group...

Former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont announced he would hold a meeting in Brussels to define his party Junts per Catalunya’s framework to open formal negotiations with the PSOE and would set the terms of the talks. After the Spanish...

It could soon be mandatory to report the irregular stay of migrants in Sweden, according to a proposal being prepared by the Swedish coalition and its far-right ally, which also plans to tighten internal immigration controls with random checks and...