The Romanian and Moldovan governments signed a memorandum about the interconnection of natural gas and electricity networks between their countries, through the expansion of the Iasi-Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline. The cooperation between the two states will focus on concrete projects in...

Former EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel is looking for five votes in parliament to become prime minister. She has the support of 116 deputies from GERB, DPS and ITN but has until next Wednesday to find the remaining votes before facing...

Migration has become so politicised in recent decades that even the successful integration of refugees from Ukraine will not change the European approach to people from other continents, according to the predictions of Prague-based experts. The Temporary Protection Directive was...

A local court in the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla, on the North African coast, has opened an investigation into an alleged case of postal voting fraud after an unusual number of people requested documentation for remote voting in the...

The 1st European B+ Summit conference, held in Estoril, Portugal, from 26 to 28 April 2023, brought together industry players from across Europe to discuss the decarbonisation of Heavy-Duty Vehicles (HDVs) through higher biodiesel blends. Xavier Noyon is the Secretary...

The Ukrainian military and Russia's Wagner private army both reported further Russian retreats around the city of Bakhmut on Thursday (18 May), as Kyiv pressed on with its biggest advance for six months ahead of a planned counteroffensive.

The cost of the European Council summit for Iceland is not yet known but is believed to be within the budget, the Icelandic Office of the Police Inspector General revealed on Thursday. As the last guests of the Council of...

Nordic countries are coordinating their policy concerning Russian citizens escaping military service and are waiting for guidance from the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA). Around 1,109 Russian citizens have fled to Finland when trying to avoid military service, based on...

Farmers’ representatives and the Dutch government still have not agreed on the proposed Agriculture Accord, which seeks to lay out the blueprint for the future of the country’s agrarian sector, despite negotiations lasting nearly 24 hours. R The accord aims...

The LGBTI Intergroup at the European Parliament watches over member states and the Commission closely while also influencing legislative files ‘to make sure the LGBTI community is not forgotten’, Greens/EFA MEP and co-President of the LGBTI Intergroup Kim van Sparrentak...

As a constitutionally neutral country, Austria has not restricted itself to humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine but has not gone further than delivering helmets, however, leading members of the two government parties are split on whether demining Ukrainian territories...

Spain violated current MEP and former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s political rights – and those of his constituents – by stripping him of his regional parliamentary seat, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled on Thursday. The Committee concludes that the...

China's President Xi Jinping on 19 May unveiled an ambitious plan to help elevate Central Asia to the next level of its development - from building infrastructure networks to boosting trade - while shunning "external interference" at the same time.

Following the gruesome death of an eight-year-old child at the hands of his stepfather, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reopened the topic of reinstating the death penalty, with over half of Poles supporting the idea despite the legal impossibility of implementing...

EU defence ministers will on Tuesday (23 May) review and update the list of defence projects launched under the ambitious PESCO umbrella, amid concerns that most projects will never make it over the line.

The French Senate adopted a resolution recognising the Holodomor famine as genocide in a move that ‘rewrites history’, said the Russian Embassy in France on Thursday. The resolution was adopted by senators on Wednesday evening by a vast majority. The...

A collaboration between socialists and conservatives to form a coalition government in Greece after the 21 May elections would not be a good option for the Mediterranean country, especially after a wiretapping scandal which has been shaking Greek politics for...

Leaders of the world's advanced democracies were set to unleash new sanctions against Russia as they gathered for a Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan's Hiroshima, a symbolic backdrop for their efforts to make Moscow end the Ukraine war.

We don’t know if Vladimir Putin will ultimately be able to make territorial gains at the expense of Ukraine but the Russian president has already irreversibly lost something more precious: the Baltic Sea, and to some extent, the Black Sea as well.

Ukraine said "unprecedented" air attacks had rocked its capital and other areas early Thursday (18 May), a day after it reached an agreement with Russia to extend a deal allowing grain exports across the Black Sea.