The American ambassador to Portugal, Randi Charno Levine, said the Azores are of “critical importance” to NATO on Monday.

Ten thousand farmers converged at the Brenner Pass on Monday, voicing their opposition to and collecting signatures for a petition against imported foods masquerading as authentic Italian products.

The Spanish People's Party (PP/EPP) would outperform ruling Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE/S&D) if general elections were held in Spain today, according to a poll by private research agency 40dB. 

German far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came out in support of Petr Bystron on Monday, one of their top candidates for the European elections, who allegedly received cash from a pro-Russian news site for his election campaign.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s Besoin d’Europe coalition has upped support for a new pact on migration and asylum, emphasising a desire to tackle illegal immigration and fend off the far-right narrative ahead of June’s EU elections.

Ongoing farmers protests have influenced the results of the local elections in Poland, and may contribute to the outcome of June's European elections, according to politicians and election data.

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will veto a disputed draft law on "foreign agents", a senior aide was cited by local media as saying on Monday (8 April), the day the bill was formally registered in parliament by the government.

Spain will scrap its so-called "golden visa" programme granting residency rights to foreigners who make large investments in real estate in the country, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told reporters on Monday (8 April).

The EU is faced with a grid investment gap of €800 billion until 2030, finds a report commissioned by industry lobby-group ERT, who call for another power market revamp to help address the issue.

In this episode of our daily ‘Today in the EU’ podcast, we examine the latest scandal to affect Germany's right-wing populist AfD party.

Patients suffering from rare diseases across the EU, and their families, are struggling on the road to lifesaving and life-altering healthcare. The difficult patient Odyssey is warped by a postcode lottery.

EU lawmakers reached an agreement on the renewal of trade liberalisation measures with Ukraine on Monday (8 April), after member states reopened negotiations to reinforce safeguards against market distortions.

Expanding the number of places where smoking is prohibited, providing for a sharp increase in tobacco taxes, and putting vapers on the same footing as conventional smokers are among the main “deterrent” measures included in Spain’s new anti-smoking plan.

Six years ago, the Brief imagined the ethical challenge that killer robots, possessing, artificial intelligence and presumably looking like Terminator, would pose.

A future referendum on Catalonia's hypothetical independence from the rest of Spain “will cease to be unconstitutional and impossible”, Catalan president Pere Aragonès, of the separatist Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) formation, said on Monday (8 April).

Portugal became the eighth country to adopt the controversial front-of-pack labelling Nutriscore on Friday (5 April) after the European Commission failed to unveil a proposal for an EU-wide model.

As the 2024 expiration of the Russian gas transit contract via Ukraine approaches, the EU faces a pivotal choice, writes Sergiy Makogon.

The fate of democracy and Georgia's European future hangs in the balance yet again. The recent reintroduction of the foreign agent law by the ruling party Georgian Dream is an extremely worrisome crossroad in the nation's democratic path, writes Paata Gaprindashvili.

Over the past year, amid heightened global geopolitical tensions, the European Union has viewed its trade and economic cooperation with China as a "risk point", and the trend is intensifying

.The EU's operation in the Red Sea to protect commercial ships from attacks by Houthi rebels is showing results but remains stuck in a small area of operation due to a lack of ships and other assets, officials said on Monday (8 April).