France has made energy sufficiency – the deliberate reduction of energy consumption – one of the three pillars of its decarbonisation strategy, alongside nuclear and renewables. However, Brussels and other European capitals have yet to fully embrace the approach.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) addressed criticism from members of his own party for lack of a clear-cut plan on the country’s migration crisis during a party congress on Saturday, stating he remains cautions to ensure ‘stability of the cabinet’....

Russia said on Monday (5 June) that its forces had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive at five points along the front in the southern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops.

Germany’s far-right party AfD has now caught up with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) as the two are polling at 19% in latest opinion polls, while the leading opposition party, the conservative union of CDU and CSU, is polling...

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called the recent violence in the north of Kosovo a push to divide the country or create a version of Republika Srpska, while former foreign minister Meliza Haradinaj said Kosovo should review EU participation in...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ centre-right New Democracy is leading current polls with enough predicted votes to win a majority of seats ahead of a snap election that was called after no party won a majority to form a government in...

Member states need to take the lead in addressing healthcare labour shortages, and the EU needs to establish monitoring and funding schemes as part of a common European response, global health policy researcher at WEMOS Corinne Hinlopen told EURACTIV. While...

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) will trigger early elections if the prime minister switch that was agreed to within the ruling coalition in December and which was supposed to have already taken place is not respected, said Social-Democrat MEP Victor...

Achieving the green transition requires rapid and large-scale investment from cities, national governments and the private sector acting in unison, writes Mark Watts.

The European People’s Party (EPP) and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) groups are gradually converging to prevent the emergence of a left-wing majority in the European Parliament after the 2024 elections, said Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS, ECR)....

Lega’s entry into the European People’s Party (EPP) is not on the agenda amid differences on key issues, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told The T before adding that he will continue to work for an agreement of the centre-right...

Austria’s Social Democratic SPÖ party elected migration hardliner Hans Peter Dosksozil to lead the party at a special party convention in Linz on Saturday, kickstarting an internal process to decide the party’s direction ahead of the 2024 legislative elections. On...

Finland and the US have signed a Joint Statement on Cooperation in Advanced Wireless Communications in Helsinki, which was seen as the ”free world’s” response to Chinese technology. Following the signing at the Helsinki Town Hall, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka...