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France and its European partners involved in the fight against Islamist militants in Mali have decided to start the coordinated withdrawal of their military resources in the country, a joint statement said on Thursday (17 February).

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says "global fallout" would be inevitable if the West moves ahead with the punishing, coordinated sanctions threatened against Russia, should it attack Ukraine.

There is a growing Russian military presence at Ukraine's borders, Western countries warned on Wednesday (16 February), as Estonia said battle groups were moving ahead of a likely attack to occupy "key terrain," contradicting Moscow's insistence of a pullback.

The Capitals brings you the latest news from across Europe, through on-the-ground reporting by EURACTIV’s media network. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Today’s edition is powered by Equinor. How can hydrogen help accelerate the energy transition? To be...

The geographical imbalance of EU Commission jobs is on everyone's radar. Most EU member states are frustrated with the current situation, and the EU executive's current plans are unlikely to satisfy them, EURACTIV has learnt.

Accusations of greenwashing against major oil companies that claim to be in transition to clean energy are well-founded, according to the most comprehensive study to date. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

More than anything else, Africa should focus on developing its electricity grid in order to unleash its huge potential for wind and solar power. This is a massive political challenge across a very large continent, writes Johan van den Berg.

In Montenegro, “the way out of the political crisis lies in democracy,” UK Ambassador to Montenegro Karen Maddocks, who has been outspoken since the crisis started, said in a recent interview. Whether MPs choose to support the new government or new...

The Bureau for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region has earmarked around €40,000 for projects of Serb associations in France during the last three years, but the events anf digital platform activities evidence support of right-wing and...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in New York after participating in a meeting of the UN Security Council of which Albania is a non-permanent member for 2022-2023. The US Embassy in Tirana...

Athens will not change its position on Kosovo, but because it wants to see the normalisation of relations with Pristina, it supports a continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on his...

The government decided to start signing agreements related to the reserve capacities of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the floating LNG terminal in Greece’s Alexandroupolis, which is currently under construction. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has already been concluded between...

Those who “engage in corrupt, destabilising or anti-democratic behaviour” in the Western Balkans region will face the “consequences”, Gabriel Escobar, the US special envoy for the region said at the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation...

A Bulgarian nationalist MEP gave a Nazi salute in the plenary chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday (16 February), sparking outrage after he spoke during a debate on the rule of law in Poland and Hungary.

Serbia and Greece shared a common vision of the European future of the Western Balkans, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in Belgrade, stressing that Athens wanted to see Serbia as part of the EU. After talks with Serbian President...

The package of measures to cushion energy price rises presented by the government has been welcomed by the entrepreneurs’ association, but attacked by the opposition. The Croatian government on Wednesday launched a package of measures worth 4.8 billion kuna (€640...

The Romanian Energy Ministry is preparing to launch calls for green energy projects funded from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). ”We put up for public debate several guides for funding of hundreds of millions euros from the NRRP,”...

Less than a month before a European Climate Conference in Nantes, one of the highlights of the French EU Council presidency, it is still unclear who will attend or what the conference's objectives will be, with one official positioning the event as a "mini-COP". EURACTIV France reports.

Before European ministers gather for an informal meeting to promote a more social and solidary economy in Paris today (17 February), the French state secretary for the social economy Olivia Grégoire fleshed out her view of the social economy in...