Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu warned gambling companies on Tuesday that their licences would be revoked if they failed to comply with a law banning slot machines in smaller towns, in a bid to tackle the country's alarming gambling addiction rates.

Bulgaria’s caretaker government has disbursed much-anticipated funds worth €150 million to compensate farmers for the negative effects of the import of Ukrainian agricultural products.

Delays in regularising the status of migrants in Portugal are hampering access to justice and criminal proceedings against traffickers, the Council of Europe's Group of Experts against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) warned on Tuesday. 

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is determined to fight to regain his post and defend his leadership, after several nerve-wracking days where he said he was seriously considering resigning.

Georgian security forces used water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades against protesters outside parliament, sharply escalating a crackdown after lawmakers debated a "foreign agents" bill viewed by the opposition as authoritarian and Russian-inspired.

The Kremlin's move to nationalise the Italian company's Ariston subsidiary is an attempt to influence the G7's decision to seize Russian assets in Europe, says Vittorio Torrembini, president of the association of Italian entrepreneurs in Russia, Gim-Unimpresa, calling on the Italian Foreign Ministry to intervene.

The Danish government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce a carbon tax on agriculture despite the Danish Climate Ministry's annual report showing that the country is on track to meet its 2030 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70% compared to 1990 levels.

Poland has invested €86 billion in the European Union project and gained €261 billion in the 20 years since it joined, according to data presented by Funds and Regional Policy Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęczit at a press conference on Tuesday. 

Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, the lead candidate of Spain’s left-wing PSOE in the upcoming EU elections, urged EU citizens on Tuesday to mobilise to prevent a possible alliance between the European People’s Party (EPP) candidate, current European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and far-right forces in the European Parliament.

Europeans suffer 100,000 amputations a year because of the escalating issue of ‘diabetic foot’. Diabetes already burdens health systems, but without more frequent monitoring programmes, experts warn the amputation crisis will get worse.

In Italy, G7 ministers agreed a coal phase out in the first half of the 2030s, agreed on their first-ever energy storage target, started difficult negotiations on climate finance past 2025 and founded a water coalition.

With the EU elections just a month away and the Greens struggling to get off the ground in the polls, Marie Toussaint, head of the Green party list, called on Tuesday for "a great leap forward".

A group of EU countries is calling to relax rules on mandatory practices to protect peatlands and wetlands under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) only days after the European Parliament rubber-stamped an overhaul of six other environmental conditions.

The eurozone beat analyst expectations to emerge comfortably from a recession in the first quarter of this year, new EU data published on Tuesday (30 April) showed, while inflation figures boosted hopes of long-awaited rate cuts by the European Central Bank (ECB) in June.

Showing courageous responsibility means today that we must make our European Union fit to take in new countries already in this decade, writes German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

European policymakers need to short-circuit Sudan’s warring parties’ attempts to manipulate aid to legitimate them as the government in waiting, writes Theodore Murphy.

European fisheries are at the heart of a diplomatic crisis brewing between the EU and the UK, their first trade spat since the UK left the European Union in February 2020.

As the European Union extends its hand in accession negotiations with Moldova, the nation stands at a pivotal juncture, poised between its past and its future. The European Union is engaging in accession talks with Moldova, marking a critical moment...

The European Commission announced on Tuesday (30 April) the winners of its first auction to allocate subsidies for hydrogen production, with most of the €720 million awarded going to projects in the Iberian peninsula.

The EU should expand its budget and consider linking all member state payments to structural reforms, EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Monday (29 April).