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Pan-European exchange Euronext said on Thursday (5 November) it was listening to calls from top banks and asset managers about finding a way to trade on alternative platforms when there are lengthy outages like last month.

Of the people who quit smoking in Finland within the last year, 15% have done so because of the coronavirus, according to a survey commissioned by the Finnish health organisation and carried out among citizens aged between 17 and 79....

French MPs are currently examining a bill that would prohibit the publication of images allowing the identification of law enforcement officers if the purpose of the broadcast is to harm their “physical or psychological integrity” – something which police unions...

The home address of Thuringian state leader Bodo Ramelow was published online by members of the online movement ‘Querdenken‘ (English: thinking outside the box), which promotes conspiracy theories that deny the existence of COVID-19. On Wednesday night, Ramelow found at...

Each euro invested in cancer treatment is a step closer to patients' health, so Europe should not cut corners and leave patients alone in their fight, centre-right MEP Bartosz Arłukowicz told EURACTIV in an interview.

The United Kingdom’s Transport Minister Grant Shapps said on Friday (6 November) that people arriving in the country from Denmark will need to self-isolate for 14 days, starting on Saturday, as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus. “I...

The EU should scale up the use of sustainable renewable fuels in road transport if Europe’s ambitions for a decarbonised economy are to become a reality by 2050, stakeholders have said.

As the world struggles with a global pandemic, the US navigates its post-election reality and China’s role on a world stage is changing, European defence cooperation is ever more important. Poland, due to our very particular historic experience, is dedicating...

The EU foreign service has condemned Israel's demolition of more than 70 Palestinian structures in Khirbet Hamsa al-Foqa, in the occupied West Bank, which made 11 families, including 41 children, homeless, saying it was "an impediment towards the two-state solution" favoured by the UN. There were 52 Palestinian schools still under threat of being bulldozed, including an EU-funded academy in the West Bank's Ras Al-Teen community, the EU noted.

A 27-year-old jihadist from Tajikistan has been arrested by Greece’s Counter-Terrorism Service, Greek media reported on Thursday. The 27-year-old was an ISIS fighter and was in the lists of Interpol. He is a father of four children, who had come...

French president Emmanuel Macron has pledged deep reform of free movement in the EU in the wake of recent terrorist attacks.

Belgian police seized 11.5 tonnes of pure cocaine hidden in a scrap metal container in the country's single biggest-ever haul, prosecutors said on Thursday (5 November).

Reversing damaging incentives to burn wood for heat and power is crucial if the EU wants to remain a leader on climate and biodiversity, argue Annika Lund Gade and Peter de Jong.

The World Health Organisation in Europe said on Thursday it was seeing an "explosion" of coronavirus cases on the continent and warned of a "tough time" ahead as mortality rates rose, AFP reports. "We do see an explosion ... in the sense it only takes a couple of days to have over the European region an increase of one million cases," WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said.

EU politicians have cautioned against thinking the US would make a full U-turn toward Europe even if Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden wins.

Members of the World Trade Organisation are likely to appoint Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the trade body’s director general next week despite attempts by US President Donald Trump to block the former Nigerian finance minister.

In Paris, 84 patients with the coronavirus died Wednesday in its hospitals, which are at 92 percent capacity, with 1,050 Covid-19 patients in intensive care and another 600 patients in ICU with other ailments, AP news agency reports. With more than 27,000 people hospitalised across France, Covid-19 patients occupy more than 80 percent of the nation's ICU beds, according to the public health agency, the highest level since April.

Norway's environmental groups, including Greenpeace and Youth Norway, have argued that new licences for exploratory oil-drilling violate a constitutional right to a healthy environment, the New York Times reported on Thursday. After two lower courts previously rejected invalidating the exploration licences issued by the government, the Supreme Court has been asked to confront this apparent contradiction to the country's constitution's environmental provisions.

The deal means MEPs and the German EU presidency unblocked a major political hurdle to agreeing on the €1.8 trillion long-term EU budget and coronavirus recovery package.

A group of 70 NGOs has urged the European Commission to ban the export to third countries of pesticides prohibited inside Europe - and stop the import of food produced with such pesticides from outside the bloc.