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The European Semester will play a key role in the implementation of the National Recovery Plans, to be submitted by mid-October. The reform of the Semester process was already in the pipeline but it is now essential to raise expectations and transform this coordination tool into a useful instrument able to grasp the changes affecting vital aspects of our daily life: health, education and work, writes Maria João Rodrigues and others.

The recent Vienna election was a great victory for Social Democrats while the far-right FPÖ suffered a massive crash, losing two-thirds of support. The final result will be available Tuesday evening (13 October), but coalition options are already clear. EURACTIV Germany reports.

With youth unemployment on the rise across the EU, and aggravated further by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, EU lawmakers called upon the European Commission and member states last week to increase their support for young people in precarious working conditions.

To paraphrase the words of the American political activist Ralph Nader – if you’re not turned on to Africa, Africa will turn on you. Udo Bullmann is the S&D group Coordinator on the European Parliament’s Development Committee. Carlos Zorrinho is...

The European Commission should not grant the UK a data adequacy agreement as part of its ongoing assessment of the country's data protection landscape, an Irish civil rights group has said. 

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Chinese telecom giant Huawei is finding it harder to counter US sanctions designed to choke off its access to semiconductors but can continue to serve European 5G network clients, a senior European executive told an Austrian newspaper.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the curfews imposed in some of Germany's major cities, A Bulgarian EPP MEP calling the EU Parliament's resolution on the rule of law and fundamental rights in Bulgaria "slander", and so much more.

With a call to "fix our climate" by 2030, Prince William on Saturday (10 October) joined a global array of activists, artists, celebrities and politicians taking part in a free streamed TED event aimed at mobilising and unifying people to confront the climate crisis.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Sunday that he didn’t have to answer when asked to “recognise Kosovo’s independence without getting anything in return, and seeing the Serbs exposed to a pogrom similar to that of 17 March 2004.” Commenting...

Turkish-held northern Cyprus, a breakaway state recognised only by Ankara, voted Sunday (11 October) for a new leader, amid charges of meddling by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Petar Petkovic, hitherto assistant director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, was appointed the new head of the institution on Friday (9 October), according to announcements. Petkovic was reportedly named the day before, by government decree, and...

Given the high levels of community spreading, the COVID-19 situation remains severe, Romanian health officials have said. Emergency services chief Raed Arafat even predicts that Romania could soon be recording between 5,000 and 7,000 new coronavirus cases daily. While new...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wants to buy Budapest airport from GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, a Canadian pension fund, and AviAlliance, an airport management company. The airport, which was one of the world’s fastest-growing mid-sized hubs before the pandemic,...

Zsófia Koncz won the by-election in the Tiszaújváros – Szerencs constituency with 50.9% of the vote, securing Fidesz’s two-thirds supermajority in the Hungarian parliament on Sunday. The elections had to be called after Koncz’s father died in a motorcycle accident...

The Greek court is expected to announce today the sentences against neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party which was branded last week as a criminal organisation. The court will decide whether there are grounds for recognising mitigating circumstances, something that will eventually...

The much-awaited exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey face a fresh stalemate as Turkey has decided to re-escalate by sending back Oruç Reis vessel to Greece’s continental shelf, south of the island of Kastelorizo. The removal of Oruç Reis vessel...

Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his socialist counterpart from Portugal, Antonio Costa, agreed during the “Iberian Summit” in Guarda (Portugal) on Saturday to unite forces, and cooperate on so-called joint “Iberian” projects, EURACTIV’s partner EuroEFE has reported. The...

Is the US election a done deal? Not yet, says Dick Roche, and explains why it is too early to consider that Donald Trump will necessarily lose.

Though Italy is tightening its COVID-19 restrictions by imposing the mandatory use of face masks indoors and outdoors even while walking but not running or jogging, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said that “Italy cannot face another lockdown. Its...