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Sweden is not worried about Turkey not having yet approved or given any information about when it would ratify Sweden’s NATO application, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told the press Monday, despite Ankara last week promising to give the go...

People with pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme will automatically have their status extended in September by two years before it expires if they have not obtained settled status, according to the New Immigration Rules presented in parliament on...

The Dutch Labour Party (PvdA/S&D) and GroenLinks (GL/Greens) will present a joint electoral list and programme for the national elections in November, the two parties announced on Monday after a referendum among party members showed overwhelming support for the idea....

Two wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged uncontrolled through coastal towns near Athens on Monday (17 July) forcing residents to flee their homes and prompting the evacuation of hundreds of children from a summer camp.

The authority responsible for advising the government on public health matters came out in favour of assisted suicide in exceptional cases, listing conditions and excluding euthanasia from its recommendations. 

Russia halted participation on Monday (17 July) in the year-old UN-brokered deal that lets Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea, causing concern in poorer countries that price rises will put food out of reach.

Interest in the CEE-China Initiative is dwindling amongst its Central and Eastern European members and minimal economic returns and China’s foreign policy are largely to blame, writes Patrick Triglavcanin.

The Baltic states are set to decouple from the Russian power grid in early 2025 despite calls from Lithuania for an earlier exit, Estonian Prime Minister told Reuters.

Bulgarian arms exports increased by 200% in 2022 when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, Bulgarian Economy Minister Bogdan Bogdanov told state television on Monday. Last year, Bulgaria’s export of specialised weapons production was worth €1.7 billion, equal to 2%...

Europe will become an equal player in the global format only when it becomes a federation, Czech Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvořák told EURACTIV.cz in an exclusive interview.

Pressure to ratify the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is mounting on Austrian chancellor Karl Nehmanner, as the industry and the parts of his own party urged him to lift his veto.

Spain wants to lead the future EU relations with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), but while majority parties, centre-left PSOE (S&D) and centre-right PP (EPP), avoid talking about Spain’s colonial past and leftist SUMAR (Left/Greens) is...

The German government wants to convince a hesitant France that the merits of the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement - currently being discussed at the EU-CELAC summit - are worthwhile, Franziska Brantner, the parliamentary state secretary in charge of trade at the Economy Ministry, told EURACTIV in an interview.

A leaked EU draft report on the renewal of EU approval for the controversial herbicide glyphosate suggests it could be approved as early as September, a timeline lambasted by green campaign groups as 'undemocratic'.

The Meta-owned social media platforms will face a temporary three-month ban on behavioural advertising based on extensive user profiling in Norway starting on 4 August, following a ruling of the EU Court of Justice that found the practice lacked a legal basis.

A fine-tuned version of the Cyber Resilience Act, seen by EURACTIV, tweaked the parts on reporting obligations, highly critical products and product lifetime ahead of endorsement at the ambassador level.

The European Commission will provide €675 million to Tunisia this year as part of its new 'cash for migrant control' deal with the North African country, EURACTIV has learned from a senior Commission official.

Activist Carola Rackete, who rose to prominence as captain of an NGO search and rescue boat, was nominated on Monday (17 July) as one of the two lead candidates for the German Left Party for next year's EU election.

I spent the best years of my life – the student years – in Romania. Unfortunately, it was the Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu and communism there was much tougher than in the other countries of the then-Warsaw Pact, including my native Bulgaria.

The European Commission has signed a non-binding agreement with Argentina to facilitate a stable supply of liquefied fossil gas (LNG) to Europe in exchange for cooperation on green energy and Buenos Aires reigning in gas leakage. Europe’s economic relations with...