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Greece’s new minister of health, Thanos Plevris, who was appointed after a government reshuffle, was forced to apologise for anti-Semitic comments he made in the past following a harsh statement by the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece. The...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis openly disagreed with European Parliament chief David Sassoli over the handling of the looming migration crisis from Afghanistan. Particularly, speaking at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia, Sassoli expressed his disappointment about a recent meeting of...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's controversial referendum about the so-called "Child Protection Act", which triggered infringement procedures by the European Commission over its measures targeting the LGBTQ+ community, may not be legally sound but makes considerable political sense, writes Zoltán Kovács.

Helsinki could declare itself an English-speaking city, Helsinki’s new Mayor, Juhana Vartiainen, has suggested as the country continues to debate the worsening shortage of skilled workers on the labour market which could heavily hamper the recovery from the pandemic. Immigration...

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended his handling of the Afghanistan crisis on Wednesday, despite the revelation that the Foreign Office’s own risk assessment had warned that the Taliban could rapidly take over the country in a paper published less...

Austria saw its industry grow by 60% from 2000 to 2020, while the sector presented a mild 10% growth rate during the same period for euro-area countries, a report by UniCredit Bank Austria said on Wednesday. Even for Germany, Europe’s...

Concerns are mounting in France over the return on Thursday of 13 million pupils to in-person teaching as the country’s daily COVID-19 caseload hovers at around 19,000. The hopes for a return to normal and the acceleration of the vaccination...

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Ghebreyesus, German Health Minister Jens Spahn and outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel have officially opened the WHO’s new global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin. “The WHO hub promises to deliver three key...

Poland's challenge to the primacy of European Union law over national law is holding up the release of €57 billion in EU recovery funds to Warsaw, European Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Wednesday (1 September).

“The world is full of radical chic environmentalists and it is full of extremist, ideological environmentalists: they are worse than the climate catastrophe,” Italian Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani told the political training school of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s...

Climate protestors occupied WWF’s Living Planet Centre in London on Tuesday (31 August), calling for a decolonisation of conservation, as part of a two-week wave of protests that have brought parts of the UK capital to a standstill.

Slovenia's EU presidency will host an EU-Western Balkans summit in early October and its desire is to make these summits a regular annual event as a means of accelerating the EU enlargement process, Foreign Minister Anže Logar has said.

The European Commission has given the green light to a new French state aid scheme worth €5.7 billion aimed at supporting the production of electricity from small solar installations on buildings. But because the scheme cannot be coupled with other local and regional funding schemes, citizen solar panel projects will probably grind to a halt. EURACTIV France reports.

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is often described as the invisible killer, mostly because patients have few or no symptoms until it is too late. On the practical level, this means that the disease, although devastating for both the individual and...

A court in the Spanish region of Murcia has opened an investigation against the ecological transition ministry over its alleged role in the environmental disaster in Mar Menor, a lagoon in southeastern Spain where tons of dead fish have washed ashore in the past week. EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Facebook is reportedly extending the testing of making political content less visible in its News Feed to at least three EU countries following positive user feedback.

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers struggled to keep the country functioning on Wednesday (1 September) after the final withdrawal of US forces, with foreign donors alarmed about an impending humanitarian crisis.

The European Union will need to engage with the Taliban but it will not rush into formally recognising the Islamist militant group as the new rulers of Afghanistan, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday (1 September).

The European Union will provide financial support for vaccine manufacture on the African continent with the specific aim of supplying Africa, as it seeks to fight back against accusations of 'vaccine nationalism'. 

European lawmakers from across the political spectrum have united in criticism against the European Commission’s new flagship Forest Strategy, describing it as vague and superficial while flagging concerns that it goes beyond the remit of EU competences.