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Hungarian Family Minister Katalin Novák has decried homophobic comments made by the commerce chamber chief about a hypothetical homosexual teacher amid outcry from teacher’s union representatives. “I find it hard when my nine-year-old son, for example, is helped up the ladder or...

Czech state attorney Jaroslav Saroch on Tuesday returned the Capi hnizdo (Stork Nest) case of a suspected €2 million EU subsidy fraud – in which Prime Minister Andrej Babis is one of two persons implicated – to the police for...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced his intention to declare a state of emergency in 183 towns and villages situated within 3 kilometres from the border with Belarus due to security concerns. Responding to the announcement, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński...

Portugal has the financial capacity to receive “hundreds” of Afghan refugees, with priority for women, children, activists and journalists, when 84 people are already in the country, Portugal’s Internal Administration Minister Eduardo Cabrita said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Portuguese...

Italy is making its COVID-19 digital vaccine pass mandatory to show on long-distance transport and for school staff and university students from Wednesday, with several protests announced including threats from activist groups to block the movement of trains. The pass...

Alar Karis was elected Estonia’s president on Tuesday after receiving the required two-thirds majority in parliament during a second round of voting. The 63-year-old former rector of the Tartu University and the Estonian University of Life Sciences and a former...

French company Colas has acquired Destia, Finland’s largest infrastructure company from family-owned investment company Ahlström Capital Group for an undisclosed amount. The transaction has been hailed by both sides as a win-win arrangement as it remains to be approved by the relevant competition...

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday described the coalition between her Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens as a “leap of faith” for both parties, as lawmakers endorsed the appointment of two Green ministers to her government. The...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz met with German counterpart Angela Merkel on Tuesday for the last time before she leaves office. On the agenda was bilateral relations, the Afghan crisis and the green transition. The two noted the good bilateral relations...

As almost 50 million French people have received at least one vaccine dose against COVID-19, the country is “on the right track,” Prime Minister Jean Castex told reporters on Tuesday. So far, 48.5 million French have received their first injection,...

Maritime transport emissions must be drastically cut further if the European Union hopes to become carbon neutral by 2050, the European Maritime Safety Agency warned Wednesday (1 September).

As of 1 September, Belgium is relaxing a series of COVID-19 measures. However, most of them will apply to Flanders and Wallonia, but not to the Brussels-Capital Region as its local government has decided to maintain previous measures for at...

Europe may have fully vaccinated almost half of its population against Covid-19, but the richer countries are far outstripping the poorer ones. This disparity, often along West-East lines, has raised concerns from the European Commission and the World Health Organisation.

Food and water were thought to be the main ways humans are exposed to PFAS, but a new study points to risk of breathing them in. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

At least 525 people have died trying to make the Atlantic crossing between the African continent and Spain’s Canary Islands so far this year, one of the deadliest migrant routes in the world, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday, EURACTIVS’s partner EFE reports. 

Facing sharp criticism over the tumultuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said it was the best available option to end both the United States' longest war and decades of fruitless efforts to remake other countries through military force.

Follow the first steps of Michelle, a 25-year-old student from Barcelona (Spain), in Marrakesh (Morocco). She discovers how municipalities in the province of Barcelona joint efforts with municipalities in the Marrakesh-Safi region to strengthen citizens’ participation and promote gender equality...

The EU is determined to prevent uncontrolled large-scale illegal migration movements from Afghanistan by boosting aid to its neighbours in the region, a nemergency meeting of EU home affairs ministers concluded. However, they did not discuss sums or resettlement numbers.

European Commissioner for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, visited Poland on Monday and Tuesday (30-31 August), as tensions remain high over rule of law and media freedom in the biggest eastern member state.

The crisis in Afghanistan may be prompting the EU to have a crisis of confidence and bout of self–examination about its role in the world, but it is not the only one. The same can be said of Britain. Twenty...