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The Green-left coalition of the We Can!, Zagreb is Ours, New Left, ORaH and For the City parties were projected as the biggest winners of local elections held Sunday, according to exit polls. The Green-left coalition’s mayoral candidate Tomislav Tomašević...

After a business trip to Pittsburg, Slovak Finance Minister and former PM, Igor Matovič, unveiled a €1.5 billion plan to decarbonise Slovakia’s U.S. Steel Košice steel mill, which aims to reduce the steelwork’s emissions by 80%. “There’s no other way...

Russia has published a new official list of “unfriendly states” featuring just two countries – Czechia and the US. According to the decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Czech diplomatic mission in Russia can employ a maximum of...

Poland’s ruling coalition announced a New Deal project for the post-pandemic era on Saturday, foreseeing a boost for the healthcare sector equivalent to 7% of the country’s GDP, with 6% to be reached by 2023. The 160-page document contains proposals...

The Hungarian capital’s mayor Gergely Karácsony has confirmed his widely expected candidacy for the pre-election of opposition parties for the prime ministerial post. “We have one life and one country,” said Karácsony, speaking in his hometown of Nyírtass, putting the...

Turkish coastguard vessels acquired with EU funding entered Greek territorial waters off the island of Chios on 26 and 27 April and tried to ram two Frontex vessels, in violation of international law and rules, Cypriot MEP Costas Mavrides (S&D...

The majority of people in Italy below the age of 35 earn less than €10,000 a year, with half of them still living with their parents, according to a survey carried out by EURES and the National Youth Council presented...

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is making a plea to the supporters of the country’s national football team Eagle-Owls to support them from home rather than travel abroad to attend the game, and this despite it being...

Newly-elected DUP leader Edwin Poots has accused the Irish government of damaging cross-border relations over their backing of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Irish Times has reported. Poots, who has been chosen to take over from Arlene Foster as DUP...

Restaurants and pubs in the UK will start serving customers indoors and some foreign travel returns on Monday as part of the latest stage of easing COVID-19 restrictions. Sport stadiums will also start to allow spectators, albeit with social distancing...

Greenpeace says the formula used by Germany in 2020 to calculate the compensation it awarded to energy companies as part of its plan to phase out coal by 2038 contained favourable assumptions for energy companies, resulting in a miscalculated sum for...

The EU has so far been hesitant to show support for either side in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict for fear of jeopardising the peace process. EU foreign ministers will hold an extraordinary videoconference on Tuesday (18 May) in search of...

Portugal will open to tourists from nearly all European countries from Monday (17 May), the interior ministry said, following months of restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

There is a parallel between the position in which the European Union is today and that in which Ireland found itself in 2001 following the rejection of the Nice Treaty in a referendum, writes Dick Roche, commenting on the Conference on the Future of Europe.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Sunday (16 May) it is "imperative" for Israelis and Palestinians to stop fighting and resume talks ahead of an emergency meeting this week with his EU counterparts.

Europe's carbon border levy to increase the cost of carbon-intensive goods entering the EU could push the Global South towards less restrictive trade deals, ultimately causing more harm to the environment, writes Muhammed Magassy.

The World Health Organization urged rich countries on Friday (14 May) to reconsider plans to vaccinate children and instead donate COVID-19 shots to the COVAX scheme that shares them with poorer nations. The WHO is hoping more countries will follow...

The European Union already has the right conditions in place for a "safe reopening" of tourism in the summer, its commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, said on Friday (14 May), while warning that the recovery of the sector "will still take time" after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Russian Ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, discussed the current tensions against the background of purported covert operations by Russian military intelligence GRU on EU soil, jailed dissident Alexei Navalny, the Sputnik vaccine, and the upcoming Economic Forum in St Petersburg.

NATO member Turkey has submitted an application to participate in one of the EU's Dutch-led military project on military mobility, despite tense relations with Greece and Cyprus. While the request is being reviewed, EU diplomats are split over Ankara's possible participation.