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Government authorities of the capital county imposed nearly €700 worth of a fine on the distributor of a storybook depicting rainbow families, published by the Rainbow Families Foundation. The penalty imposed on the book titled “What a family!” was not...

After the surprising return to Polish politics of former European Council president and ex-prime minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, three Polish polling institutes have published the results of the latest polls on support for political parties. While the results show...

The minister of state modernisation Alexandra Leitão said in parliament on Wednesday that it was not up to the government to give guidance to local authorities on the General on Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), assuming the “gravity” of the case...

Around 60% of the Portuguese population agrees with voluntary military service and 40% favours the return of compulsory service, a percentage that increases in groups over 45 years old, indicates a study by the National Defence Institute. The survey, presented on...

Italy’s economic growth released Wednesday by survey Eurostat is estimated to be “significantly higher than that of the spring”, forecasting a rise in GDP from + 4.2% to + 5%. In spring, Eurostat’s preliminary estimate of economic activity in the...

Lithuania’s foreign ministry has ordered the Belarusian embassy in Vilnius to cut its diplomatic staff to one in response to a similar action by the Minsk government earlier this week. The Ministry summoned the acting chargé d’affaires of the Belarusian...

Spanish police have arrested three people over their alleged involvement in the killing of a 24-year-old man named Samuel, who was beaten to death in the early hours of last Saturday near a nightclub, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has said travel from the UK to Ireland will be much easier for fully vaccinated people as they will not have to quarantine from 19 July, RTE news has reported. “For others who don’t have the...

“After several months of decline, the epidemic is once again gaining ground in our country”, government spokesperson Gabriel Attal told the press after the weekly Council of ministers on Wednesday, adding that only “massive” vaccination could prevent a fourth wave...

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs Marco Wanderwitz, who faced criticism in the past over his remarks that East Germans were unable to acclimatise to living in a democracy, released a report on the progress of the formerly...

Unlike the steel and cement industry, the glass sector has a clear path towards decarbonising its processes: electrification. Yet renewable electricity is scarcer than the industry would like, raising concerns about its ability to meet EU climate goals.

The eurozone economy will grow faster than previously thought both this year and next, the European Commission said on Wednesday (7 July), despite emerging concerns the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus could lead to new restrictions.

Looking at EU member states’ National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) for 2030, the European Union is far from harvesting its full solar potential, writes Aurélie Beauvais.

Luring them with football, Serbia’s leadership want to lock Balkan audiences into their favoured TV channels carrying anti-western narratives, which correspond with the country’s growing ties to the likes of China, Russia and Hungary, writes Marko Milosavljevič.

Oriol Junqueras, former Catalan vice-president and pro-independence leader who had been jailed for his role in Catalonia's failed secession attempt, visited Strasbourg and Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday (6-7 July), after being released from prison with a pardon from the Spanish government.

Italy has promised to give battle after Croatia's request to get EU protection for its sweet dessert wine, prošek, produced in the southern area of Dalmatia whose name resembles the iconic Italian bubbly wine prosecco.

A record-breaking heat wave that hit the western United States and Canada at the end of June would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, according to an analysis by a group of leading climate scientists.

“Local and regional governments in Spain and across Europe are paving the way to the active implementation of the global goals”, writes Carlos Martínez Mínguez Mayor of Soria (Spain), CEMR Vice-President & Spokesperson on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable...

The list of EU-approved sustainable fuel sources should be expanded to meet the higher targets for second-generation biofuels under the updated renewable energy directive, according to the advanced biofuels industry.

Hungary on Wednesday (7 July) rejected a demand from the European Commission and many EU lawmakers to repeal new legislation banning schools from using materials deemed to promote homosexuality.