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Iustitia, an organisation for the rights of judges and the protection of the rule of law in Poland, has announced that it is demanding the protection of the judge who handed down the verdict in the case of the Neo-Nazi...

Farmers, foresters, and several politicians are calling for regulation on brown bears as their attacks on farms and humans have reportedly increased. For the second year in a row, brown bears have become one of Slovakia’s hottest topics for debate....

Six in 10 young Spaniards do not feel represented in their country’s political system, but 86% of those eligible to vote will go to the polls on Sunday in the general elections, a study published by the Youth Council reveals....

League leader Matteo Salvini believes Italians are hostages of the Tax Agency and that citizens’ small debts should be scrapped by asking only for partial payment. Transport Minister and League (ID) leader Matteo Salvini is pushing for a fiscal peace...

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.