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Media investigations have revealed how European companies continued to provide hardware and services to a massive new gas project in Siberia, despite Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its war in Ukraine. The next round of EU sanctions must put an end to this, write Oleh Stavinsky and Zoe Reiter.

US President Joe Biden asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel's defence chief told his troops to be ready to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy the Palestinian militant group.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov confirmed on Thursday that there is interest in the sale of Lukoil Neftochim Burgas, which is the largest refinery in the Balkans and is managed by the Russian company Lukoil through its company in Switzerland – Litasco.

President Zuzana Čaputová refused Robert Fico’s nominee for the position of environment minister, meaning he will have to come up with an alternative if he wants to meet his goal of attending the European Council Summit on 26-27 October. 

Representatives of energy-intensive industries have urged the government to decide on subsidies for electricity prices, which, while strongly discouraged by economists, will be the point of discussion in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s discussions with government leaders.

According to an investigation, leisure centres, preschools, and social services are among the places where former ISIS jihadists are now working, prompting Liberal Education Minister Lotta Edholm to call Sweden’s policy on the return and control of former Swedish Islamist...

Israel has threatened that every Hamas member faces death when it invades Gaza but two accused masterminds of the 7 October attacks are at the top of its hit list.

The EU executive should not fear embarking on a "power struggle" with China to ensure good fishing practices, the chair of the European Parliament's fisheries committee Pierre Karleskind told Euractiv in an interview.

There has been no progress in the areas of wellbeing, access to rights and quality of living for young people since 2018, according to the Youth Progress Index, presented by the European Youth Forum on Wednesday (18 October). 

EU policymakers have been discussing some filter conditions that would enable AI developers to avoid complying with the EU Artificial Intelligence’s law stricter regime. But this political compromise is running into significant legal troubles.

Wars and partisan politicking are seldom a good mix. But that has not stopped EPP leader Manfred Weber from strongly criticising Josep Borrell’s response to Hamas’ terror attack that killed more than 1400 people.

The European Union parliament awarded its annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who died in police custody last year and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran, it said on Thursday (19 October).

Analyse this: On 6 June, we will vote in the European elections. And on 1 July, Hungary will take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, giving a big role to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just when the top EU jobs for the next five years will be decided.

Despite the transition to climate neutrality creating frictions in the short-term, politicians should not change course, investors in green technologies said, asking for clear signals that the transition will be followed through.

Russia has detained an editor at US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for failing to register as a foreign agent while visiting Russia for a family emergency, the broadcaster said.

EU countries recruiting foreign healthcare staff to address shortages, rather than investing in domestic workforce development, may weaken the EU's international health cooperation efforts, an EU Commission official warned. 

"Politicians love to talk the language of youth – as if promising to “connect” with younger voters will miraculously increase their electoral appeal. But the truth is that politicians are playing the wrong game."

Ukraine is desperately short of judges, and is kick-starting a long-delayed nationwide hiring spree to fill more than 2,000 vacancies and vet around as many sitting judges for potential malfeasance.

The European Parliament formally approved the agreements on digitalisation of visas in the Schengen area on Wednesday (18 October), the penultimate step to the file becoming a legislative act.

The Irish government has confirmed it will set up a working group to ensure the sustainability of biofuels used in the country, as concerns grow that tainted fuels are entering the EU market.