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Despite government claims that plans for a gas pipeline between Malta and the rest of the EU are underway, an EU official said its inclusion on a list of possible projects to be funded was not yet certain, and even then, question marks over whether funding would be granted remain.

Qatar has agreed to supply Shell in the Netherlands with gas for 27 years, the second such deal with a European buyer in a week, as the Gulf state competes with the US to help Europe replace lost Russian supplies.

The Socialist Party (PSOE/S&D) of acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the main opposition Partido Popular (PP/EPP) would be tied in the polls and have the same number of seats in parliament if elections were held today, according to data...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni adopted a ‘realistic’ €24 billion budget bill at a press conference on Tuesday, as bloc countries prepare for a world where EU deficit rules, put aside since the pandemic, will likely come back to haunt...

The Netherlands will take “extraordinary” measures to reduce stress on the national grid caused by electricity demand and supply reaching similar levels, such as proposing incentives for large companies to use less electricity at peak times, outgoing Dutch Energy Minister Rob Jetten (D66/Renew) announced on Wednesday.

The French government pushed the first chapter of its 2024 budget bill through parliament without a vote on Wednesday amid growing fears that the European Commission could slap France with an excessive deficit procedure in the spring. The annual Budget...

If Poland’s opposition parties unite to form the strongest coalition after their strong joint showing in the elections, they would be working towards reconciliation with the EU after Poland’s PiS triggered a long tug-of-war with the Commission. Unlike most EU...

Geothermal heat, especially when paired with district heating networks for broad local distribution, is an abundant resource just below our feet. Europe needs more of it to decarbonise the building sector and kick its fossil fuel habit, writes a cross-party group of five MEPs.

The Bulgarian government will soon hold talks with its European partners about imposing a new tax on Russian gas transiting its territory, it was announced on Wednesday, a move that predictably angered Serbia and Hungary.

Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday (18 October).

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lobbied Egypt and Jordan for support in evacuating civilians from the Gaza Strip and providing aid amid growing fears that the conflict between Hamas and Israel will continue to escalate. With many Palestinians trapped in Gaza...

The European Commission on Wednesday (18 October) published its first call for industries to benefit from EU funds to ramp up their production capacities of ammunition and missiles.

An early draft summit communiqué, seen by Euractiv, considers the possibility of highly capable AI models escaping human control or being used to produce catastrophic harm - for instance, to produce bioweapons - among the most significant risks.

The leaders of Belgium and Sweden and the European Union's chief executive promised on Wednesday (18 October) to tighten border security and step up repatriations after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels.

Greek, German and British media reporting on a migrant shipwreck thought to have killed hundreds in the Mediterranean has won an EU award named for a murdered Maltese journalist, officials said.

When war goes online, disinformation spreads like wildfire and hate like an infectious disease. As a reporter covering war and conflict, recently, nearly on a daily basis, one is used to a deluge of images and videos depicting horrific scenes...

With a proposal for a negotiating text for a pandemic treaty finally on the table, the work towards a global accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response is slowly progressing.

Latest polling data from France on Tuesday (17 October) puts the nationalist Rassemblement National (RN), with MEP candidate Jordan Bardella in the lead, while President Emmanuel Macron's centrist and pro-European Renaissance party, lags behind as the European elections draw closer.

The European Union "cannot accept" Israel stopping water supplies to Gaza's population, which "clearly" violates international law, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday (18 October).

A deal on reforming the EU's power market, reached by the 27 EU member states on Tuesday (17 October), paves the way for Paris to ditch a much-decried scheme forcing state utility EDF to sell its nuclear energy production to competitors at below market price.