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Germany was lauded for supporting green spending criteria in the EU’s €750 billion pandemic recovery plan, but critics now say Berlin’s national recovery programme may look greener than it is.

Les prix au Danemark, en Islande et en Norvège dépassent la moyenne de l'UE de 40% et ceux de la Suède d'environ 30% - la moyenne de l'UE de s'élevant à 26%, selon une récente enquête d'Eurostat.

Die Rhetorik des ungarischen Außenministers Péter Szijjártó während einer Diskussion auf EU-Ebene über das umstrittene LGBTIQ*-Gesetz in Ungarn sei "beispiellos", "inakzeptabel" und "ziemlich aggressiv" gegenüber den EU-Partnern gewesen, erklärt ein Diplomat.

Slovakia agreed on Wednesday to sell or donate the leftover Russian Sputnik V vaccine doses remaining from the 200,000 it bought earlier this year once it stops administering them by the end of June. Interest in the Russian vaccine has...

Hungarian President János Áder has signed the controversial LGBTQI+ bill into law despite an international outcry and threats of legal action from the European Commission, Telex reported. The law prohibits any content that “propagates or portrays divergence from self-identity corresponding to...

Poland will reintroduce mandatory quarantine for those arriving from outside the Schengen area, due to fears of the more infectious delta coronavirus variant spreading across the country, Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska has announced. The new rule came into force...

A leaked draft of a key EU policy designed to cut carbon emissions in shipping, one of the world’s biggest polluters, has been described as an environmental disaster for “promoting” liquified natural gas, a fossil fuel, as an alternative to heavy oil. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

A tweet posted by North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has triggered a strong reaction from the Greek government, which is now mulling freezing the ratification of three memoranda signed between Greece and North Macedonia as part of the name-change...

Prices in Denmark, Iceland and Norway exceed the EU average by 40% and Sweden by around 30%. Prices in Finland are the lowest among Nordics, but still eighth highest in Europe and exceeding the EU average by 26%, making the...

Estonia’s bid for observer status in the Arctic Council was shot down by the council’s members – Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, Russia and the US – although it has not been revealed who was in favour or against....

Plans to abolish the Northern Ireland Protocol are “not grounded in reality,” Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald told fellow party members in a speech, the Irish Times reported. McDonald claimed that a DUP “failure to accept rights and equality”...

More than 20% of coronavirus cases in the central German state of Hesse are of the delta variant, putting the country’s recent relaxing of COVID-19 measures under threat. Although overall case numbers remain low across Germany, and in the state...

The rhetoric of Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó during the discussion over LGBTQI+ law was “unprecedented”, “unacceptable” and “quite aggressive” toward other EU partners, an EU diplomat told EURACTIV. The diplomat, who spoke to EURACTIV on condition of anonymity, claimed...

EU leaders will decide today at a summit to provide Turkey with another €3.5 billion to help the country manage the refugee crisis. Almost €530 million will be provided by the Commission by the end of the year for humanitarian...

The months-long courtship of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz MEPs – who are without membership in the European Parliament after leaving the European People’s Party (EPP) – entered a new stage on Wednesday during a dinner between...

Die Homeoffice-Pflicht fällt, wie der Bundesrat am Mittwoch verkündet hat. Es werden wieder deutlich mehr Arbeitnehmende unterwegs sein. Die will die Kioskkette Valora nun beglücken.

Le variant Delta du coronavirus devrait représenter 90% des nouveaux cas de Covid-19 dans l’Union européenne d’ici fin août, a estimé mercredi (23 juin) le Centre européen de prévention et de contrôle des maladies (ECDC).

Die Delta-Virusvariante dürfte nach Angaben von Expert:innen bis Ende August für 90 Prozent der Coronavirus-Neuinfektionen in der EU verantwortlich sein. Zu schnelle Öffnungsschritte könnten zu Problemen führen.

Csütörtökön is marad a fülledt, forró időjárás Szlovákiában. Elvétve megvastagodhat a felhőzet, helyenként viharok is előfordulhatnak.

Der Streit um die Vormundschaft von Britney Spears geht weiter. Die Sängerin sagte jetzt zum ersten Mal selbst vor Gericht aus.