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Serbia got its new parliament on Tuesday after the mandates of all 250 MPs were approved at a constitutive session in which opposition members walked out in front of the podium with banners and whistles in protest before leaving the parliamentary chamber.

Croatian farmers – getting increasingly frustrated with the ‘demands’ of the Green Deal and trade liberalisation negotiations with Mercosur – could soon join their colleagues across the EU who have been protesting for weeks.

Moldova has found itself at the forefront of a hybrid war orchestrated by the Kremlin, Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Luminița Odobescu said on Tuesday following a meeting with the new Moldovan Foreign Affairs Minister Mihai Popșoi, who was in Bucharest for his inaugural foreign visit.

The high-ranking police officer arrested by Bulgarian special services on Monday on suspicion of Russian espionage was exporting sensitive information from EU agencies and other European countries to the Kremlin, the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.

La Serbie s’est dotée mardi (6 février) d’un nouveau parlement après que les mandats de la totalité des 250 députés ont été approuvés lors d’une session constitutive au cours de laquelle les membres de l’opposition sont sortis en signe de protestation.

More and more lawmakers from previously conservative parties are changing their views on liberalising LGBTQ rights, although Poland is still far from introducing same-sex marriages, ruling Civic Platform (PO, EPP) MP Agnieszka Pomaska said during a BBC debate in Warsaw.

Despite the potential for nature restoration to bring benefits for multiple sectors across Europe, the funding gap remains immense and urgent. With 19 international organisations, we’re proposing a new funding model: “Landscape Finance”, a financing approach that supports holistic, community-driven landscape restoration.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government began structural and personnel changes in the partially state-owned petrol giant, Orlen, which has been controlled by the former conservative PiS (ECR) cabinet until now.

Czech conservatives reject the idea of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party joining the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, Czech MEP Veronika Vrecionová wrote on social media, adding that they do not need someone who has blackmailed the rest of the EU over Ukraine.

Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho reiterated his country's willingness to provide training in using F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine's air force, expressing the hope that these aircraft will be available at their maximum potential throughout 2024 while in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Just as the European People's Party (EPP) has been pitching itself as the ‘farmer's party’, the Partido Popular (PP) has stepped up its public presence to assert that they, unlike the far-right Vox party, are best placed to defend farmers against the “bureaucratic behemoth” in Brussels.

The tighter the bond between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the more Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini distances himself from the 'Ursula majority', using the farmers' protests across Europe as an opportunity to renew opposition to "crazy" European policies.

A dozen locally-elected representatives on the "Notre Europe" list for the European elections called in an opinion piece for a strong but decentralised Europe that is closer to the day-to-day concerns of local players.

The European Parliament and Council have agreed a provisional deal on "historic" legislation aimed at ensuring greater transparency and public oversight of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating agencies.

The Swedish criminal investigation into the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipeline sabotage in the autumn of 2022 will likely conclude shortly after the prosecutor in charge, Mats Ljungqvist, announced that a decision would be made on Wednesday.

US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators prepared a diplomatic push to bridge differences between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire plan for Gaza after the Palestinian group responded to a proposal for an extended pause in fighting and hostage releases.

Plus le lien entre la Première ministre Giorgia Meloni et la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen se resserre, plus le vice-Premier ministre Matteo Salvini prend ses distances avec la « majorité d’Ursula » qu’il veut éviter de voir réitérée.

The European Parliament is preparing to use TikTok during the upcoming election campaign despite EU institutions banning it from corporate devices last year due to cybersecurity concerns, the press service confirmed to Euractiv.

The European Parliament and national governments have agreed to boost domestic production of green technologies, such as solar modules and wind turbines, expanding the list to include nuclear power but shying away from excluding Chinese manufacturers for most public subsidies.

Le Premier ministre Gabriel Attal met en garde depuis une semaine contre les risques d'un « Frexit » si le Rassemblement national (RN) l’emporte lors des élections européennes, faisant du Brexit l’exemple à ne pas suivre.