Central Europe

Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia want two-year stop-the-clock intervention

"Europe is not prepared for this," a drone manufacturer told the EU-Ukraine Business Summit

Definition will influence who qualifies for EU funding

Brussels will not push citizens to telework, drive less, and avoid flying – measures that had been pursued in previous energy shocks

The F-35 programme was originally expected to complete its development phase by 2012 but only concluded it in 2023

The removal of the “stop the clock” mention caused waves within the conservatives

Campaigners criticise lack of funding and binding deadlines

A broad tax on the huge profits energy firms are was missing from EU executive's crisis plan

Germany wants to have "technologically superior, highly innovative armed forces" by 2039

Ursula von der Leyen's gaffe set off a chain reaction of criticism and replies

Montenegro, along with Albania, is a frontrunner to join the European Union

The push builds on earlier engagement with venture capital firms and a pitching event for defence startups

The move comes amid Russia's war against Ukraine and a global energy crisis sparked by the US-Israeli war against Iran

The choice likely stems from efforts to strengthen the European defence industry and concerns over Donald Trump's Greenland aspirations, an analyst said

Agrofert includes dozens of subsidiary companies that draw heavily on EU funding

Read our full interview with the fresh-in-post director-general of the EU's competition division

Brussels aims to ease constraints on cleaner aviation fuel output

Oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc was extradited from Greece last year after

Several EU countries have already adopted a tobacco “endgame” strategy 

Rome joins Berlin in demanding industry-friendly benchmarks in Emissions Trading System