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UK military specialists will be deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina to promote security and counter Russian influence, British Prime Minister Boris Johnston announced on Thursday. At the request of NATO Headquarters Sarajevo, the UK military counter-disinformation expert and a civilian strategic defence...

Slovenia’s annual inflation rate accelerated to 10.4% in June, up 2.3 percentage points from May and the highest rate since July 1996. The headline rate was driven by rising prices of petroleum products, food and electricity, Statistics Office data released...

Fuel vouchers for citizens are one of the remaining options the government is considering, having slashed VAT on fresh foodstuffs to the minimum, Croatia’s Finance Minister Zdravko Marić said on Thursday, according to the Poslovni Dnevnik business website. A temporary cap on...

Russia gave Bulgaria until 12:00 Friday (11:00 CET) to reverse the decision to kick out 70 diplomats, or it will break diplomatic relations with the EU country. Sofia’s decision announced on Tuesday to kick out the record number of 70 Russian diplomats...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the launching of power transmissions to Romania was the start of a process that could help Europe reduce its dependence on Russian hydrocarbons.

With the 2021-2027 budgetary period supporting exploratory drilling, the Slovak government has decided to remove one of the main barriers to geothermal energy development in the country, though the Commission still needs to give its green light.

The European Commission has launched investigations into whether the planned public support for the extension of the Czech Dukovany nuclear plant is in line with EU competition rules.

The law dismantling the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court does not fulfil the conditions for the Commission to disburse the Recovery Fund money, European Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová said on Thursday. Asked in the European Parliament whether the bill...

Infrastructure and Transport Minister Pedro Nuno Santos made a “serious mistake” in announcing a policy concerning a new airport for Lisbon, Prime Minister António Costa said on Thursday though he then “promptly corrected” it. Costa made these comments to journalists in Lisbon...

The government will discuss whether to resume domestic gas drilling in the following few weeks, Prime Minister Mario Draghi told reporters following the Council of Ministers meeting on Thursday (30 June).

Finland is the European country with the most drug-related deaths among people under 25 in proportion to its population, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has found. In its European Drug Report for 2022, the European monitoring...

Finland lifted the entry restrictions it imposed because of the pandemic on Friday, meaning everyone travelling to the country will no longer have to present COVID-related documentation. From 1 July, those travelling from non-EU and non-Schengen countries will no longer...

Appearing at a festival after parliamentary parties could not agree to invite him to the country’s legislative, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Austria to increase support for his country in a speech broadcast live on Thursday night. Previously, Zelenskyy...

Romania’s independent media community is feeling increasingly pessimistic over a series of journalistic violations and what they consider backsliding due to political figures, making it the latest in a growing line of EU countries to experience problems with media freedom....

The Lithuanian law introduced in response to migrants coming from Belarus last year, which orders the automatic detention of people who cross irregularly into the country and denies the right to asylum,  is incompatible with EU law, the Court of...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez hinted on Thursday he will ask his left-wing coalition partner Unidas Podemos (United We Can) for support to fulfil Madrid’s fresh commitments with US President Joe Biden and NATO. In an interview aired Thursday morning by Spanish public...

There is no thawing of relations between Hungary and the European People’s Party yet or possibly even at all European Parliament Presidents Roberta Metsola told EURACTIV.fr following reports from Budapest that former Commissioner Tibor Navracsics was working on bringing  Fidesz...

A new row over migration policy between Africa and the EU has broken out in response to the deaths of dozens of migrants attempting to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla last week.

The European Commission lacks comprehensive guidelines on the use of external consultants, according to EU auditors, who have warned of risks over conflict of interest and overdependence on a small number of consultancy firms.

The French government is unlikely to follow through on its climate ambitions, the country's High Council on Climate (HCC) said on Thursday (30 June) in a report containing recommendations for the executive.