EUROPEAN POLITICS

With Polish citizens due to head to the polls to vote in the country’s national elections on Sunday (15 October), this week Euractiv’s Beyond the Byline podcast is exploring what…

The implementation of the pandemic recovery funds remains mostly a top-down process, managed centrally and with limited attention to on-the-ground needs, according to local and regional authorities, who are calling…

President Klaus Iohannis will advocate for the opening of EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova at the European Council summit in December, he said during an…

The Netherlands will abstain in the final EU vote on the renewal of the authorisation of the controversial herbicide glyphosate this week, Agriculture Minister Piet Adema (CU/EPP) said, despite most…

Italy can become an energy hub for the whole of Europe thanks to the ‘Mattei Plan’ devised by the government to invest and collaborate with African countries, said Italian Prime…

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) will manage projects in Tunisia under the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), ICMPD told Euractiv in Vienna.  “We expect that new projects…

Kingmaker Peter Pellegrini, leader of the Smer-defector party Hlas, has announced he will pursue a coalition with Smer and the nationalists, and future Prime Minister Robert Fico promised to stop…

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer stressed Turkey’s crucial role in the ongoing crisis between Hamas and Israel during Tuesday’s state visit, urging Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to use his influence…

Sweden’s ruling right-wing Moderates have expressed anger at Stockholm’s Green-Social Democrat coalition, which announced a ban on petrol and diesel cars in parts of the city centre from 20

The Serbian opposition is trying to instrumentalise international institutions, the OSCE, and all foreign embassies because it is preparing for failure in the elections it itself demanded, said Serbian Prime…