EUROPEAN POLITICS

Swedish EU official Johan Floderus has been imprisoned in Iran for over 500

With a little over a month to go before the national elections, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (ODIHR) has deployed a Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to…

Led by MEP Petar Vitanov (S&D), supporters of Bulgaria’s pro-Russian President Rumen Radev have launched a referendum to keep 3 March as the country’s national holiday in response to the…

Serbia is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of foreign workers, with numbers for the first six months of 20

Sweden will likely join the NATO alliance this autumn, Jakub Landovský, the Czech ambassador to NATO, has recently said. Sweden’s bid to join NATO, a joint one with Finland before…

Together for Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont (JxCAT) met with Sumar candidate Yolanda Díaz at the EU Parliament on Monday to fine-tune positions between Puigdemont’s separatist party and a future left-wing…

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The number of migrants lodging asylum applications in the EU has jumped 28% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, official figures released…

The UK faces a “real risk of being sidelined” on global affairs due to Brexit, Lord Peter Ricketts, who chairs the House of Lords European Affairs Committee, told EURACTIV in…

Real immigration policy cannot be achieved without reform of the French Constitution, President of the French Senate Gérard Larcher (Les Républicains) told Le Parisien on Saturday. While the government is…