EUROPEAN POLITICS

Lega leader, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen have confirmed at an event in Rome that they will not support European Commission President Ursula…

Madrid will continue to “firmly support” Ukraine, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) reiterated in a telephone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday. Sources in the Spanish executive told…

A pro-EU former Slovak foreign minister scored a surprise victory in the first round of a presidential election on Saturday (23 March), setting up a run-off vote with a key…

Slovakia will on Saturday (23 March) hold the first round of a presidential election that is a battle between the Central European country’s Russia-leaning ruling camp and a pro-Ukraine opposition-backed…

The French, parliament reached an agreement on Thursday (21 March) to ban so-called ‘puffs’, single-use electronic cigarettes. The prohibition will be expected to come into force, at the end of…

The French Senate has rejected by a large majority the trade agreement between the EU and Canada, provisionally in force since 20

Two thirds of the German electorate have a high or very high interest in the European elections, according to a new survey conducted three months before the vote. Interest in…

While other political forces have already launched their campaigns for June’s EU elections, the hard-right conservative faction has just started and is eyeing collaboration with the centre-right European People’s Party.…

Belgium’s labour costs rose by almost double the average EU increase, resulting from the combination of inflation, wage indexation, and labour shortages, according to Eurostat studies published in recent years…

Sweden’s climate policies are leading to a short-term increase in emissions and putting the country on a path to miss its 20