EUROPEAN POLITICS
The Polish Prosecutor’s Office will not allow the Ukrainian side to join the investigation of last week’s incident in Przewodów near the Ukrainian border, where a likely-Ukrainian air defence missile hit and killed two people. Polish politicians earlier declared they…
To face current major challenges, democracy must be strengthened at a European level, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said during the ceremony of the Parliament’s 70-year anniversary on Tuesday. The European Parliament celebrated its 70th anniversary on Tuesday in…
The European cap on gas prices is essential, otherwise, the funds invested will only feed speculation, said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who hopes common solutions will soon arrive from the EU. The Italian government approved a €35 billion economic…
A bill to make abortion legal when the life of the mother is at risk in a country where abortion laws are the strictest in Europe was tabled for the first time in Maltese parliament on Monday. Under the current…
People temporarily out of work face having the length during which unemployment insurance compensation applies slashed by 25% from February next year, Labour Minister Olivier Dussopt said on Monday, angering French unions and the political left. At a press conference…
Lack of trust, economic instability, and spying on journalists all make the press environment in Greece disturbing and challenging, the President of the European Federation of Journalists, Maja Sever told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview. EURACTIV.gr spoke to Sever after…
Polish support towards Ukraine remains unwavering even though the explosion at the Polish village last week was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile, a new survey found. The poll was conducted by the United Surveys for Dziennik Gazeta…
The German coalition’s proposal to overhaul the unemployment benefits system has caused fierce debate, with the conservative CDU and employer’s associations warning that the proposed benefits would be too high and not incentivise work. The proposal, which was one of…
Austria, whose long-time reliance on Russian gas made it one of the EU’s most dependent countries before the war in Ukraine, has now seen its gas imports from the country dwindle to 21%, the government informed. Austria’s long-time dependence began…
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has promised Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin he will help convince Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who along with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the only two states left to ratify Finland’s NATO membership request. Poland,…
Italy, which was hard hit by the first pandemic wave in 2020, is again seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases and the number of occupied intensive care unit beds in the middle of the winter flu season. According to the…
There is significant momentum to find a compromise on a new EU pact on migration and asylum, the president of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, told EURACTIV in an interview. The New…