EUROPEAN POLITICS

French economic activity is expected to fall by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the French public statistics institute, but insisting that it will not lead to…

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called for an EU response to high energy prices and the US Inflation Reduction Act on his arrival at the EU summit in Brussels…

The move by Northern Irish Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots to suspend import checks on goods entering the territory from Great Britain was illegal, the High Court ruled on Thursday. In…

Aija Kalnaja, the interim head of the EU’s border guard agency Frontex is under investigation by the EU anti-corruption watchdog (OLAF), it was confirmed to EURACTIV on Friday (16 December).…

The Deputy party leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats party participated in a press conference on resident permits with the migration minister on Thursday even though his party is not…

Families receiving minimum benefits or benefiting from the social tariff on energy will be given €240 after Portugal’s cabinet approved the support on Thursday, said Labour Minister Ana Mendes Godinho.…

Renew Europe MEP Giorgos Kyrtsos and investigative journalist Tasos Teloglou are the latest victims of the ‘Greek Watergate’, a wiretapping scandal that has been shaking Athens for months. Sources close…

President Andrzej Duda vetoed an education reform that he claims has not yet received broad social acceptance after receiving 133 letters protesting the reform. This is the second time that…

The Czech Presidency proposed a phased instead of immediate full Schengen membership for Bulgaria and Romania to unblock their admission, diplomatic sources say, but this was not enough. Last week,…

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National are gaining credibility among right-wing voters although most French people still view her as a danger to democracy, a recent survey…