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The EU should help Montenegro repay a billion-euro loan to China’s Exim Bank, which it took to build the first section of a highway, to help reduce China’s influence in the country, Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović has said, Hina...

“I remind everyone that in BiH [Bosnia and Herzegovina], the armies of three nations fought for four years in order to preserve their political subjectivity and constitutionality. If someone thinks that he can abolish the equality of one nation in...

MEPs “are lost in time and space” as “they must have read some kind of report for 2011, not 2021,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, claiming the report on Serbia’s progress towards EU accession adopted by Parliament on Thursday is...

As four MPs, including speaker Igor Zorčič, formed a new deputy group in parliament on Friday ensured the governing coalition of SDS, SMC and NSi now has a minority in parliament, electing a new speaker will prove all the more...

The “procedure of temporary incapacity” should be initiated against Croatian President Zoran Milanović, according to an influential member of the governing HDZ Vladimir Šeks, the current head of HDZ’s advisory council and former parliament speaker. This comes after Milanović on...

Sofia-Skopje relations have entered a new crisis following the publication last week of a report by the International Institute for the Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES), a Slovenian think tank. The Bulgarian government suspects the North Macedonian government is...

As Slovakia’s coalition crisis enters its fourth week, Prime Minister Igor Matovič (Ordinary People/OĽaNO) has offered to exchange posts with finance minister and party colleague, Eduard Heger, in order to smooth over disagreements with three other coalition partners. Heger will...

The Pirate Party (Greens/EFA), the strongest Czech opposition party, called on the government and the EU to waive intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 vaccines, claiming such a move could boost manufacturing capacities and secure more vaccines for Europe and...

The European Commission has asked the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) to examine the acquisition of Poland’s gas monopolist PGNiG by the country’s largest refiner PKN Orlen, UOKiK said on Friday. According to UOKiK, the participants in a...

After years of delay, budget overruns and contractual arguments, the construction of Olkiluoto 3 – Finland’s fifth nuclear reactor built by French-German consortium Areva-Siemens – is finally nearing completion. It is set to become Europe’s largest nuclear reactor and arguably...

In a joint letter obtained by EURACTIV, culture ministers from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Poland, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia have made an appeal to the European Commission about the financing of individual film festivals. According to the letter,...

EU countries continue to be divided over whether Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine should be added to Europe’s vaccination program. In Italy, some regions want to move on with ordering the vaccine from Moscow, while Germany and France seem not to...

An upsurge in new coronavirus cases is forcing governments across Europe into new, damaging lockdowns that threaten to delay a much hoped-for return to growth, economists say.

European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Sunday (28 March) that he hoped Europe will have a summer tourist season this year, supported by a ramp-up in its COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

US President Joe Biden has led global condemnation of an "absolutely outrageous" crackdown by Myanmar's junta that left more than 100 people – including several children – dead in the bloodiest day since the coup two months ago.

Failure to properly fund humanitarian aid missions could lead to another wave of Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe, UN officials have warned ahead of an EU-hosted donor summit this week.

With some of Europe’s most relaxed COVID-19 restrictions, Spain is awaiting a modest influx of foreign tourists over the Easter holidays, but the topic has sparked debate in a country where locals are not permitted to travel outside their regions, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Brussels should serve the people, not the other way around.

Portugal's minister of education, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, has welcomed the European Commission's launch of its proposed Erasmus+ exchange programme for the period 2021-2027, pledging to work towards its formal adoption and announcing its official launch on 18 June in Viana do Castelo, in northern Portugal.