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Slovenia is currently conducting negotiations with Italy, Austria, and Hungary regarding an agreement to form joint police patrols along its border with Croatia, Slovenian Interior Minister Aleš Hojs told Slovenia’s state television RTVSLO on Thursday. Plans to introduce joint police...

Bulgaria will be in a 10-day lockdown starting from Monday, announced Health Minister Kostadin Angelov on Thursday. This comes three weeks after some measures were eased. However ,from Monday schools, kindergartens, gyms, and restaurants will be closed again. Only pharmacies,...

Moscow has warned BiH that getting closer to NATO membership would mean choosing a side in the current Russian confrontation with the West and an act of hostility to Russia, which would necessarily have consequences, the Russian embassy in Sarajevo...

Fraud was detected at the Slovak agricultural paying agency (PPA) in 60% of the 110 cases worth €47 million reviewed by PwC, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Ján Mičovský (Ordinary People and Independent Personalities) announced at a press conference. The...

The Czech Senate has rejected a proposal that grocery stores with an area of more than 400 square metres be required to sell a minimum quota of Czech food on Thursday. The relevant draft amendment to the food law is...

Zrzutka.pl, Poland’s leading crowdfunding service, has unveiled what it believes to be the world’s first “deposit” card, allowing users to make contactless payments without a terminal. The Polish name for the new invention, “karta wpłatnicza” translates as deposit card and...

After quitting the European People’s Party’s (EPP) group in the European Parliament at the beginning of March, Prime Minister Orbán’s Fidesz party left the political group altogether on Thursday. The short resignation letter was posted on social media by Hungarian...

Greek MEP Petros Kokkalis has asked why a German EU lawmaker from the European People’s Party (EPP) has seen Greece’s draft recovery plan while Greeks themselves – except the government – have not seen anything yet. “Fantastic news Markus Ferber....

Threats against Sweden both from abroad and from domestic extremist fractions have increased, according to the annual report of the Swedish Security Police (Säpo). According to the report published Thursday, the coronavirus pandemic has created fertile ground for extremist groups...

A cross-parliamentary committee has recommended Finland increase its involvement and participation in crisis management operations, particularly in Africa. Approved by a majority of parties including the nationalist Finns Party, the “Effective crisis management” report published on Wednesday lists climate change,...

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin thanked the US for its “deep appreciation of the importance of the balances and nuances” and unwavering support of Northern Ireland post-Brexit during the annual St. Patrick’s Day meeting with US President Joe Biden held...

Although the next meeting was planned for the end of March, Belgium’s Consultative Committee will meet this Friday to discuss the alarmingly rapid spike in COVID cases in the country. But instead of relaxation, tougher measures seem to be coming....

Germany will resume administering AstraZeneca’s vaccine today, the country’s health minister Jens Spahn said, after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) stated that its health benefits outweighed any risks it posed. Spahn said on Thursday that suspending the vaccine had been...

German EU lawmaker Udo Bullmann has told EURACTIV.com that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline needs a “European” perspective to correct the “mistake” of the past. He also explained the reasons behind Berlin’s logic regarding this controversial pipeline based on foreign...

The first high-level US-China talks of the Biden administration got off to a fiery start on Thursday (18 March), with both sides leveling sharp rebukes of the others’ policies in a rare display that underscored the level of bilateral tension.

A waste-to-energy plant in the Norwegian capital could become one of the world’s first carbon negative incinerators, pending a decision from the European Commission to fund a CO2 capture facility there. Environmentalists, for their part, are yet to be convinced.

The practice of multinational companies sponsoring the governments which hold the EU's rotating presidency, while lobbying the same ministers, is a rotten practice that must stop, write Vicky Cann, Suzy Sumner, and Manuel Araujo.

The European Commission’s plan to implement the legally non-binding principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights leads us towards a Social Union rather than a Social Europe. This must be avoided, write a group of EU industry and employer groups.

The European Court of Auditors is examining almost half a billion euro worth of contracts the European Commission has concluded with external consultants to assess whether there is fair value for money in the contracts, a spokesperson of the institution told EURACTIV on Thursday (18 March).

Problems with vaccines just won’t go away, D66 is here to slay and it was tricky to celebrate St Patrick’s Day.