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Portugal’s PM António Costa has said that the government will put its national plan for recovery and resilience out to a public hearing on Monday (15 February) with the hope of delivering the final version to the European Commission “within...

With Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Greens) and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov set to meet on Monday in St. Petersburg, Haavisto told Finnish media over the weekend that he will not shy from demanding Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s...

Ministers are pushing back against growing calls to ease lockdown restrictions with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab insisting on Sunday that they will not set an “arbitrary commitment”. The UK has now given over 15 million people the first COVID-19 vaccinations,...

Belgium’s decision to ban non-essential travel could be lifted any time before 1 April depending on the situation of the country’s COVID-19 cases, politicians have said. “The measure was taken to avoid seeing our fellow citizens go to winter sports...

Entry bans on travellers coming from the Czech Republic and the Austrian state of Tyrol, which Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced last week, came into force Sunday but were met with strong criticism from Austria, Czechia, and the German auto...

Five regions of Northern Italy have announced their intention to purchase additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines regardless of the state of government supplies. At a press conference on Friday (12 February), Veneto president Luca Zaia of the Northern League said...

Unhappy with the amount of COVID-19 vaccines delivered within the EU framework so far, the Czech government has launched separate talks with British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca while simultaneously mulling the possible purchase of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, the health ministry has said.

President Joe Biden will hold his first event with other leaders from the Group of Seven nations on Friday (19 February) to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, the world economy and dealing with China, the White House said.

Kosovo's left-wing reformists were headed for a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, initial results showed Monday (14 February), handing them a strong mandate for change from voters fed up with the political establishment.

The UK Government has been shamelessly using the Commission’s gaffe about Article 16 of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol in its attempts to avoid the blame for post-Brexit problems and to lever additional concessions from Brussels, writes Dick Roche.

West Africa faced its first known Ebola resurgence since the end of a devastating outbreak in 2016 on Sunday (14 February), with Guinea responding to what its health chief called an "epidemic" after seven cases were confirmed.

The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump of inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol last month, sparing him from conviction in his second impeachment trial in a year despite broad condemnation of his role in sparking the deadly siege.

Separatist parties won enough seats on Sunday (14 February) in Catalonia’s regional parliament to strengthen their majority, although a strong showing for the local branch of Spain’s ruling Socialists pointed to a dialogue, rather than breakup, with Madrid.

When the European Commission announced its new strategy to renovate 35 million buildings by 2030 as part of a multi-billion-euro green recovery programme it felt like a genuinely historic opportunity. David Ducarme is the Group Chief Operating Officer at Knauf...

An unprecedented alliance of Polish environmental NGOs and business associations denounce a lack of transparency and misleading signals in the energy transition. They are challenging the Polish prime minister to publish the national recovery plan as soon as possible and drive the transition to a climate neutral future, writes Marcin Korolec.

Cypriot police on Saturday (13 February) used water cannon and tear gas to break up a rare protest in the capital, as hundreds demonstrated against government corruption and coronavirus restrictions.

U.S. audio app Clubhouse said it is reviewing its data protection practices, after a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory said it contained security flaws that left users’ data vulnerable to access by the Chinese government. The app said in...

In a recently published Parliament survey, agriculture, food and fisheries have emerged as a major area of disagreement between Brussels and the EU capitals.

Russia said on Friday (12 February) it would be ready to sever ties with the European Union if the bloc hit it with painful economic sanctions, a statement that Germany described as disconcerting and incomprehensible.

Lobbying is not a dirty word. But some lobbyists are dirty... On Thursday, the European Parliament passed a resolution highly critical of the human rights situation in Kazakhstan and of the way the recent parliamentary elections were held there.