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Czech President Miloš Zeman is leaving for Warsaw on Monday to meet with his Visegrad 4 counterparts to celebrate the group’s 30th anniversary and take part in the “last minute” 17+1 summit with China, set to take place on Tuesday....

Opposition parties should join forces as the government “has failed the test” in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, and Poles cannot count on the state’s support, Centrist Civic Platform (PO) leader Borys Budka told a party conference. It is...

The regional government in Catalonia (The “Generalitat”) is considering not publishing the preliminary results of local elections due to be held on 14 February if serious irregularities persist in thousands of polling stations across the region. The director of Citizen...

Italian prime minister-designate, former European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, will begin on Monday his second round of consultations with parties in parliament to try to form a new government. At the moment, Draghi is backed by the centre-left...

Finnish Green MEP Alviina Alametsä, who became an MEP in January after an additional seat was allocated to Finland following Brexit, says she has already been belittled, discriminated against, and sexually harassed since becoming an MEP. I am shocked about...

A new proposal in Ireland could grant the country’s competition authority widespread new surveillance powers in a bid to double down on the operation of cartels in the country. The proposed Competition (Amendments) Bill 2021 could include ‘provisions to wiretap...

Belgium’s Consultative Committee decided to extend the current coronavirus measures until 1 April, with health experts excluding the possibility of an earlier reopening of the hospitality sector. The extension was implemented “in order to have the necessary legal certainty also...

France started distributing the AstraZeneca vaccine on Saturday, which will first be delivered to healthcare professionals, and then to people between the age of 50 and 64. The government’s plan of action is in line with the French high health...

Berlin has submitted a record annual budget of €53.03 billion to NATO up 3.2% from the previous year (51.4 billion), according to the German Press Agency (dpa). However, this figure is 1.57% of the country’s GDP, and thus well below...

Countries should first look at their own backyards and ensure the democratic rights and freedoms are observed at home before they do any “navalnying”, the Russian embassy in Bulgaria said after Bulgarian authorities condemned the arrest and conviction of Russian...

European Central Bank (ECB) chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday (7 February) rejected calls to cancel debts run up by eurozone members to buttress their economies during the COVID-19 crisis.

Libya embarked Saturday (6 February) on a new phase of its post-Gaddafi transition after an interim executive was selected to lead the country until December elections following a decade of chaos.

It is time for the European Central Bank to cancel a large of the public debt it holds, say more than a hundred economists from across Europe including Aurore Lalucq, Nicolas Dufrêne, Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran, and Laurence Scialom.

The European Commission aims to ramp up production of COVID-19 vaccines through “voluntary” sharing of know-how among pharma companies, EU sources said, emphasising that patents are not an obstacle to do that.

The Portuguese presidency of the EU has pitched a new text on the controversial ePrivacy regulation, focusing on the processing of communications metadata and data stored on end-user equipment, according to the latest proposal, obtained by EURACTIV.

The proportion of electric vehicles sold in the EU more than trebled to 10.5% in 2020 new figures reveal, a sign that EU and national incentives to stimulate demand for zero-emission vehicles are bearing fruit.

Hungarian health authorities have approved Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, the government said Sunday (7 February), with 40,000 doses of the jab already to be given.

As the political divide over the Mercosur trade deal widens, its advocates argue that shelving it will damage the EU’s credibility. The opposite is true, writes Perrine Fournier.

After a defeating trip to Moscow, EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell on Sunday (7 February) tried to explain and justify his controversial trip to Moscow but admitted that relations between the EU and Russia have hit rock bottom. Borrell’s controversial...

Lawmakers in the European Parliament on Friday (5 February) backed a levy on carbon-intensive products imported into Europe, calling on the European Commission to introduce a so-called "carbon border adjustment mechanism" as quickly as possible.