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Croatia has the sovereign right to declare an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Adriatic Sea, the chairman of BiH’s inter-ethnic three-man presidency, Milorad Dodik, said on Saturday, adding that this would not deny the rights of BiH. Dodik’s statement...

Hundreds of people protested in front of the health ministry headquarters, demanding healthcare reform and the resignation of the health minister, following a fire that killed five people in a Bucharest hospital. The government promised a quick investigation into the...

František Imrecze, the former chief of the country’s financial administration nominated by the former government of Smer-SD, has been detained by Slovakia’s National Criminal Agency as part of its operation called “The toll-gate keeper” (Mýtnik). Several others have been detained...

Czechia contacted two vaccine manufacturers and tried to make a separate purchase deal of the COVID-19 vaccine in “an attempt to see if it is possible to circumvent the system,” former Health Minister and current advisor to the Czech PM,...

In 2020, Poland saw the most deaths since World War II and the fewest births since 2003, the country’s statistical office (GUS) reported, which goes against the predictions made in Poland and other European countries last Spring that more children...

Four Italian MEPs from the Democratic Party (PSE) – Piero Bartolo, Brando Benifei, Pierfrancesco Majorino, and Alessandra Moretti – who were checking the Croatian-Bosnian border near Bojna, where violence and arbitrary rejections of migrants were reported by NGOs and media...

AstraZeneca will increase its coronavirus vaccine deliveries to the EU by 30%, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday (31 January) as the bloc sought to claw back time lost rolling out the jabs.

Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids.

Today we often see an EU where the principle of subsidiarity is only a theoretical concept and regional autonomy is not taken into account. It is time for the Commission to step up its efforts and a first step could be to give the Minority Safepack initiative the attention it deserves, writes Harry Jansson.

Current Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) is leading the polls with 16% among the favourites to become the country’s next president, according to a new survey conducted in January by pollster Taloustuktimus, showing that her being at the helm...

The Commission has ‘lessons to learn’ following the EU executive’s backtracking on plans to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday. On Friday, it appeared that the...

The UK will on Monday apply to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an eleven-country free trade area which includes Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Canada. “In future, it’s going to be Asia-Pacific countries in particular where the big markets are, where growing...

German state leaders and local officials called for a better-defined vaccination plan ahead of a meeting on Monday between EU, national, and state leaders, as well as members of the pharmaceutical industry. The so-called ‘vaccination summit’ was called to address...

The European Union must step up its military and security assistance for Mozambique as the southeast African country struggles to cope with a growing threat of jihadist insurgency, Portugal’s foreign minister, Augusto Santos Silva, has told EURACTIV.

Any attempt to distance the European Union from NATO would only deepen the divisions among EU member states, Portugal's defence minister, João Gomes Cravinho, has said, arguing instead that the mechanisms of cooperation between the two partners should be improved.

The European Commission needs to have further discussions with Beijing and other trading partners about its upcoming carbon border levy, a senior Chinese diplomat said at a EURACTIV event on Thursday (28 January).

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said he deplored the "widespread detentions and disproportionate use of force" against protesters and journalists in Russia on Sunday (31 January).

Fresh polls predict a virtual “technical tie” between the two main pro-independence parties in the elections to be held in Catalonia on 14 February. Socialist candidate and Spain's former health minister Salvador Illa is predicted to come third. EURACTIV's partner EFE reports.

The European Union on Friday (29 January) backtracked on a threat to restrict exports of coronavirus shots to Northern Ireland in its growing row with Britain, as the WHO warned against "vaccine nationalism".

Principles are put to the test at times of trouble, both for people and for countries. It is when faced with uncertainty that our true nature emerges. How we face the COVID-19 crisis shows our trust in the principles inspiring the European Union.