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The former head of the Police Squad for Fighting Organised Crime, Robert Šlachta, has announced Wednesday that he and his former colleagues will start a new political movement called The Oath (Přísaha). “There is no entrepreneur behind me, no billionaire....

Six politicians of the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia – including prominent faces MEP Milan Uhrík (Independent) and rising star of the Slovak far-right Milan Mazurek – are leaving the party after its leader, Marian Kotleba, attempted to secure his...

Portugal’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ana Paula Zacarias, said on Wednesday that the procedure for assessing violations of the rule of law in Poland and Hungary may be delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Portuguese chair [of...

Japanese video game maker Nintendo will face an EU-wide complaint for premature wear of a joystick controller on its Switch console, French and EU consumer groups said Wednesday (27 January).

Alexis Tsipras, leader of the main opposition leftist Syriza party, has lashed out against conservative Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis accusing him of being a “hostage” of former right-wing PM Antonis Samaras resulting in catastrophic implications for the country’s foreign affairs....

The antiviral drug known as Plitidepsna, which is being produced by Spanish company PharmaMar and tested in experimental laboratories in France and the US, showed a 99% reduction in SARS-CoV-2 viral loads. The “in vitro” and “in vivo” experiments that...

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (27 January) signed a series of orders aimed at quelling rising global temperatures and announced that the United States will host a climate summit in April.

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are raising the stakes to secure EU funding for the Rail Baltica high-speed rail link connecting the three countries and continuing all the way to Warsaw, and may even be ready to block the EU’s €750...

The United States, as the EU’s closest and most powerful ally, will be an essential partner in the EU’s pursuit of open strategic autonomy, writes Susan Danger.

Finland’s fairly low infection rate has made the country a safe and lucrative shooting location for foreign production companies as studios across the world have been forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic. Two American and at least one...

Online retail giant Amazon is to withdraw some products for sale to Northern Ireland, due to trade obstacles that have arisen on the Irish Sea Border as a result of Brexit. The change will come into effect when the ‘grace-period’...

Hikers, runners or cyclists who briefly cross the border during their trip will not be targeted for breaching the COVID-19 travel ban by police services. The Belgian government’s ban on non-essential travel came into effect on Wednesday until 1 March in...

The number of unemployed people rose by 7.5% in 2020 despite a 2.7% drop in the fourth quarter, according to figures published Wednesday by the French labour ministry’s department. While more than 3.5 million people on average were unemployed during...

In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the German Bundestag dedicated an hour to commemorating the victims of the Shoah on Wednesday, during which speakers warned of growing anti-Semitism in the country and condemned the Holocaust’s trivialisation by coronavirus sceptics. “Anti-Semitic...

The European Parliament's legal affairs committee adopted a report on Wednesday (27 January) calling on the European Union to legally require companies to protect human rights and the environment in their supply chains.

Hospitals in Lisbon flooded with COVID-19 patients are at risk of failing to meet soaring demand for oxygen, the head of Portugal's doctors association said as Germany sent military medics to the country to evaluate how they can help.

Authoritarian regimes support one another and learn each other’s “tips and tricks”, but so do the protesters who aim to topple them. The time is ripe for a change, and the EU should uphold the values they are defending.

Out of the EU, the UK is in a foreign policy tailspin. Boris Johnson’s moral leadership is in question and government decisions are tarnishing diplomatic relations, writes Emilie-Louise Purdie.

As part of a wider bid to clamp down on harmful content on the internet, the European Commission has urged major digital platforms to take measures to de-monetise disinformation online.

Portugal’s science, technology and higher education minister on Wednesday highlighted the need to prioritise the relationship between science and employment, open collaborative research and career development in the areas of innovation and research. Manuel Heitor, speaking at a videoconference on...