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The European Parliament and Council reached a final deal on the EU's next seven-year budget, worth €1.0743 trillion, on Tuesday (10 November), agreeing to add an additional €16 billion to the budget, mostly for health and education and introduce a roadmap for new European levies and biodiversity targets.

British tabloids are aflutter this week over the notion that US President-elect Joe Biden could appoint Barack Obama as Washington’s ambassador in London. That won’t happen but consider for a moment if Biden sends the former commander-in-chief to Brussels…

The Polish government's plan to further restrict access to abortion was the final straw that came on top of many other attempts to stifle civil liberties, Klementyna Suchanow told EURACTIV.pl after huge mass protests were organised across the country in mid-October.

Amazon has violated EU antitrust rules in its use of non-public merchant data, cementing the platform's dominance in the eCommerce market and marginalizing third-party sellers, the European Commission's Vice President for Digital, Margrethe Vestager, has said.

Ethiopian troops took an airport in the Tigray region during an offensive against local leaders defying Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s authority, state media said on Tuesday (10 November), as the African Union (AU) called for an end to bloodshed.

Climate neutrality translates into commitments undertaken by various industries, communities and other stakeholders. The European energy sector is already committed to be carbon neutral before 2050.

Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Direct emissions from aviation account for about 3% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions and more than 2% of global emissions. The EU is taking action to reduce...

Lots of things will change after this pandemic but do we know which ones exactly? The ways we travel or shop might be just some from a pretty long list.

Negotiators from the European Council and the Parliament have signed off on new export rules that restrict the sale of cyber-surveillance goods to worldwide regimes engaging in the repression of human rights. However, the text of the regulation on so-called...

Fresh protests took place Monday (9 November) in Tbilisi as thousands of people hit the streets a day after police cracked down on demonstrations against Georgia's recent general elections.

In this edition of the Capitals, find out more about Estonia's interior minister resigning after he commented on the outcome of the US presidential election, Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia signing an agreement to fight COVID-19 together, and so much more.

Kosovo’s former president and ex-political representative of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Hashim Thaci, has pleaded “not guilty to all charges” during his first appearance in the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, adding that “the indictment is invalid”. During...

Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation on Monday to fight the coronavirus pandemic together. The memorandum was signed at a ‘Mini Schengen’ online conference attended by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Albanian Prime Minister Edi...

One of the teams racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine announced Monday (9 November) its drug had shown 90% effectiveness, sending markets soaring and raising hopes of an end to the worst pandemic in a century.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and North Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev welcomed the decision by Kosovo on Monday to join the Mini-Schengen initiative, hoping Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro would join the regional initiative soon. Speaking at an online ‘Mini-Schengen’ conference, attended...

There have been over 10,000 hate speech publications regarding Bulgaria in the Republic of North Macedonia in the last few months. Then we stopped counting them. This should come to an end, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva announced during an...

Polish President Andrzej Duda ratified the agreement on the American military presence in Poland on Monday, which National Security Bureau head Paweł Soloch said will be “implemented regardless of who will be the tenant of the White House.” In August,...

The rapid increase of hospitalisations combined with increasing COVID-19 patients in need of intensive care units (ICU) has mounted the pressure on Greece’s already ailing health system. Media in Athens report that 63.7% of ICU beds across the country have...

Portugal on Monday entered a state of emergency that will last until 23 November, meaning 121 municipalities deemed to be most at risk of new COVID-19 infections will now have to respect a curfew. In other words, 70% of the...

The EU’s decision to impose tariffs on the US in retaliation for Washington providing illegal aid to plane manufacturer Boeing is a “step in the right direction”, said Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Planas as Brussels announced its decision on Monday,...