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Bulgaria has joined the US-led international coalition against Huawei, while Prime Minister Boyko Borissov signed a framework agreement on Friday (23 October) with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at an impromptu ceremony via video conference on the security of...

Czech Health Minister Roman Prymula is ready to resign after he was photographed by popular Czech tabloid Blesk attending a private meeting in a restaurant, breaching his country’s tighter coronavirus measures, which he himself imposed. Prymula denies any wrongdoing but...

Sunday marked the fourth straight day of protests across Poland against Thursday’s Constitutional Tribunal ruling which imposed a near-total ban on abortion by holding that laws currently permitting abortion due to foetal defects are unconstitutional. On Friday night (23 October),...

The hacking of private psychotherapy centre Vastaamo last week has allowed sensitive and secret information of presumably tens of thousands of clients, including children, to land in the hands of cybercriminals, sending shockwaves across the nation and revealing loopholes in...

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will stay in London for an extra three days of trade talks with UK counterpart David Frost in a move that has increased hopes that an agreement may be within reach. Barnier had been due...

The Brussels regional government announced a range of new measures over the weekend aimed at countering the rise in COVID-19 infections. With the new regional measures, Brussels went further than Wallonia has done. Among the measures, valid from Monday until...

Thousands of people, including several elected officials, marched on Sunday (25 October) in Paris in support of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, as new fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia broke out over the weekend and Iranian troops were deployed along the...

With just over a week until the US presidential elections, Berlin is hoping for a quick “new beginning in the transatlantic partnership” after the polls – no matter who wins, German foreign minister Heiko Maas said over the weekend. Regardless...

The backlash against President Emmanuel Macron's comments on Islam intensified Sunday (25 October), with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan again urging him to have "mental checks" and protests in Muslim-majority nations.

The leader of the European People’s Party, Donald Tusk, said the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov had “confessed" to him about a scandal with leaked photos allegedly revealing his hidden wealth. Tusk revealed no details but said that what he had heard sounded like “a crime movie”.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have again agreed to respect a "humanitarian ceasefire" in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, effective Monday (26 October), the US State Department announced.

Turkey has extended the seismic survey work of its Oruc Reis ship in a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean until November 4 – a move that Greece condemned on Sunday (25 October) as "illegal".

Mid-century climate targets are feasible but decisive action needs to be taken in the 2020s to put the world onto the right trajectory, writes Sandrine Dixson-Declève.

The discovery in recent years of huge natural gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean has whetted the appetite of nearby countries but exacerbated geopolitical tensions between Turkey and its neighbours.

The 2008 financial and economic crisis is still a vivid memory for many of us. With fewer jobs and opportunities available, a whole generation of young people found themselves facing an uncertain future. Years later, the profound and lasting impact...

The use of satellite technology to track and halt real-time cases of deforestation in a country like Malaysia could become a “blueprint” for ending deforestation in the Amazon, writes Daniel Mackisack.

In the past year, NATO member has been spending more money on defence again, after several rebukes from Washington. But not enough to please the current occupant of the White House. Just ahead of the autumn NATO defence ministers meeting,...

European Union environment ministers struck a deal on Friday (23 October) to make the bloc's 2050 net-zero emissions target legally binding, but left a decision on a 2030 emissions-cutting target for leaders to discuss in December.

Though Mcdonalds' French ad campaign continues to be 'Come as you are', 114 employee testimonials collected recently in France tell a different story. They include racism, sexism, harassment and even sexual violence. EURACTIV France reports.

African civil society groups want to be part of drawing up a new ‘strategic partnership’ between the EU and the African Union, in a bid to overhaul a process which many believe is deeply dysfunctional.