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France and Germany accused Turkey on Thursday (15 October) of continuing to provoke the European Union with its actions in the eastern Mediterranean, and urged it to clarify its positions in the coming weeks.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be coming to Belgrade in October, although President Aleksandar Vučić announced the visit in June, following their meeting in Moscow, the Danas daily reported on Thursday. Reasons involve Belgrade’s foreign policy trends. Citing unofficial...

The Slovenian Press Agency (STA) has expressed indignation at Prime Minister Janez Janša’s tweet in which he described the agency as a “national disgrace, an evident abuse of the name it carries”. “Such a way of labelling the work of...

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said it should be looked into whether he personally was the target of Monday’s attack carried out in front of the government building in St. Mark’s Square, adding the attacker had been encouraged by the...

Poland’s anti-corruption police on Thursday arrested high-profile lawyer, Roman Giertych, involved in cases against the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party on suspicion of money laundering, officials said. The move prompted outrage from government critics. But Stanislaw Zaryn, spokesman for...

The Finns Party is currently the most popular among the young generation between the age of 15 and 29, a recent survey published this week has revealed. If parliamentary elections were held now, the populist and nationalist party would obtain...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin expressed his frustration at the lack of progress in the ongoing EU-UK trade negotiations. After having been briefed by chief negotiator Michel Barnier as part of the first day of this week’s European Council summit on Thursday,...

The homes and offices of Health Minister Olivier Véran and Health Director-General Jerome Salomon were searched Thursday morning as part of an investigation into the government’s management of the COVID-19 health crisis, initiated in early July by the court in...

In Finland, the plans are still in progress. Parliament has been far too busy with the COVID-19 situation and negotiations and gathering proposals from business, the industrial sector and labour unions for the national plan to be underway. The general...

As Europe celebrates its flagship educational mobility programme, lawmakers in the European Parliament are fighting to increase the budget for what is widely regarded as one of the EU's greatest achievements.

Romania’s government prepared a national plan for economic recovery even before the European Council’s blessing of the future budget. It does not exclude taking loans, and the investments listed are the ‘usual suspects’, which include transport infrastructure, energy and healthcare,...

According to the first draft of Portugal’s national plan, delivered on Thursday in Brussels by Prime Minister António Costa, the areas of social vulnerability and productive potential and employment are those to which the executive will allocate more community funds,...

A grand coalition in the European Parliament risks undermining the promise of a new greener and fairer Common Agricultural Policy, writes Luke 'Ming' Flanagan.

EU leaders on Thursday (15 October) said they will decide on a more stringent climate target for 2030 at a summit in December, leaving more time to forge a united European response to climate change.

European Council is the same old racked, this Fatima advert just doesn’t hack it, and Finnish PM is shamed over low-cut jacket.

Russia said Thursday (15 October) it would withdraw from consultations with the Netherlands and Australia over the MH17 flight shot down over Ukraine in 2014, complaining of "vicious" attempts to pin blame on Moscow.

EU member states must introduce policies to support their wind power ambitions, according to industry lobby group WindEurope.

The health emergency caused by COVID-19 has drawn attention to flaws in the education system. Limited investments in the development of digital infrastructures as well as failing to update the most innovative learning strategies – especially digital ones – have...

The prospects of an EU-UK trade deal being agreed imminently faded on Thursday (15 October) after EU leaders took an uncompromising approach on the progress of talks.