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Racist harassment, violence, and discriminatory ethnic profiling are commonplace in Europe, which increases the importance of the role of the media in exposing discrimination based on ethnic origin.

The EU’s new flagship food policy – The Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F) – was released on May 20th, confirming the aspiration of the EU executive to transform the way of producing, distributing and consuming food in the EU and...

Medical curriculums should be reformed if we want to eliminate systemic racial bias, according to students and teachers at the University of Bristol, who stressed that medical education should explore and reflect upon unconscious biases and how these may impact clinical judgement.

While impacting all parts of the economy, COVID-19 has hit young people particularly hard. Nicolas Schmit, the Commissioner for jobs and social rights, spoke with EURACTIV about the EU executive's efforts to address these challenges and avert the prospect of another 'lost generation.'

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in self-isolation, after she was informed having been in contact with a person who tested COVID-19 positive.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the growing number of Belarusians filing for international protection in Poland, doctors in Hungary getting a wage boost as COVID-19 numbers soar, and so much more.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the country will remove borders with Kosovo and the Adriatic port city of Durres will become a “de facto port of Kosovo”. His statement came after the joint regular annual meeting between the cabinets...

A retired professor of the Faculty of Political Science and former ambassador Ivo Viskovic said on Sunday (4 October) that after 5 October 2000, Serbia had chosen accession to the EU as its strategic priority, but was deadlocked in the...

For today’s 20th anniversary of the great demonstrations in Belgrade that were instrumental in the 2000 toppling of then-president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, the country will have much humbler celebrations than on earlier “round” numbers, with...

“When the business climate becomes even more competitive, the United States expects to strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries,” said US State Secretary Mike Pompeo after meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman....

“The European Union cannot be a caricature of the Soviet Union. They cannot criticise countries”, Bulgarian MEP Angel Djambazki (VMRO, ECR) told Nova TV in an interview on Sunday in reference to a critical resolution for Bulgaria, adopted by the...

As Romania recorded more than 2,000 infections for four days in a row until Saturday and 1,835 on Sunday because the number of tests almost halved, the number of COVID-19-related deaths passed the 5,000-threshold. On top of that, more than...

Doctors in Hungary are to receive a substantial wage hike as the country’s healthcare system is expected to be pressured by the increase in COVID-19 cases, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government agreed to the proposal put forward by...

While Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’ ruling ANO party won 10 out of 13 Czech regions in the regional elections that took place in the Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday (1-2 October), it did not obtain a sufficient majority to...

An important court verdict is expected this week for Greece’s democracy. The court will rule whether the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is a criminal organisation. The case was opened five years ago, the party is no longer in the parliament...

A new investment of Microsoft will be announced today, as part of #GrforGrowth strategic partnership programme between Greece and the software company. The investment of more than $1 billion will be presented in a special event in the famous Acropolis...

The Spanish capital Madrid on Saturday awoke to a partial lockdown which came into effect at 10pm on Friday, meaning its residents cannot leave the city limits except for essential trips and work, for which they need to show official...

As “cases in schools” are still “sustainable”, these will remain open for now, said Health Minister Roberto Speranza. This is despite the average number of daily COVID-19 cases having increased to about 2,500 in Italy last week. “We are talking...

Belgian police are investigating the possible hacking of an Irish MEP’s account after it transpired that a derogatory tweet about a former Green Party candidate had been sent from MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s Twitter profile. Flanagan’s account last week posted...

The mighty Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) announced on Thursday (1 October) that once the current contracts expire by the end of 2021, the FFIF will not negotiate with national unions. Instead, the bargaining on wages, working conditions and shifts...