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It is time to rebuild the EU on the foundations set by Ernesto Rossi and others, writes Roger Casale.

The world woke up a bit less secure this morning as the global superpowers launched yet another round of nuclear poker. The Open Skies Treaty is the third major security agreement that is going to bite the dust - and it might well not be the last one.

Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, now a lawmaker, has been called in for "urgent questioning" by the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) in a case involving the smuggling of 43 valuable paintings out of Ukraine, the state's investigation service agency said on Friday (22 May).

The EU's pivotal Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, presented on Wednesday (20 May), softened its stance on meat compared to the previous draft versions but offered staunch support for alternative proteins, which campaigners said was the first step in the right direction.

US diplomacy on Iran is failing. The result is that the EU can no longer allow this transatlantic drift to continue, and take the lead itself, writes Guillaume Xavier-Bender.

A group of eight EU countries from the Balkans and the east have joined forces to defend the “role of natural gas in a climate-neutral Europe”.

The EU is starting to 'think neighbourhood' before global. But what does this mean for countries in the Middle East and North Africa, asks Michael Benhamou.

Uniper is threatening to sue the Dutch government over a plan to phase out coal power by 2030, in a case experts warn could have a chilling effect on climate ambition internationally. EURACTIV's media partner, Climate Home News, reports.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Finnish populist politician urging the government to consider a 'Finnexit', Croatia supporting the €500 billion recovery programme proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and so much more.

Serbian flag carrier Air Serbia has started to gradually resume its commercial flights from Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport from 21 May. Flights to Zurich and Frankfurt will take off first, while flights to London, Amsterdam and Paris are set to...

Serbia’s defence ministry is purchasing almost 2.5 tons of razor-wire to constructing fences around migrant reception centres and accommodation centres for asylum seekers, according to the invitation for public procurement procedure listed on the ministry’s website, Radio Free Europe (RFE)...

Bulgaria will cooperate with some private companies to create “Rediscover Bulgaria”, a platform for tourist booking reservations, economy, agriculture and tourism ministers announced on Thursday (21 May). EURACTIV Bulgaria’s Krassen Nikolov looks at what the platform has to offer, especially...

Greek airlines Aegean has asked for state aid to help cope with the economic implications of the pandemic, but it doesn’t want any state aid to be tied to the Greek state taking a stake in the company. Minister of...

Italy recorded 47,000 more deaths in March and April this year than in 2019, social security and retirement institute INPS said on Thursday (21 May). By comparison, the number of COVID-19-related deaths officially recognised by the country’s Civil Protection Department...

Boris Johnson’s government performed a surprise U-turn, scrapping the fee that non-EU migrants must pay to use the National Health Service (NHS) if they work for the NHS or as care workers. The move came just a day after Johnson...

Belgium needs to address its structural shortage of health workers and the “essential” need to ensure an adequate supply of critical medical products, the European Commission said. “The Belgian health system performs well in providing acute care in hospitals,” the...

A new vehicle purchase incentive programme to help the automotive sector is meant to be announced by the French government as early as next Monday (25 May). But the announcement is set to be controversial. The initial idea, which was...

German airline Lufthansa will receive €9 billion in state aid after lengthy negotiations concluded within Germany’s grand coalition. In exchange, the government will take over 20% of the company’s shares and appoint two members to the company’s supervisory board. While...

Denmark plans to build two “energy islands” totalling 4GW of offshore wind capacity, under plans to reduce emissions by 70% from 1990s levels by 2030 and become a green energy exporter. EURACTIV's media partner, Climate Home News, reports.

“Around 1.5 million masks, which have been distributed are not appropriate for use. These masks have been tested in four member states and the results are negative,” according to an internal e-mail by the EU Health Security Committee (HSC), seen...