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Elections will take place in Serbia once the country overcomes the coronavirus pandemic, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday (25 April). He said he would discuss the topic of elections with all those who had earlier said they would take...

The Netherlands have floated proposals to ensure a green recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in the European Union, suggesting an “exclusion list” of economic activities like nuclear power, which they believe should be banned from receiving EU funds.

Croatian Agriculture Minister Marija Vuckovic has dismissed media reports that only 2% of EU funds paid to Croatia for organic farming is justified and that as much as 98% of organic farming in the country is fake and will have...

15 new coronavirus cases were detected in Slovenia on Saturday (25 April), more than was registered on Thursday, which Dr Milan Krek of the national public health institutes said indicates that people did not observe confinement and distancing around the...

In one of his first interviews since taking office, the new Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Ivan Korčok, said he considers “the way the US administration defines its relationship with the EU to be a problem.” Zuzana Gabrižová reports...

The Finnish government is suggesting a plan whereby the value-added tax (VAT) paid in the earlier part of 2020 could be reimbursed to businesses. The country’s parliament will receive a government proposal in a fast-track procedure.  Read here to understand...

More than two months after an inconclusive general election, the Green Party could sit down with the leaders of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael next week in a bit to help form a new government, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said....

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday (25 April) commemorating a 1945 World War Two link-up of US and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate.

Developments in the aerospace industry are falling by the wayside because of the coronavirus outbreak’s huge impact on the sector: US planemaker Boeing has abandoned international joint venture plans while European rival Airbus has nixed a project aimed at producing electric-powered aircraft.

The European Central Bank has launched a series of never-before-seen measures to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic but it looks set to reaffirm Thursday (30 April) it will do more still, even if some of the options appear limited.

Air France-KLM will get a state-backed bailout of around €10 billion in loans and guarantees. But the lack of strict conditions in the aid packages announced by the French and Dutch governments on Friday (24 April) has already stoked criticism.

Companies in the European Union hit by the coronavirus will be able to ask for a government loan of up to 5% of their 2019 turnover under a measure proposed by the European Commission, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday (26 April).

The Dutch government announced €5 billion worth of climate investments until 2030, despite an historically high 11.8% budget deficit for this year.

Europe is currently facing an unprecedented sanitary crisis, which will have gigantic economic consequences and could turn into a severe depression. A group of defence experts argue that defence should be included in the critical sectors as the EU renegotiates its next long-term budget that will seek to boost recovery.

Global military expenditure saw its biggest uptick in a decade in 2019 rising to $1917 billion, according to the latest survey by the Swedish Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published on Monday (27 April), marking the first year two Asian countries...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has warned against reopening tourism destinations too quickly, saying Europe should agree on a common path back to freedom of travel, a newspaper quoted him as saying on Sunday (26 April).

Spain’s children were allowed to go for first walks on Sunday (26 April), after spending six weeks locked in their homes, as the country continued a downward trend in the number of deaths and rate of infection.

China sought to block a European Union report alleging that Beijing was spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, according to four sources and diplomatic correspondence reviewed by Reuters.

For Noam Chomsky, the overriding lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that the crisis represents "another colossal failure of the neoliberal version of capitalism" and the situation is made worse in the United States by "the sociopathic buffoons who are running the government" in Washington.

Belgium is to begin a gradual deconfinement with an exit strategy to be rolled out with the key dates of 4, 11 and 18 May, as well as 8 June, the National Security Council (CNS) decided on Friday (24 April).