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The parliament’s lower chamber, the Sejm, has approvedmeasures known as the “anticrisis shield”, which are supposed to take some of the burden off the shoulders of entrepreneurs. The ‘shield’ envisages, among other things, an exemption from social security contributions for...

Fórsa, Ireland’s biggest public service union has instructed members to keep away from workplaces for public health reasons unless required to do so by management. Fórsa had previously advised its 80,000 members to go into work unless alternative arrangements had...

A group of the UK’s biggest banks have agreed to scrap dividend payments, with the cash likely to be used during the coronavirus crisis. With many firms already suffering a major hit as a result of the lockdown imposed to...

The current coronavirus crisis has planted seeds for a constitutional debate in Finland. The unusual situation and the quick actions needed from politicians, institutions and authorities alike have brought the following questions to the fore: Is the current constitution defining...

A common buzzword at the beginning of the century, the hydrogen economy could finally be about to materialise on the back of falling technology costs and growing interest from policymakers, according to a global industry outlook by research firm BloombergNEF.

The captain of the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, in a blunt letter, has called on Navy leadership for stronger measures to save the lives of his sailors and stop the spread of the coronavirus aboard the huge ship.

On Tuesday (31 March), Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) told a press conference in Düsseldorf that he was in favour of using Big Data, in particular location-tracking smartphones, to help combat the spread of COVID-19. Such surveillance could be of...

Now that the EU has approved France’s request to postpone a tax for airlines to help the sector survive the coronavirus health crisis, it is now authorised to defer payments of taxes due between March and December 2020. French airline...

Nuclear war was the great fear of the 20th century and our institutions were built to respond to such threats. But Covid-19 has shown the world’s defence experts that we were blind, writes Stephan Blank.

Former chief of the socialist group in the European Parliament Gianni Pittella has reminded his socialist comrades from northern Europe of their “progressive” roots calling them to show solidarity with those countries which have been severely hit by the coronavirus....

The European Commission is planning to present to EU finance ministers next week its pan-European unemployment reinsurance scheme proposal to support the most affected countries by the coronavirus.

The EU says that its Iran-trading mechanism INSTEX, designed to allow Europeans to bypass US sanctions and continue trade with Tehran, has successfully concluded its first transaction. However, the humanitarian deal actually doesn't appear to contravene EU sanctions.

With the coronavirus pandemic putting the elderly and those in fragile health at most risk, the difficult situation of live-in care workers, but also of care recipients in Europe, has never been felt more acutely, writes Adam Rogalewski Dr Adam...

The European Commission is being urged to publish reports on the trials of an Artificial Intelligence lie detector technology, iBorderCTRL, which has been bankrolled by the EU's long-term research and development funding mechanism, Horizon 2020.

As the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the European Commission stays the course on green policies, launching a public consultation on Tuesday (30 March) to raise the bloc’s climate target for 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement.

As the debate over distribution of EU funds continues in Belgium, nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) and Vlaams Belang parties are consciously spreading disinformation about the coronavirus crisis and spicing it up with 'xenophobic sauce', Belgian MEP Parliament Kathleen Van Brempt (SP.A/S&D) criticised in a statement.

The United States on Tuesday (31 March) offered a path for Venezuela's leftist leadership to remove sanctions in the face of a mounting humanitarian crisis by accepting a transitional government that excludes US ally Juan Guaidó.

European Parliament President David Sassoli has asked the European Commission to assess whether the new laws introduced in Hungary under the disguise of coronavirus emergency comply with the most important text of EU treaties, he said late on Tuesday (31 March).

A number of member states in Central and Eastern Europe are considering “derogations” in fossil fuel blending as part of the extraordinary measures to tackle the economic implications of the coronavirus, the EU biofuels industry has warned.

The coronavirus pandemic presents much more than a healthcare crisis: It serves as the latest iteration of the EU’s inability to handle its own systemic weaknesses. Thus, the pandemic must be understood as nothing less than a clarion call for pan-European politics, writes Joel Boehme.