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Romania’s telecom watchdog ANCOM announced plans to prepare documentation for the allocation of 5G frequency bands by the end of the third quarter of 2020 with the auction sale, therefore, being scheduled for the last quarter of 2020, according to...

An EU instrument designed to monitor serious cases of disinformation has been triggered following a series of online campaigns surrounding the deadly coronavirus outbreak, the European Commission has confirmed, in what could be the first time the EU's Rapid Alert System is being used.

The latest annual member states’ reports for the shipments of waste regulation show a substantial increase in waste shipments to Bulgaria. The report on waste in Bulgaria comes after Bulgarian MEP Ivo Hristov (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists...

Rock musician turned politician, Paweł Kukiz, has established his own party, which he has named K-15.  In 2015, he mounted an upstart bid to become president and gained 20% in the first round of the elections. This popularity translated later...

St Patrick’s Day parades in Ireland should be cancelled as a means to avoid the potential spread of the deadly coronavirus, a leading international virologist has suggested.  Professor John Oxford said yesterday that, just as the Chinese authorities had shelved...

The Labour party faces a drubbing in May’s local elections as the leaderless opposition party’s woes intensify. Internal party documents suggest that the party, which elects a new leader on 4 April, faces losing 300 local councillors in “one of...

In the midst of the evolving situation on the Turkish-Greek border, the populist Finns Party called on Tuesday (3 March) for reintroducing border controls within the European Union.  Special attention should be paid to the border between Finland and Sweden,...

A dozen Jewish organisations in the Netherlands and Dutch politicians ask the police to investigate anti-Jewish displays of the Aalst Carnival parade, demanding that the Belgian authorities take action against the initiators. The action comes as, a year after sparking...

The Free Democratic Party (FDP) announced yesterday (3 March) its plan to walk out of the plenary during this afternoon’s vote to protest the two minister-president candidates for the state of Thuringia, former incumbent Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke) and AfD...

Viktor Orbán’s daughter is the second most powerful woman in Hungary, according to Forbes Hungary‘s sixth annual list of the 50 most influential women in Hungary. PM Viktor Orbán’s daughter, Ráhel Orbán, moved up two places in the public life...

While EU law permits Hungarian authorities to oblige Google and other foreign advertising service providers to submit a tax declaration, the penalty system in place was too disproportionate and thus amounted to a restriction on the freedom to provide services...

The European Commission must publish its impact assessment on the EU's 2030 climate target in June – not in September like is currently mentioned in the draft Climate Law, MEP Pascal Canfin told EURACTIV in an interview.

According to media reports, finance minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) has tried to break German frugality rules and take on more debt. This earned him harsh criticism from the co-governing CDU/CSU Union and parts of the opposition and the ministry now denies any plans to change the debt brake.

Air France-KLM CEO Benjamin Smith said on Tuesday (3 March) that planned aviation taxes in France and the Netherlands should be postponed because of the economic impact caused by coronavirus.

EU lawmakers on Tuesday (3 March) complained that a visit by eco-warrior Greta Thunberg to the European Parliament is set to go ahead despite a moratorium on all outside visits to the chamber.

The EU's Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, wants to put businesses back at the heart of the European Commission's industrial strategy, with less emphasis on reducing consumer prices. EURACTIV France reports.

The Spanish government, a coalition of moderate socialists and radical leftists, adopted new legislation on Tuesday (3 March) to prevent gender violence and sexual assaults, which are on the rise in Spain, EURACTIV’s partner EuroEFE reported. The progressive coalition of...

A resurgent Joe Biden rode a wave of momentum to win at least eight large states on Super Tuesday (3 March), but Bernie Sanders won the biggest prize of California to set up a long one-on-one battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

A fund originally conceived to convince Poland to sign up to the EU’s 2050 climate target has now turned into one of the most contentious aspects of both the Green Deal and the long-term EU budget.

If von der Leyen’s Commission really wants to be global, it should intervene at the root of the problem instead of trying to deal with the consequences, writes Ivailo Kalfin.