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A new support programme for farmers, during the election campaign to the European Parliament promised by Jaroslaw Kaczyński, president of PiS, will enter into force on March 15. The programme offers monetary incentives for improving animals welfare conditions. For example,...

Generational renewal, young farmers and digitalisation were the key topics of the fifth National agricultural conference, Slavonika, held in Osijek on Tuesday (3. March). ”What I want to tell young people is that agriculture is vulnerable, that the situation is...

In an internal mail seen by EURACTIV, the European Defence Agency (EDA) confirmed that one of its staff members has tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and it therefore cancelled all meetings to be held at its premises until 13 March as a precautionary measure.

A proposed legislation act to curb spreading of the African swine fever and set minimal rules for raising pigs in households has caused a ruckus among the farming community in Romania. The legislation aims to forbid reproduction of swines raised...

The European Parliament (EP) will fight to keep the current budget level for the post 2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and will reject the cuts that concern Spain and other so-called “friends of cohesion” EU member states, stressed Norbert Lins,...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about how some states are responding to the crisis at the border between Turkey and Greece, how Spain passed a new law to curb sexual assault and gender violence, and so much more.

President Aleksandar Vucic said in Washington on Monday night (2 March) that he had had a usual meeting with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci. He said Belgrade was expecting to see the removal of tariffs on the goods coming from Serbia...

A common security policy is everything but just not common. We are still pursuing a common security policy from our capitals,” Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman said during the Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the...

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.