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Although PNL (EPP) leader Ludovic Orban has been designated by President Klaus Iohannis (also PNL) to form a new government after his cabinet was dismissed by parliament last week, his own PNL MPs are not voting in favour of the...

The Bulgarian parliament banned privately operated lotteries on Friday (7th of February) when controversial amendments to the Gambling Act were passed with no debate. Given that no transitional period has been envisaged, private lotteries will lose their licence as soon...

After signing into law the bill that limits judges’ freedoms and sanctions them for insubordination, Andrzej Duda was criticised by many judges and lawyers. In response to the president’s critical words about the so-called “judicial caste”, judges from the district...

All 22 ministers of Spain’s progressive coalition executive, forged by the socialist party (PSOE) and leftist Unidas Podemos (United We Can) met on Saturday in Quintos de Mora (Toledo,150 km south of Madrid) to showcase the newly appointed government’s “unity”,...

When Aengus O Snodaigh first sought election to Ireland's parliament in 1987, he and his Sinn Fein colleagues were banned from speaking on Irish TV and radio for their connection to IRA militants and were a decade away from their first seat.

Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi Di Maio said he has been closely following the case of 27-year-old Egyptian researcher studying in Italy, who was arrested in Cairo on Friday (7 February). Italian authorities want to avoid a repeat of the Gulio...

The Swedish government is proposing a legislative reform to enable faster decisions on providing and receiving military support between Sweden and Finland.  Although the two countries already have a framework for defence cooperation, the Swedish government’s proposal would give it...

In transposing the EU directive requiring member states to give each parent a minimum of four months’ parental leave, the Finnish government decided to take it one step further, announcing that each parent would have an equal quota of five...

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has hailed her party’s performance in the Irish general election as “something of a revolution in the ballot box,” as the Republican group won 24.5% of all first preferential votes. Fianna Fáil obtained 22.2%...

The affair surrounding Austria’s purchase of 18 “Eurofighter” jets from Airbus in 2003 has been the subject of investigation for many years, as it was suspected that Airbus bribed officials into buying their jets even though Saab had offered a...

Rassemblement National is seeking to raise funds from its supporters to finance its election campaigns as it’s currently facing financial difficulties, party leader Marine Le Pen announced during a trip to Gironde. RN had already raised €4 million this way...

Irish nationalists Sinn Fein demanded on Sunday (9 February) to be part of the next Irish government after early results indicated the left-wing party secured the most votes in an election that leader Mary Lou McDonald described as a ballot box "revolution".

Thuringia's freshly-elected Minister-President, Thomas Kemmerich of the liberal FDP party, stepped down on Saturday (8 February) after his alliance with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) triggered nation-wide outrage.

Exit polls look good for the ruling party in Azerbaijan's snap elections, held on Sunday (9 February). The main difference compared to past elections is that many more young and Western-trained people are expected to fill the 125-seat Azeri Parliament.

Greece will only grant refugee protection for three years as it struggles to integrate foreigners, the conservative government's migration minister Notis Mitarachi said in remarks published Sunday (9 February).

The Chinese embassy in Paris on Sunday (9 February) urged the French government not to discriminate against Huawei as it selects suppliers for its 5G mobile network, saying it feared the company would face more constraints than rivals.

A group of EU member states are unhappy about the lack of information from the European Commission on the trade talks with the US and have expressed their “nervousness” about what could be in the deal, various diplomats and European officials told EURACTIV.

The EU agency for infectious diseases control still considers the risk for the novel coronavirus low for Europe. However, its director is calling for a rethink of pandemic preparedness plans to help ensure Europe is equipped to deal with a virus spread scenario such as the current one in China.

Getting €93,000 for one day’s work is a lucrative business in almost anyone’s world – unless, perhaps, you are a Kardashian. It’s slightly more than Lionel Messi earns and nearly four times as much as Cristiano Ronaldo racks up on a bar bill.

The EU’s statistical office, Eurostat, published new figures on energy consumption for 2018 this week (4 February). As expected, they weren’t good, with the EU as a whole set to miss its 2020 energy efficiency objective by a margin of up to 5%, in what campaigners called the "biggest miss" of all 2020 targets.