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During a bilateral meeting in Zagreb, Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide emphasised that both Israel and Palestinians needed to be satisfied with US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, adding that Oslo supported a ‘two-state solution’. But what...

Vassil Bozhkov, who happens to be one of Bulgaria’s richest business moguls active in the gambling business has been accused of seven crimes by the Prosecutor’s Office. This happened after Bozhmov accused the state of aiming to take over a...

Czech cybersecurity software company Avast is selling web browsing data of hundreds of millions of people around the world through its subsidiary Jumpshot,  a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag revealed. According to the report, Jumpshot offers information about “every...

Hungary brought back €1 billion of high-yield FX bonds, saving the state 42.7 billion forints (€26.4 million) in debt servicing expenditures, said Finance Minister Mihály Varga. And the unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in December, down 0.2% from the previous...

Scottish lawmakers on Wednesday (29 January) voted to keep the European Union flag flying outside the devolved parliament in Edinburgh after Brexit.

Three years after the EU adopted its Arctic Policy, it is preparing work on a new strategy document. But countries in the region are confused about what the bloc really wants. Last December, the Council of Ministers under Finnish leadership,...

The mini political crisis on football matters in Greece may be over, but problems still linger. Ruling conservative New Democracy party is left with one fewer MEP, while the Sports Deputy Minister and close ally of the Prime Minister, Lefteris...

The secretary-general of the Commonwealth, Baroness Scotland, is under growing pressure after a highly critical internal auditors report into her decision to award a lucrative consultancy contract to a company run by a personal friend. The KYA Global firm, owned...

In a move that has been rumoured by analysts for months, Finnish elevator and escalator company KONE  has submitted a non-binding offer together with CVC Capital Partners to buy Thyssenkrupp’s Elevator Technology business at the high price of €17 billion,...

Following its parent company Lufthansa and sister company Swiss Air, Austrian Airlines announced that all flights to and from China have been cancelled until 9 February as a prevention measure against the spread of coronavirus. And what measures is the...

In an interview with EURACTIV.de, the president of Germany's Wind Energy Association, Hermann Albers, speaks about the sector's struggles, suggesting to allocate 2% of the country's land for wind turbines.

“The position of the Belgian government is unambiguous: the PKK is a terrorist organization,” foreign minister Philippe Goffin (MR) said after the country’s Supreme Court ruled the Kurdish organisation is not a terrorist group and cannot be prosecuted on the...

Nearly 600 European citizens in China want to be repatriated because of the coronavirus epidemic, the EU said on Wednesday (29 January), as airlines began suspending flights to and from the Asian giant.

Greece's defence ministry published a call for tenders Wednesday (29 January) for the installation of a "floating protection system" in the Aegean Sea to stop migrants arriving from the Turkish coast.

With Europe’s climate neutrality target soon becoming law, energy TSOs have launched joint scenarios to test gas and electricity networks against growing shares of renewables. Under current plans, they foresee 300-800 TWh of renewables feeding into electrolysers by 2050.

Quim Torra, the Separatist president of the Catalan regional government (the "Generalitat"), announced plans on Tuesday (28 January) to call snap parliamentary elections soon in the prosperous Spanish northeast region.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday (29 January) that President Vladimir Putin had no view on a proposal that would see his job description change to Supreme Ruler from head of state after a government commission said it was considering the idea.

The UK may be just hours away from walking through the EU's exit door but, when it comes to trade, the journey is only just about to start.

A Democratic push to force Republicans to accept witnesses at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the US Senate appeared to be flagging on Wednesday, raising the possibility he could be acquitted as early as Friday (31 January). As senators...

If Europe goes climate neutral, it will consume more flat glass, predicts Christian Quenett. And the benefits could be huge: simply doubling the replacement rate of windows, in line with the European Green Deal, would achieve 20% of the EU’s energy efficiency targets for 2030, he says.