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The European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg will look into a complaint filed against Slovakia for failing to compensate businesses that had to close during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company taking the country to court, the network of premium clothing...

The EU’s framework to coordinate national economies this year has been shaped by the recovery and resilience plans. The Commission’s executive vice-president for economy, Valdis Dombrovskis, told a group of media including EURACTIV that overall, the EU executive is satisfied with the recovery plans submitted by 23 member states.

Five contract killings related to mafia and organised crime within 40 days have sparked alarm in the Greek government. Minister of Civil Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis handed over on 18 May to the Supreme Court a police report with detailed data...

The Italian economy continues to suffer from “excessive macroeconomic imbalances” due to high debt, low productivity and non-performing loans – problems that could worsen with the withdrawal of post-pandemic support measures, the European Commission warned in recommendations released Wednesday. In...

Ten conservative US-based university professors have approached the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, urging it to sanction Finnish Prosecutor General Raija Toiviainen for having charged an MP for inciting hate speech on grounds of sexual orientation. In a...

The prosecution has concluded its investigation into the Tyrolean winter resort of Ischgl – one of Europe’s main COVID-19 hotspots during the first wave last year. Though it has not yet announced whether it will press charges, five local public...

From 1 July, Belgium should drop all age limits and let people choose when to get vaccinated in order to avoid empty slots in the holiday season, Jan Stroobants, head of a vaccination centre in Antwerp, said on Wednesday (2...

The US government announced Wednesday (2 June) it is suspending for six months punitive tariffs on Britain, India and four European nations while it works to resolve a dispute over digital services taxes.

Germany’s commissioner for eastern Germany Macro Wanderwitz (CDU) has sparked controversy with comments that some people in the region have not yet properly grasped democracy – and this ahead of local elections in Saxony-Anhalt set for 6 June where far-right...

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three Bulgarians for corruption in Bulgaria, as well as their networks encompassing 64 entities. The move was part of the largest Global Magnitsky action taken in a...

The car industry has fiercely criticised proposed Euro 7 emissions standards, claiming the regulation will cripple sales. But this is just another chapter in a long history of misleading the public, writes Anna Krajinska.

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two fellow pro-independence allies on Wednesday (2 June) regained provisional political immunity as members of the European Parliament, an EU court ruled.

In an interview with EURACTIV France, Communist Party candidate in the upcoming presidential elections, Fabien Roussel, said he wants to be the candidate for the youth and the working man and criticised Europe for pitting the French worker against the Polish one.

The European Parliament is taking a close look at China's high-tech present to Serbia, a mass surveillance system that involves the installation of thousands of smart surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition features, MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Greens/EFA, France) told EURACTIV in an interview.

US President Joe Biden said Wednesday (2 June) he is "looking" at possible retaliation after the White House linked Russia to a cyberattack against global meat processing giant JBS.

The European Commission is optimistic that the Pact for Migration and Asylum will be approved during the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) by the end of June, Commissioner Margaritis Schinas said on Wednesday.

Far-right Israeli politician Naftali Bennett is set to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's prime minister after an eight-faction coalition deal reached on Wednesday, Israeli daily Haaretz reports. The deal, ending Netanyahu's 12-years in office, could see him jailed for corruption after losing immunity. The new coalition focused on ejecting Netanyahu instead of other policy, and includes an Arab Israeli party as well as pro-settler right-wingers like Bennett.

EU ambassadors have failed to reach an agreement over whether cross-border natural gas projects should continue to receive EU funding, under the TEN-E regulation, which is currently under revision.

At least seven of Belarus' "political prisoners" were minors who needed special EU attention, 22 European ministers have said in a personal appeal.

It will take low-income countries 57 years to have their populations fully-protected, if vaccination continues at the current rate (63,000 people a day), a new calculation from campaigners of the People's Vaccine Alliance revealed on Thursday. Of the 1.7 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines given globally, just 0.3 percent of COVID jabs have been delivered in low-income countries. G7 nations are vaccinating at a rate of 4,630,533 people per day.