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A British court has convicted a serving officer in the Metropolitan Police Service on terrorism charges in a first such verdict. Benjamin Hannam, 22, was found guilty of belonging to banned neo-Nazi group National Action and having illicit material on a USB stick on how to kill with knives and home-made bombs. Far-right terrorism was a bigger threat than jihadism in Europe today, its joint police agency, Europol, recently warned.

Hong Kong District Court found seven activists, including 82-year-old barrister Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, guilty of organising and taking part in an unauthorised assembly, Deutsche Welle writes. "We will continue the struggle," said Lee Cheuk-yan. The activists were convicted for their involvement in a massive protest held on August 18, 2019 against a proposed bill that would allow for criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China.

A study from the London School of Economics found both political and economic nativism divides far-right MEPs across Europe, casting doubt on a possible future alliance - as proposed by Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán.

Green campaigners have warned that failure by the EU to designate rubber infill derived from tyres as a banned microplastic will lead to significant environmental harm – a claim the tyre and recycling industries strongly reject.

Nine members of the expert group advising the European Commission on sustainable finance rules say criteria for gas, forestry and bioenergy are "a clear contradiction to climate science" - threatening to step down if lobbying and politics prevail over science.

Bulgaria's burgeoning information technology sector is becoming a voice of change – and parties are starting to take notice, as the country votes for a new parliament on Sunday.

At any one time, there are over 100,000 people in prison waiting for a trial - one-in-five of the total EU prison population. These numbers have consistently grown over the past few years and are fuelling Europe's prison overcrowding crisis.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Russia was trying to crease "an atmosphere of threat" around ceasefire talks, Reuters reported. "Playing with muscles in the form of military exercises and possible provocations along the border is a traditional Russian affair," Zelenskiy said. The Kremlin said on Thursday that the military movements of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine were aimed at ensuring national security.

Vaccinations against COVID-19 will continue in Spain over the Easter period as coronavirus case numbers climb again to pass the nationwide threshold of 150 cases per 100,000 people, placing the country in the highest risk level. EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

Russia warned on Thursday (1 April) that a serious escalation in the conflict in Donbas could "destroy" Ukraine as NATO voiced concern over what it said was a big Russian military build-up near eastern Ukraine.

The prime ministers of Hungary and Poland as well as Italian populist Matteo Salvini pledged to create a new political alliance on Thursday (1 April) in Budapest, to the right of the main conservative European People’s Party grouping in the...

Greece will offer restaurants and bars that have been under lockdown for months around €330 million in additional funding to enable them to re-open in the coming weeks, officials said on Thursday. More than 70,000 restaurants, bars and cafes have...

More than 1,500 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired generation will be shut from Dec. 8 this year, Germany’s energy regulator said on Thursday, announcing the results of the second round of auctions designed to cushion the cost of closing polluting plants....

EU states are set to be among the main beneficiaries next week when international leaders are set to authorise up to $650bn of new ‘Special Drawing Rights’ to help countries badly hit by the Covid pandemic.at the International Monetary Fund’s spring meeting on 5 April. 

As Bulgarians are gearing up for a general election on Sunday (4 April), the crucial issue - or risk, for some - is whether Boyko Borissov, who has run the poorest EU country with small interruptions since 2009, will get another mandate.

This week on EURACTIV’s Yellow Room, we are talking about the EverGiven cargo ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal for nearly one week, the impact this had on transport and the economy before it was freed on Monday.

Though their efforts are often overlooked, from cultural exchange to capacity building, local players are a key part of the European integration of Western Balkan and Eastern European countries and need more support.

The new Portuguese framework for the prevention and control of Legionnaires’ diseases is compatible with the flexibility allowed under the European Union’s overhauled tap water rules, a Portuguese health expert has told EURACTIV.com.

France's data protection watchdog CNIL will from Thursday (1 April) begin conducting checks to ensure websites are in compliance with new guidelines on advertising trackers after the deadline it granted expired. EURACTIV France reports.

Europe should support high sustainability standards for clean hydrogen in its green finance rules, argue a group of 24 renewable energy companies and industry bodies in a letter sent to the European Commission on Wednesday (31 March).