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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...

Germany is home to the most "super-rich" people in the EU and third worldwide after the US and China, according to a survey by consultancy firm Knight Frank. There were 23,708 people worth €27m each or more in Germany last year, it noted. France (18,776), the UK (14,367), Italy (10,701) and Ireland (1,343) also scored high in the ranking. Japan (17,013) came fourth top while Russia came ninth (8,924).

The EU must help Turkey in Syria as well as honour a 2016 migration pact if it wanted the flow of refugees to end, Turkey's EU embassy has said.

By opening Turkey's border, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to push Europe into supporting him in Ankara's negotiations with Russia's Vladimir Putin for a deal on Syria's Idlib.

The EU's unprecedented climate law will be unveiled on Wednesday, making its 2050 climate-neutrality goal irreversible, but proposal has been criticised for postponing action on the 'climate emergency'.

Greece is now "Europe's shield" said the European Commission, as it shores up border patrols on the Turkish border. But when it comes to Greece suspending asylum claims, the same institution was unable to comment.

In some parts of the world people are used to unpredictability. Europeans are not. Brexit has made them aware of the importance to stay together, especially in an increasingly-hostile environemnt with powers like Russia, Turkey, China and the US.