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Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin on Thursday hit back at a damning human rights report by the US State Department. “The US government can criticise, but it needs to know that its criticism is only as good as its ability...

Croatia’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan, a summary of which was presented at a government meeting on Thursday, envisages projects worth HRK 49.08 billion (€6.5 billion) to cover six key areas. Presenting the document to his cabinet, Prime Minister Andrej...

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has urged in a letter, for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) three presidency members to engage in the implementation of “limited constitutional change that is necessary to reform the electoral system consistent with the requirements...

Slovenian President Borut Pahor said there was no alternative but to put Slovenia in an 11-day lockdown to protect the population from a spiraling coronavirus caseload. Pahor also urged tolerance and expressed optimism about the future in a televised address...

A Slovak petition entitled “Climate Needs You”, calling for the government to declare a state of climate emergency, has been signed by more than 128,000 people, including various politicians and President Zuzana Čaputová. However, it was not backed by the...

The Russian embassy in Sofia defended the Bulgarian government over criticism from US over corruption and lack of media freedom, as if the EU and NATO country was Russia’s backyard. The US State Department sharply criticized Bulgaria in its annual...

After months of preparations “behind closed doors”, the Czech national recovery plan was finally published by the industry and trade ministry at the end of March, however, the document is not as detailed as it should be, Czech MEP Luděk...

The severity of crop losses driven by heat waves and drought have tripled in the last fifty years in Europe, according to a study that highlights the vulnerability of food systems to climate change.

The Polish national vaccination system spiralled into disarray Thursday morning when registration was suddenly opened for everyone over 40. “This is no April Fool’s,” said a tweet from the account of the government’s vaccination programme, which was later deleted. The...

Hundreds of Finnish companies, high profile business tycoons and CEOs have been seeking tax relief in Luxembourg, with assets managed by favourable agreements amounting to tens of billions of euros. The list of names, revealed by the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s...

An April Fool’s joke festival that got out of hand in Brussels’ Bois de la Cambre park drew a crowd of thousands of people, which were then dispersed by riot police for breaking COVID-19 measures. Some 20,000 people accepted a...

Irish premier Micheal Martin has called for a “reset” of the relationship between the EU and the UK to resolve issues stemming from the Northern Ireland Protocol, which despite being designed to avoid a hard border between the Republic and...

World powers and Iran will meet by videoconference Friday (2 April) to discuss the possible return of the United States to the Iran nuclear deal, in talks mediated by the EU.

EU nations fell out Thursday (1 April) over how to divide up 10 million extra doses of coronavirus vaccine, with Austria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic refusing to help five struggling countries.

Auditing and rule of law mechanisms should be ready to scrutinise how the first money from the Recovery Fund will be dispersed across the bloc in 2022, MEP Nicolae Ștefănuță told EURACTIV.com in an interview.

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.

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...