Politics 29-04-2024
Enlargement & Neighbourhood 29-04-2024
Elections 29-04-2024
A new report by the European Environment Agency finds that almost all European cities are turning to nature-based solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Nine men go on trial in Germany on Monday (29 April) charged with high treason, attempted murder and plotting a violent coup d'état aimed at installing an aristocrat as national leader and imposing martial law.
Bulgarian state-owned gas company Bulgargaz, a major player in the region's gas market, is accumulating large losses due to an agreement with Turkish state-owned gas company BOTASH.
As China's big banks pull back from financing Russia-related transactions, some Chinese companies are turning to small banks on the border and underground financing channels such as money brokers - even banned cryptocurrency.
Each day, 21 people die while awaiting a transplant in Europe. With the European Parliament Elections approaching, the European Society for Organ Transplantation presents an actionable roadmap for fair and sustainable transformations in the field over the next five years.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday that she will be running in the European elections as the only candidate for her party Fratelli d’Italia, hoping that her candidacy will help the right wing in the European Parliament and relegate the left into opposition.
Ukraine's top commander said on Sunday (28 April) Kyiv's outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in several locations.
Some 20,000 Georgians staged a "March for Europe" Sunday (28 April), calling on the government to scrap a controversial "foreign influence" bill which the EU has warned would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations.
European Parliament is pulling on historical heartstrings to increase voter turnout in June's European elections, with the launch of its campaign on Monday (28 April), which takes a look back at citizens' experiences with war and dictatorships.
In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU, we are talking about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who will announce today whether he will step down from office or continue to lead the country.
The German far-right AfD aims to dismantle the EU in its current form and transform it into a confederation of nation-states with limited power, the party stated during its EU election kick-off on Saturday (27 April).
German centre-right party CDU (EPP) would hide their lead candidate for the European elections, Ursula von der Leyen, FDP leader Christian Lindner said at a party convention in Berlin.
Senior US officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find "credible or reliable" Israel's assurances that it is using US-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal memo..
Authorities in Latvia called on residents to use Saturday's annual "Big Clean-up Day" to turn basements into air-raid shelters, with many in the Baltic country concerned they could be Russia's next target.
Italy on Saturday (27 April) summoned Russia's ambassador after Moscow announced it was putting a subsidiary of Italian heating firm Ariston Thermo Group under the "temporary management" of state energy giant Gazprom.
French President Emmanuel Macron is ready to "open the debate" about the role of nuclear weapons in a common European defence, he said in an interview published Saturday (27 April).
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian attack on his country's energy sector on Saturday (27 April) had targeted gas facilities important for supply to the European Union.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday (26 April) called for additional air defense systems to be sent to Kyiv to help protect against Russian strikes, adding that a pause in UK funding had helped Moscow seize the initiative.
Columbia University's embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday (26 April) as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school.
Tensions flared in front of Paris' prestigious Sciences Po university over the war in Gaza on Friday (26 April) as pro-Israeli protesters came to challenge pro-Palestinian students occupying the building.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will not be using TikTok in her campaign for June's EU elections, "in view of security concerns," her campaign chief spokesperson said, despite her aim to reach citizens with an innovative and personal touch.
The omission of emails from the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs to Bolt and other mobility tech firms, demanded in a freedom of information (FOI) request, was due to human error, the Ministry's Deputy Secretary General Sandra Särav told Estonian news agency ERR.
The Berlin economy and environment ministries, both held by the Greens, have been accused of mishandling the shutdown of the country’s last three nuclear power plants during the 2022 energy crisis.
The Critical Medicines Alliance, launched in Brussels on Wednesday (April 24), is the sign of a "wake-up call" towards a stronger pharmaceutical industry in the EU, French Minister for Industry and Energy Roland Lescure told Euractiv.
