The nearly 45-metre-high monument has dominated the Bulgarian capital’s landscape for the past 70 years. Still, the new pro-EU coalition government began the process of dismantling it after being motivated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov acknowledged that Budapest had warned his country it would veto its Schengen accession unless Sofia lifted a tax that made it more expensive for Hungary to import Russian gas via Bulgarian territory.
The expression ‘illegal border crossing’ is in a letter that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sent to the 27 national leaders, ahead of the European Council summit this week....
Ursula von der Leyen’s tenure as the European Commission president has been the “worst” in years due to her “warmongering” and insensitive handling of migration, the president of the Party of European Left, Walter Baier, told Euractiv, confirming that the party is against her possible second term.
France will ban the selling of single-use e-cigarettes by 2025, French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau announced on Tuesday during a National Tobacco Control Program (PNLT) presentation, while increasing tobacco taxation.
In the wake of the migrant crisis at the Finnish-Russian border, neighbouring Estonia said it will not let migrants sent by Russia onto its soil but will stop them at the border, Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets said on Thursday.
The EU delegation in each non-EU country is the diplomatic representation of the EU in the territory, under the European External Action Service (EEAS)....
"In the current geopolitical situation, our industry is competing with companies that are directly or indirectly supported by their own governments,” Christian Ehler, lawmaker of centre-right EPP group and chief negotiator for the law, says....
Kyiv says about 20,000 children have been removed to Russia or Russian-held territory without the consent of family or guardians, which it says amounts to a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide....
The initiative came after two reports by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) that revealed a trade in real-time bidding data on EU and US leaders and military personnel sent by Google and other firms to China and Russia....
Pro-Russian opposition parties, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Vazrazhdane, criticised the government’s security policy during the debate on the vote of no-confidence motion they filed against the government....
Since the announcement of the “de-risking” paradigm, the European Commission has presented multiple policies aiming to reduce the dependence on China, notably on critical raw materials and products needed for the energy transition, such as solar panels and wind turbines....
"On behalf of the Ministry of Culture, we make a promise, and I make it publicly here, that we will be the ones who will initiate, so that as soon as possible, Christ the King will be enthroned and become the King of Slovakia,” Štefan Kuffa, the new state secretary of the culture ministry in Slovakia, said....
The arrangement focuses on exchange in three domains: best practices, information sharing and capacity building.
Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
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