The US will stand by Ukraine until its security sovereignty is guaranteed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on Tuesday (14 May) in a visit to Kyiv, at a time when Russia is mounting fresh attacks in the country's east.

Italian Prime Minister and Fratelli d’Italia leader Giorgia Meloni and Socialist Party leader Elly Schlein are to face off in a much-anticipated TV debate, but the decision has drawn criticism from analysts and other leaders who are trying to get it cancelled, saying it raises questions of fair play and clashes with the debate on the candidates for European Commission president.

The ‘post-growth’ movement, which holds that economic growth is pushing us past fixed planetary boundaries, like the twin climate and biodiversity crises, without fundamentally making us happier, writes Donagh Cagney.

The German regional court in Halle on Tuesday fined one of the leading figures in the far-right AfD €13,000 for using Nazi symbolism while the party struggles to shed its extremist image.

Sweden’s centre-right coalition of the Moderates, Christian Democrats (CD), and Liberals is now facing turbulent waters as revelations about its ally, the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), allegedly running a troll farm, threaten to upset the political balance.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) will appear before the parliament on 22 May to explain details of his wife Begoña Gómez’s business dealings, and respond to recent accusations by the Partido Popular (PP/EPP), the main opposition force in parliament, of a possible case of conflict of interest, Euractiv’s partner EFE reported.

Russia may have been involved in the recent spate of major fires in Poland, including one at one of Warsaw’s biggest department stores, Polish Justice Minister Adam Bodnar has said.

North Macedonia's newly elected president, hailing from the nationalist VMRO party, which won the parliamentary election this month, refused to use the country's official name at her inauguration, setting it on a collision course with its neighbours and Brussels. 

Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday (14 May), Mehmet Şimşek added that the EU and Turkey share “equal blame” for the deterioration in their relationship in recent years.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised as part of her reelection campaign building up new capabilities and ‘structures’ at the EU level to battle foreign interference, while EU countries parallelly seek to review existing tools to maximise effectiveness.

As the world faces record-high temperatures, experts call for implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) to help cities adapt to climate change and improve human health and well-being.

Youth unemployment stings and weakens communities, said László Andor, Former EU Commissioner for Employment. Andor called for new EU-level regulation to deal with the impact of the digital revolution on work.

Ireland is attracting fewer clinical trials than some EU countries with similar populations and economic performances, according to a new report by the IPHA, Ireland's biopharmaceutical industry body. Denmark attracts almost three times as many industry clinical trials.

EU ambassadors will debate lowering the protection status of wolves on Wednesday (15 May), a controversial move that has no scientific justification, according to conservationists, who denounced it in an open letter.

A recent European-wide patient survey study published in the European Journal of Human Genetics on Tuesday has uncovered significant delays in diagnosing rare diseases across the continent.

As protests grow in Tbilisi, EU member states on Tuesday (14 May) failed to agree on a common statement that would condemn the passing of the Georgian government's 'foreign agent' law, which Brussels warned defies 'European values' and hampers the country's path towards accession.

Austria is charged with political electricity, but it's not because of the upcoming EU elections in June. Bigger events are looming only three months later: the national election that might put the far-right in charge of the Alpine country.

French delegate minister of Industry Roland Lescure visited the production site of Italian pharmaceutical group Chiesi in the Loir-et-Cher département on Tuesday (May 14), after the company announced an investment of €10 million.

As the polls for the EU elections foresee a rise of the far-right, EFA proposes another alternative. Instead of continuing with “business as usual” or going backwards to the darkest years of Europe, EFA proposes a step towards the future.

While the high-road approach of the CRMA factors in the social and environmental conditions in which raw materials are extracted and processed, for this strategy to be viable, the EU must follow through and secure meaningful trade agreements with partner-countries that embed these considerations