Speculation is mounting that Ireland will head to the polls in the autumn, and healthcare is one of the leading issues, driven by medicines shortages, a staffing crisis, an ageing population, and a stalled modernisation agenda.

The European Commission is expected to table five new initiatives as part of its recent push towards a more comprehensive economic security strategy, according to a draft economic security package, obtained by Euractiv.

EU foreign ministers on Monday (22 January) will hold a series of meetings with counterparts from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and key Arab nations about Gaza and prospects for a future peace settlement.

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Vienna, Paris and Rome, along with nine other EU countries, are set to argue that meat grown in a laboratory is a threat to "genuine food production methods", a claim a diplomatic source told Euractiv is "exaggerated and premature".

The European Parliament voted on Thursday (18 January) in favour of two own-initiative reports on EU fisheries pushed by the conservative EPP, which drop some environmental bans and focus on fleet competitiveness, effectively calling for a reform of the bloc's Common Fisheries Policy.

After a process of almost 4 years, the negotiations on the reform of the EU’s fiscal rules have entered the very last phase: Trilogues ahead! Time is pressing, so let’s have a look at what is still open to change.

The United States believes Russia will conduct "information operations" aimed at turning opinion in Europe against Ukraine as countries across the continent go to the polls this year, the head of the State Department's office for disinformation said on Thursday (18 January).

The EU’s upcoming CO2 management strategy will propose sequestration of up to 650 million tonnes per annum by 2050 and kick off a controversial debate about the future of the bloc’s emissions trading scheme.

Health workers across the EU are burning out and leaving their professions following years of inaction to handle the dire situation. Following the Belgian presidency’s announcement of a potential EU health workforce strategy, two stakeholders and an analyst pinpoint what is most urgent at EU level.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about a new wave of farmers' protests looming in Germany, Czechia not being prepared to start ensuring compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), and so much more.

Turkey's first astronaut and three other crew members representing Europe were launched from Florida on Thursday (18 January) on a voyage to the International Space Station in the latest commercially arranged mission from Texas startup Axiom Space.

Serbia and other Western Balkan countries need a stronger Germany, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said at a World Economic Forum debate in Davos, where he said Serbia had doubled its GDP in the past 10 years.

In a letter sent to the heads of diplomacy of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gordan Grlić Radman and Elmedin Konaković, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on them to influence the head of HDZ BiH, Dragan Čović, to urgently adopt the Law on the Southern Gas Interconnection, which would connect Bosnia and Croatia and reduce Bosnia’s dependence on Russian gas.

The Romanian government adopted measures on Thursday, transposing into law the solutions reached in negotiations with protesting transporters and farmers during the week, although protesters remain on the streets and have extended their blockade to a second border crossing with Ukraine.

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that Europe will have to work with whoever president US voters choose in the upcoming elections, warning simultaneously against telling people what they should do. Read more.

NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War, rehearsing how US troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia and on the alliance's eastern flank if a conflict were to flare up with a "near-peer" adversary.

The Czech Telecommunications Office, which has just one month before it must start ensuring compliance with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), currently needs more staff and the necessary legislation to ensure it fulfils its tasks.

Slovak Parliament Speaker and former prime minister Peter Pellegrini will announce his presidential candidacy on Friday, which, if successful, would tighten the grip on power of the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico, with whom he has been politically linked for almost 20 years.

The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on anti-money laundering legislation that has been hailed as “a really good step forward” by anti-corruption experts.