A group of women victims of Bosnia's 1990s war pressed charges on Thursday (11 January) against organisers of a rally glorifying Ratko Mladić, the wartime army chief given life in prison over war crimes, including genocide.

Kosovo is set to buy Javelin anti-tank missiles from the US in a move which has bothered Belgrade at a time leaders mull compulsory military service in a bid to ensure the survival of President Aleksander Vucic’s “new Serbian world”.

Slovenian police dealt with 54,017 criminal offences last year, up more than a tenth over the year before and on a par with pre-pandemic for years, the latest police statistics show.

The matter has become a hot potato for Tusk’s government as it seems he has the EU backing but is faced with a divided public opinion.

Romanian ports dealing with an increase in trade flows from Ukraine due to Russia’s war in the country will benefit from a state aid scheme the European Commission approved on Thursday.

Bulgaria’s state-owned Kozloduy NPP has filed a lawsuit requesting €250,000 in compensation, claiming civil activists Natalia Stancheva and Yordanka Kulinska distributed false information about the plant.

Bratislava claims it will join the 48 countries that condemned the alleged ballistic missile transfers between North Korea and Russia to attack Ukraine, noting, however, that it “needs relevant evidence” before doing so.

The European elections will be a face-off between those who push for a Europe that champions equal rights and environmentalism and those who question fundamental rights and hold positions contrary to the EU in the run-up to the European elections in June, warned Spanish Employment Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz on Thursday.

In this episode EURACTIV’s Beyond the Byline podcast takes a deep dive into the agreement reached by EU member states to initiate talks with the European Parliament concerning a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine.

Revelations that members of Germany's far-right AfD party secretly met with extremist neo-Nazis and businessmen in a hotel in November have sparked fresh calls for the party to be thrown out of parliament at a time it is polling higher than any of the governing parties at 22%.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on partners to provide decisive political and military support during a visit Thursday (11 January) to his staunch Baltic allies, as other backers waver on aid.

Europe’s last generation rocket launcher Ariane6’s first flight is planned for the summer, the European Space Agency’s boss said on Thursday (11 January), after almost three years of delay, giving the continent hope for newfound access to space.

The United States and Britain launched strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the movement's attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a dramatic regional widening of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Czech and Polish laws do not allow citizens of other EU countries to join Czech or Polish political parties, violating EU electoral law, according to the EU’s Court of Justice Advocate General Jean Richard de La Tour.

A non-binding opinion of Polish advocate general Maciej Szpunar to the Court of Justice of the EU suggests reaffirming the country of origin principle on joined cases of the short-term rental industry.

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Stéphane Séjourné, Emmanuel Macron’s top man in the European Parliament and Renew Group’s Secretary General, was appointed Foreign Affairs minister on Thursday (11 January), leaving a question mark as to who will lead Macron’s party in the EU elections.

The new French government was unveiled on Thursday afternoon (11 January), with most political heavyweights still in, while the right makes a grand entry with two conservative ministers in top jobs and Renew lead Stéphane Séjourné becomes foreign minister.

Political groups in the European Parliament will try to reach a deal on gene editing next Tuesday (16 January), while experts in the Council seek to untangle the controversial points of the legislation and NGOs protest in Brussels.

Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency, the CEO and president of Norwegian chemical company Yara warned.