Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among at least five people working for celebrity chef José Andrés' NGO, World Central Kitchen, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Monday (1 April), a Gaza government media official said.

Humanitarian aid programmes need to be even more focused on efforts to combat the rise in sexual and gender based violence (GBV) in countries affected by crises, Natalia Kanem, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), told Euractiv.

The Greek Ministry of Health has reacted to reports of possible irregularities in an HPV screening project by saying it was merely following the advice of scientists and the example of other European Union countries while avoiding answering other vital questions.

Greece's conservative government promised on Monday (1 April) to offer extra financial aid and more staff to help the island of Crete and its tiny neighbour Gavdos handle a steep rise in arrivals of migrants trying to cross to Europe from Libya.

The European Commission needs to be more productive, more concrete, produce more results, and move away from ‘soft politics’, with hopes of a ‘refresh’ after the June European Elections, former prime minister and current leader of the opposition in Montenegro, Dritan Abazovic said in an interview.

Romania, which will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Social Climate Fund (SCF), must use the funds for investments that support vulnerable groups and citizens in energy or transport poverty, according to a report by the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD).

The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in Sofia carried out searches in Bulgaria on Monday to gather evidence in a suspected case of embezzlement, misuse of EU funds and money laundering linked to the construction of Bulgaria's largest infrastructure project, the Zheleznitsa tunnel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday (1 April) to shutter the local office of Qatari satellite television network Al Jazeera while the war in Gaza continues.

More than 400 Czech artists have now signed an open letter to the Czech government and president calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.

Nearly 70% of Poles do not want their country to join the eurozone, with voters of the conservative PiS the most sceptical according to recent polls. 

Portugal’s new prime minister, Luís Montenegro, will break the almost total public silence he has maintained since election night at his swearing-in on Tuesday, except for an audience with the country’s president in Belém and a trip to Brussels.

Podemos, the left-wing party that is no longer part of Sumar, the junior partner in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez‘s executive, will not stand in Catalonia’s snap elections on 12 May so as not to “fragment” the progressive forces taking part in the regional elections, according to party sources.

The European elections this June will be critical for the leadership of Sweden’s opposition Centre Party, which faces extremely low numbers in the polls and lacks familiar faces on its EU election list.

The French political scene has hailed the defeat of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) party in the local elections over the weekend, saying it was a blow against “authoritarianism”.

Germany shut down 15 coal-fired power plants over Easter to ensure that the country would meet its climate neutrality targets, with Economy Minister Robert Habeck saying that the plants were “neither necessary nor economical”.

Russia and Ukraine claimed to have downed each other's drones over the Black Sea on Monday (1 April), with both sides apparently devoting increasing attention to developing and using unmanned aircraft in their more than two-year-old war.

The Kremlin on Monday (1 April) dismissed a report that Russian military intelligence may be behind the mysterious "Havana syndrome" ailment that has afflicted US diplomats and spies globally.

Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Syria in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, and that marked a major escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries.

In the latest episode of our daily podcast Today in the EU we’re exploring which are the satire parties that have managed to be present in the EU political scene.

The EU’s new requirements for circularity, renewables and the bioeconomy will require verification if they are to work, after EU legislators came to a hard-fought agreement on revising the union’s legislation covering packaging and packaging waste.