The Western Balkans is ready to contribute to the fight against Russia amid European and Western “excuses” and “constraints” over aid, adding that EU member states need the region for its security, according to Prime Minister Edi Rama in an interview before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the country.

The European soft drinks sector’s Manifesto for the upcoming 2024-2029 EU political term is grounded in our ambition to promote balanced diets, drive environmental sustainability across our supply chain and uphold our position as a globally competitive sector that is essential to the European economy.

Fuelled by consumer optimism and supported by wage growth, economic activity in Croatia last year grew more than economists previously predicted.

The European Commission has asked EU countries to keep curbing their gas use but softened the policy to be entirely voluntary, in a sign of optimism that the worst of Europe's energy crisis is over.

Romanian deputies adopted a law that prohibits the sale of electronic smoking devices to young people under 18 on Tuesday.

The Polish government agreed to meet farmers’ demands on Tuesday, as thousands marched in Warsaw to protest against the European Green Deal and imports of Ukrainian food.

Five-Star Movement candidate Alessandra Todde winning the regional elections in Sardinia against Fratelli d’Italia’s Paolo Truzzu represents a clear setback for the right wing and the government coalition led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ahead of June’s EU elections.

France hopes its current debate on having the right to abortion enshrined in the Constitution would inspire its EU counterparts, French Gender Equality and Diversity Minister Aurore Bergé said at the informal meeting of gender equality ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.

Spain’s former transport minister José Luis Ábalos announced his resignation from Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE) on Tuesday but will remain a member of parliament despite revelations that his former aide claimed millions in commissions for supplying face masks during the worst months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

To resolve the decades-long conflict between the two countries, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will hold bilateral and trilateral talks with her Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts on Wednesday and Thursday in Berlin.

At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip - one quarter of the population - are one step away from famine, a senior UN aid official told the Security Council on Tuesday (27 February), warning that widespread famine could be "almost inevitable" without action.

The legacy of Germany’s first-ever three-way coalition is jeopardised by continuous infighting, Green agriculture minister Cem Özdemir warned on Tuesday as the Greens worry about the government’s performance and tight public finances.

Bulgaria’s government has not given up on the possibility of suing Russia’s state-owned Gazprom for cutting off gas supplies two months after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

The European Commission is probing if Microsoft is preventing customers from relying on certain security software from its competitors, according to a document that regulators sent to at least one rival in January, seen by Reuters.

Europe's wind firms have faced a bleak period of supply chain setbacks, inflation and equipment problems - although Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas (VWS.CO) returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Rare Disease Day, 29 February, marks a moment when an estimated 30 million people living with rare diseases across Europe gain a louder voice. Europe now has a generational opportunity to scale up programmes capable of improving millions of lives. 

The Bulgarian parliament has paused a €50 billion healthcare investment strategy until 2030, despite struggling with excessively high mortality and recording the largest negative population growth in the European Union.

The European Parliament decided to ban Amazon representatives from accessing its buildings on Tuesday (27 February), due to multiple events where the global retailing giant did not attend meetings requested by members of the European Parliament, press service confirmed Euractiv.

EU farmers' organisations welcomed a vote in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee calling for more safeguards against food imports in the context of a recent Commission proposal for renewing trade liberalisation measures for Ukraine.

Belgium is throwing a last-ditch attempt to get the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) over the finish line in a vote on Wednesday (28 February) despite tenacious reservations from key member states, including Germany and Italy.