As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is meeting former US President Donald Trump on Friday in Florida, opposition liberal Hungarian MEP fears that this does not bode well for the outcome of the war in Ukraine and NATO in general. 

Ukrainian municipalities battle at a local level to keep contact with citizens and ensure services continue, despite continuous shelling. Municipal representatives spoke with Euractiv, telling their civic story as Ukraine enters its third year since the Russian invasion.

To understand the obstacles women face when participating in politics, national authorities need to generate more gender-disaggregated data, Policy and Campaign Officer for the European Women’s Lobby, Jéromine Andolfatto, told Euractiv.

Ursula von der Leyen did not forget about angered EU farmers during the launch of her election campaign for a second mandate at the European Commission on Thursday (7 March), but omitted all reference to the agricultural policies that she penned during her five-year term.

Twenty-two European countries wrote to the Commission calling for immediate initiatives to respond to the agricultural crisis, with the bloc's executive confirming its intention to table measures next week.

Several small EU countries have on Thursday (7 March) warned against the increased use of national subsidies within the EU, which they warn undermines the foundations of the single market.

As EU ambassadors were due to meet on Friday (8 March) to try to agree again a provisional deal on the platform work directive, France circulated a set of changes it wants to make to the text, throwing another spanner in the works for the ill-starred file.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday (8 March) said she expected a maritime aid corridor to start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend, taking desperately needed aid to besieged Palestinians.

As the EU moves to extend trade liberalisation with Kyiv, Ukraine's trade representative Taras Kachka told Euractiv that talks with Warsaw will soon lead to safeguard measures to protect Polish farmers from the influx of Ukrainian agricultural imports.

The concept of European education continues to be difficult to approach, despite the fact that it seems to be an easy subject to understand. Education should not be considered a "small thing", in a knowledge society based Union as the one we live in.

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Europe is on track to end the winter with a record volume of gas in storage, which has pushed futures prices back to pre-crisis levels once inflation is taken into account.

The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) eyes a pro-EU, pro-centrist coalition with the socialists and liberals after the EU elections in June, an EPP source familiar with the matter told Euractiv, adding that the Greens for now are not on the radar while ad hoc cooperation with some parties on the right who want to keep distances from extreme rhetoric, is not ruled out.

Senior Ukrainian officials, in a meeting with a Chinese regional envoy on Thursday (7 March), pressed Kyiv's plan to end the two-year conflict with Russia and presented what they said was evidence of North Korean weaponry supplied to Moscow.

Romania must escape the poverty paradigm if it wants to be a prosperous country, Investment and European Projects Minister Adrian Câciu said on Thursday in reference to the Maastricht Treaty, which states that a nation’s debt cannot exceed 3% of GDP.

The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously adopted and sent to parliament the draft law on the prevention of conflicts of interest in the state institutions, one of the key reform laws the EU insists on so the European Council can decide on opening accession negotiations by the end of this month, they announced on Wednesday.

The Slovak Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Slovakia, claiming that the Dutch had interfered in Slovakia’s internal affairs by offering the premises of their embassy in Prague for a discussion on the political situation in Slovakia.

Plans for constructing a gigafactory for the production of batteries for electric cars worth €7.9 billion by a foreign investor - whose name is being withheld - in the Karviná region were disclosed by the Czech government on Thursday.

Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski’s announcement of major changes to the European Green Deal is his own view and does not reflect the position of the EU executive, a Commission spokesman said on Thursday.