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.

The EU’s new and evolving forest monitoring framework has lawmakers contesting the benefits of harvesting optimum broad data sets, weighted against cost burdens for the forestry industry in acquiring the data.

The US military will establish a temporary port off Gaza's coast to bring in desperately needed aid, President Joe Biden announced Thursday (7 March), in a major operation as Israel holds up deliveries on the ground.

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A victory for the right-wing bloc in Sunday’s general elections in Portugal is the most likely scenario, but there is uncertainty whether there will be a need for an agreement with the far-right Chega party, according to two political analysts who spoke to Euractiv’s partner Lusa, adding that there could be ‘surprises’.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party, which leads a minority left-wing coalition government with the progressive Sumar platform, reached a final deal with Catalan pro-independence parties to pardon separatist leaders in exchange for their parliamentary support to keep Sánchez in power until the end of his second term in 2027.