It comes as Europe faces multiple water-related problems, including PFAS and nitrate pollution, leaky infrastructure, more severe droughts and higher intensity rainfall. The Commission will work with EU members to...
Cross-bloc skepticism Spain’s linguistic recognition bid has long raised eyebrows — for a number of reasons. Making Catalan, Basque and Galician official within the institutions would require the translation of...
“We are highly alarmed by these developments,” reads the letter, signed by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden. A series...
But documents summarizing this week’s meeting of the bloc’s ambassadors, seen by POLITICO, indicate serious doubts regarding Madrid’s bid. While Belgium, Cyprus, Portugal, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia supported granting...
Nine European leaders are calling for the European Convention on Human Rights to be reinterpreted to allow migrants who commit crimes to be expelled more easily. The European Court of...
Russian hackers involved in the campaign have gone after government organizations and private companies in the defense, transport, maritime, air traffic management and IT sectors, they said. Organizations from those...
“What I noticed is that the initiative that the Netherlands took regarding review of Article 2, the article about human rights, that this initiative from the Netherlands has gained some...
“The agreement is a victory for public health, science and multilateral action,” Tedros said. “It is also a recognition by the international community that our citizens, societies and economies must...
While in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump talked about his plans for tariffs. Here’s what he said, and where his taxes on imports stand now....
It takes at least two countries to make a deportation happen: one to send deportees and one to receive them. Typically, the receiving country agrees to take back its own...
The strategy comes as part of a broader EU-wide effort to rein in foreign investors from taking control of European companies in strategic or sensitive sectors, such as when Chinese...
The exemption gives countries room to increase their spending on defense up to 1.5 percent of their gross domestic product each year for four years without breaching EU fiscal rules....
