But all eyes (or almost) were on Volodymyr Zelensky, who, from the Tirana summit, commented on the rather disappointing outcome of the first direct talks between the Moscow and Kyiv delegations since ...

Challengers from the Alliance for a Glorious Albania, the center-right coalition led by the Democratic Party and its historic leader (and last premier before Rama’s hegemony), Sali Berisha, remain far ...

Brussels – The idea of a savings union is undoubtedly useful for financing the EU’s policy priorities, namely the double green and digital transition and even more so defence, but it will not be ...

Brussels – New taxes on alternative products to traditional tobacco? Tuesday of last week, during a lunch with the coordinators and members of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Taxation Issues ...

Next Sunday (May 18), the next episode in the almost science-fiction-like saga of the Romanian presidential race will air. Over the past six months, the politics of the Balkan state — an EU and NATO ...

Brussels – Local authorities want a European plan against the housing crisis.The Committee of the Regions (CoR), meeting in plenary session at the EU Parliament in Brussels, lobbies the European ...

Brussels – The European Commission is investing more than €7.3 billion through the recently adopted Horizon Europe work program for 2025 to strengthen Europe’s research and innovation engine and its ...

Brussels – A year and a half after Donald Tusk returned to lead the government, Poland will go to the polls on Sunday, 18 May, to elect a new president to succeed the conservative Andrzej Duda. On one ...

Brussels – Three days after the UN stance, the EU also rejects Israel’s plan to take over the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza. And it “reiterates its urgent appeal” to Tel Aviv “to ...

But Zelensky still showed up in Ankara to see his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. At the end of the bilateral meeting, the Ukrainian president criticised the Kremlin’s decision to send a ...

Brussels – In the first quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.3 percent in the Eurozone and the EU as a whole compared to the previous quarter, according to the flash estimate ...

Brussels – Ukraine can count on its most influential supporter on the path to EU membership: the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, is making a personal pitch for accelerating Kyiv’s ...