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“For us, the Russian people are our brother people, and centuries-old history has proven it many times. Therefore, Russian-Serbian relations cannot be destroyed under any pressure,” said Vucic.

Vucic touts Russian-Serbian brotherhood as regional tensions rise

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 16, 2022

In a sign of resistance to Western calls to choose between Moscow and the West, Serbian President Aleksander Vucic said his country’s brotherly relations with Russia cannot be destroyed, and Belgrade would never succumb to pressure during a meeting with Turko Daudov

“Declining a meeting request should be explained on the basis of the recent developments in the EU-United Kingdom relations,” the Commission’s top civil servant added.

EU imposes meeting ban on UK officials

By: EBR | Thursday, November 10, 2022

EU officials have been told not to hold meetings with UK counterparts unless they are strictly related to the war in Ukraine or are ‘legally mandatory’, in the latest indication of frosty relations between Brussels and London

Since the end of the summer, there have been a series of strikes protesting job insecurity and demanding higher wages as prices continue to rise.

Strikes in Belgium, France, Greece as workers demand action

By: EBR | Thursday, November 10, 2022

Paris is bracing for another in a series of multi-sector strikes on Thursday as France’s emerging protest movement gains ground, only a day after general strikes paralysed its northern neighbour Belgium and Greece

Secours Populaire, the IPSOS survey institute, and their European partners surveyed 6,000 Europeans on the issue of precariousness in six countries: France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Poland, and the UK.

‘Social catastrophe’ at Europe’s doorstep as crisis bites

By: EBR | Monday, November 7, 2022

While stabilising energy prices and a mild early autumn have brought a welcome respite for Europeans, a new survey suggests that the crisis the continent is bracing for this winter is already here

While some of these unofficial police stations supposedly provide services like extending driver’s licenses, it is feared these may be used to investigate and threaten dissidents abroad.

Austria vows to investigate secret Chinese police stations

By: EBR | Monday, November 7, 2022

The Austrian government said it would examine the police stations China has reportedly set up in the country as such activities are prohibited and cannot be tolerated

Influential members of the conservative New Democracy party, potential rivals in any future leadership challenge to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, were among those targeted, the newspaper said.

Top Greek court orders probe into wiretap scandal report

By: EBR | Monday, November 7, 2022

Greece’s supreme court has ordered a probe into a bombshell report that more than 30 politicians, journalists and businessmen were targeted by state surveillance

Across Europe, about 10% of heat is supplied by district heating systems, which pump heat through underground water pipes across neighbourhoods or cities.

Gas crisis causes rethink of energy sources for district heating

By: EBR | Thursday, November 3, 2022

In recent years, energy companies operating large combined heat and power plants were looking to switch from coal to gas as a stepping stone towards decarbonisation

While such accusations are not new, they have become louder and more frequent following Meloni and Macron’s quiet meeting in Rome on Sunday (23 October), which made Macron the first foreign leader to have met the new Italian leader.

Accusations of far-right ‘cosying’ intensify after Macron-Meloni meet

By: EBR | Thursday, October 27, 2022

Accusations of cosying up to the far-right are flying in France after Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National backed the Left’s no-confidence motion in the government and President Emmanuel Macron met with Italy’s controversial new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni

Europe’s post-colonial baggage, and the difficulties of getting 54 African states to agree on anything much, has contributed to the EU’s dwindling influence in Africa.

EU aid for Africa will decide its seat at the global top table

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 25, 2022

If the European Union wishes to signal its claim to a greater global role once the Ukraine war is ended, it doesn’t have far to look

Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca downplayed the Dutch resolution, saying it is not disturbing because Romania has done everything necessary to fulfil the technical requirements for accession.

Dutch Schengen holdout risks fuelling anti-EU sentiment in Bulgaria, Romania

By: EBR | Monday, October 24, 2022

As the Netherlands continues to withhold its green light for Romania and Bulgaria to join Europe’s border-free zone, politicians in the Balkan countries warn that the move, perceived as unfair and discriminatory, risks feeding Euroscepticism

Germany, itself under fire for its €200 billion household and industry support scheme, is pushing fellow EU leaders to abandon the ideas of price caps at an EU summit on 20-21 October.

Berlin resists price caps, pushes EU to ‘develop new gas fields’

By: EBR | Friday, October 21, 2022

With only weeks to go before a key UN climate conference, the German government is pushing EU leaders to work with countries that have the capacity “to develop new gas fields”

"The effects of a successful cyber-attack on industrial controls can result in the physical destruction of critical infrastructure, inability to deliver basic services and even risks to human life."

Closing the cyber gaps in Europe’s energy security

By: EBR | Friday, October 21, 2022

After nine months of war, Ukraine is advancing to retake its own territory while Russia’s responses have been to attack Ukrainian civil targets and infrastructure though both military force and cyber means

"This being said, the summit ended with open questions: What is the future of the EU’s enlargement policy? Does it still exist? Does it need reforming? Will some of the seventeen non-EU countries be allocated different categories regarding accession? A long debate is looming."

Five takeaways from the European Political Community Summit

By: EBR | Friday, October 21, 2022

Getting forty-four leaders from across Europe to meet in Prague was an achievement in itself

The scandal has exposed the leadership of the EU centre-right, which guaranteed Berlusconi’s pro-European credentials just before the elections, while also causing new headaches for Giorgia Meloni, who is struggling to form a government.

EU right exposed after Berlusconi’s ‘sweet’ letters with Putin

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Silvio Berlusconi has once again caused turmoil in Italian politics after it was revealed that he exchanged “sweet” letters with his long-time “true” friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin

“It is regrettable that Olaf Scholz and the SPD are apparently prepared to put the Emsland nuclear power plant into reserve operation, although there is no factual or technical reason for this,” explained the co-whips Britta Ha?elmann and Katharina Droge, both of whom are openly anti-nuclear.

German nuclear scuffle: Scholz cracks down, insists on keeping all plants

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has cracked down on his infighting government coalition, using his constitutional final say to resolve the dispute over the continued operation of nuclear power plants amid an energy crisis

How a German regional election could shape Europe

By: EBR | Thursday, October 13, 2022

The northern German state of Lower Saxony, home to eight million people, rarely makes headlines, and the international media barely registered this Sunday’s election there

Speaking to EU envoys gathered for their annual meeting in Brussels, Borrell in an unusually direct way warned that reports from the EU’s diplomatic missions around the world sometimes come too late, and reactions need to be responsive to events on the ground.

EU’s chief diplomat scolds his envoys as ‘too slow’ in reporting back

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Considering the many crises facing the EU, its delegations need to be alert 24 hours but are often ‘too slow’ in reporting back to Brussels, the bloc’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said

While tensions were simmering between the West and Russia, Orban went to Moscow on 1 February on a self-ascribed ’peace mission’ where he blasted the ineffectiveness of the EU’s punitive sanctions and hailed his successful relations with Putin.

Orban: With Merkel, we wouldn’t have a war

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Russia’s war on Ukraine would not have happened if former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was still in office, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said

Green MEP Michael Bloss told EURACTIV that in this crisis Europe is in the same boat with the US or Norway.

EU fumes as US, Norway energy profits put solidarity to the test

By: EBR | Thursday, October 6, 2022

As the USA and Norway reap unprecedented profits from surging energy prices, EU countries are complaining more loudly

The deal questions Greece’s territorial waters south of the island of Crete and has triggered strong reactions.

After Russia, now Turkey questions Europe’s territory

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 5, 2022

A memorandum of understanding for exploring hydrocarbons at sea signed between the government of Tripoli and Turkey openly questions EU territory causing more headaches in Brussels amid an ongoing war in Ukraine