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On International Workers’ Day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD/S&D) and trade union representatives have voiced opposition to calls by business leaders and pro-business parties for longer working hours and to increase the retirement age.
The United Nations on Tuesday (30 April) warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip was "on the immediate horizon" and that "incremental" progress by Israel on aid access to the enclave could not be used to prepare for or justify an operation.
New York City police raided Columbia University late on Tuesday (30 April) to arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some of whom had seized an academic building.
Britain launched physical checks on fresh food products imported from the European Union on Tuesday (30 April) some three years after it left the bloc's single market and eight years after it voted to leave the EU.
A group of Palestinian students disrupted a meeting of EU diplomats in the West Bank and attacked some of their cars with stones, to protest against the war in Gaza, witnesses said.
An Azerbaijani pro-democracy activist was placed in pre-trial custody on Tuesday (30 April) on smuggling charges he denied in the latest of a series of cases that have prompted Western concern about free speech and human rights.
Poland has launched an investigation into multi-million-dollar cash losses by Polish refiner Orlen's Swiss unit and allegations that its former CEO had ties to "terrorist organisations", Warsaw chief prosecutor Malgorzata Adamajtys said on Tuesday (30 April).
Ethiopia on Tuesday (30 April) said it was dismayed by an EU decision to impose a tougher visa process on the African country.
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu warned gambling companies on Tuesday that their licences would be revoked if they failed to comply with a law banning slot machines in smaller towns, in a bid to tackle the country's alarming gambling addiction rates.
Bulgaria’s caretaker government has disbursed much-anticipated funds worth €150 million to compensate farmers for the negative effects of the import of Ukrainian agricultural products.
The Kremlin's move to nationalise the Italian company's Ariston subsidiary is an attempt to influence the G7's decision to seize Russian assets in Europe, says Vittorio Torrembini, president of the association of Italian entrepreneurs in Russia, Gim-Unimpresa, calling on the Italian Foreign Ministry to intervene.
The Danish government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce a carbon tax on agriculture despite the Danish Climate Ministry's annual report showing that the country is on track to meet its 2030 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70% compared to 1990 levels.
Poland has invested €86 billion in the European Union project and gained €261 billion in the 20 years since it joined, according to data presented by Funds and Regional Policy Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęczit at a press conference on Tuesday.
Europeans suffer 100,000 amputations a year because of the escalating issue of ‘diabetic foot’. Diabetes already burdens health systems, but without more frequent monitoring programmes, experts warn the amputation crisis will get worse.
In Italy, G7 ministers agreed a coal phase out in the first half of the 2030s, agreed on their first-ever energy storage target, started difficult negotiations on climate finance past 2025 and founded a water coalition.
With the EU elections just a month away and the Greens struggling to get off the ground in the polls, Marie Toussaint, head of the Green party list, called on Tuesday for "a great leap forward".
A group of EU countries is calling to relax rules on mandatory practices to protect peatlands and wetlands under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) only days after the European Parliament rubber-stamped an overhaul of six other environmental conditions.
The eurozone beat analyst expectations to emerge comfortably from a recession in the first quarter of this year, new EU data published on Tuesday (30 April) showed, while inflation figures boosted hopes of long-awaited rate cuts by the European Central Bank (ECB) in June.
European policymakers need to short-circuit Sudan’s warring parties’ attempts to manipulate aid to legitimate them as the government in waiting, writes Theodore Murphy.
European fisheries are at the heart of a diplomatic crisis brewing between the EU and the UK, their first trade spat since the UK left the European Union in February 2020.
As the European Union extends its hand in accession negotiations with Moldova, the nation stands at a pivotal juncture, poised between its past and its future. The European Union is engaging in accession talks with Moldova, marking a critical moment …
The European Commission announced on Tuesday (30 April) the winners of its first auction to allocate subsidies for hydrogen production, with most of the €720 million awarded going to projects in the Iberian peninsula.
The EU should expand its budget and consider linking all member state payments to structural reforms, EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Monday (29 April).
European affairs ministers and their counterparts from EU candidate countries started talks on Tuesday (30 April) on how to strengthen the rule of law both within the bloc and in countries seeking to join it.
