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The congress of the centre-right European People’s Party has overwhelmingly elected Donald Tusk as the EPP President with 491 in favour (93 per cent) and 37 against, the EPP said. […]
More than half a million asylum applications were lodged in the EU+ during the first nine months of 2019, a 10 per cent increase compared with the sam ...
The Council of the EU and the European Parliament have reached agreement on an EU budget for 2020 “which strongly focuses on growth and competit ...
Delays and serious challenges integrating young refugees who have fled war and persecution risk creating a lost generation, according to a report by t ...
Romania’s pro-European Union President Klaus Iohannis has taken a lead in the presidential elections Sunday, but will likely have to contest a runoff vote later this month. According to two […]
Globally, October 2019 was 0.69 degrees Celsius warmer than the average October from 1981-2010, making it by a narrow margin the warmest October in this data record, according to a […]
A new risk assessment by the European Food Safety Authority has found that there is a “very high risk” of African Swine Fever to spreading to nine countries in South […]
Wildfires destroyed nearly 178 000 hectares (ha) of forests and land in the EU in 2018, according to a European Commission report published on October 31. While this is less […]
The European Commission is mobilising 663 million euro in humanitarian aid to continue major projects under the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey, the Commission said on October 31. Six hundred […]
The request by the United Kingdom for a “Brexit flextension” until January 31 2020 has been granted by the EU27, the leaders of the other EU member states, according to […]
