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Fact check: Are EU sanctions causing a food crisis, as Russia claims?

The Kremlin is blaming the EU for the global food crisis, but the facts tell a very different story.

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All you need to know about the EU's 15% gas reduction plan

The plan could introduce mandatory rationing across the bloc if Russia totally cuts off gas supplies.

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European General Court upholds EU ban on Russia Today

The bloc's top court argued the restriction does not infringe media freedom.

Europe Decoded

Fighting Europe’s fires: Inside the EU’s emergency response centre

In just eight days this month, four member states requested EU assistance to battle blazes, bringing to five the number of activations for forest fires this year. There were nine for the whole of 2021.

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Health news

EU approves use of Bavarian Nordic vaccine against monkeypox

The European Commission approved the use of the drug just days after the WHO called the spread of monkeypox a global health emergency.

Travel News

Euroviews. Post-Brexit Brits now need to do a 4-day course to live in France

These training days, delivered in French, now await any Brit like myself who has migrated to France since the UK fully left the EU.

Belgium

EU candidates must 'convince' members they are prepared, says Várhelyi

Albanian and Macedonian PMs Rama and Kovačevski were welcomed to Brussels this week by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as both countries began accession negotiations. Neighbourhood and Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi provides Euronews with his perspective.

People

‘The EU has to be more radical’: How can we fix cross-border rail?

Self-confessed EU nerd Jon Worth is taking 150 trains across 28 European countries to highlight the problems with cross-border rail travel in the EU.

Culture news

Would a 'touring tsar' help UK bands get EU gigs after Brexit?

A new report has stressed the damage that Brexit has done to UK musicians' ability to tour their acts in the EU.

Europe News

Northern Ireland Protocol: EU launches new legal action against the UK

The UK now has two months to reply to the letters from Brussels demanding "swift remedial actions to restore compliance with the terms of the Protocol".

Tech News

Europe's net zero industrial plant is coming to Spain

Plans for a green hydrogen generation plant and a wind power generation and smart wind turbine assembly plant are also underway.

Europe News

EU bans imports of Russian gold and freezes Sberbank's assets

The precious metal has been used by oligarchs as a safe haven to soften the impact of Western sanctions.

Europe News

Nord Stream to resume gas flows after 10-day maintenance

Two sources confirmed the information to Reuters, amid fears of an imminent total suspension of Russian gas supplies.

Hungary

Hungary moves to curb power of EU

Hungary passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the power of the EU parliament to be curtailed, arguing that it has steered Europe into a “dead end.”

Europe Decoded

Video: How coal and steel paved the way for the EU we know today

In 1951, six European countries joined forces to create a common market on coal and steel, introducing the idea of supranationalism.

Europe News

'Historic moment': EU negotiations open for Albania, North Macedonia

For North Macedonia, the opening of negotiations is 17 years in the making.

Europe News

Ukraine's financial situation is 'dire,' warns EU ambassador

The EU has released only €1 billion out of the €9 billion that was promised in financial aid.

Europe News

Brussels defends sanctions, while pledging more Ukraine financial aid

EU foreign ministers met in Brussels Monday, agreeing to give €500 million in military aid to Kyiv.

Republic of North Macedonia

North Macedonia votes for EU deal to lift Bulgarian veto amid protests

The so-called French proposal would see the country recognise the Bulgarian minority in its constitution and commit to an annual review of its relations with Sofia.

World

How is the EU addressing rising energy prices and record inflation?

How is the EU addressing rising energy prices and record inflation in the Eurozone? We spoke to the European Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, to find out.