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Kosovo takes step towards joining European Union

Kosovo has signed a trade and investment pact with the EU, which is the first step on Pristina’s long road to possible full membership of the bloc

Europe News

MEPs want tougher tax rules

MEPs say EU governments should do more to improve corporate tax transparency in Europe. They want member states to sign up to a mandatory EU-wide

World News

Balkans struggle with migrant crisis as winter looms

EU and Balkan leaders may have agreed a new plan at the weekend to tackle the refugee crisis but in the meantime the steady flow of migrants

World

Interview with Didier Billion (IRIS)about Turkey's future in Europe

Give and take. After months of blocking Turkey’s negotiations to join the European Union and the growing migration crisis, German Chancellor Angela

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Slovenia

EU stiffens border controls but human bottlenecks shiver in the cold and rain

Twenty-four hours after the EU’s special central and eastern European member states’ summit on the refugee crisis and there are already signs that

Europe News

MEPs react to EU-Balkans summit

At the start of yet another meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs were far from optimistic after Sunday’s EU-Balkans summit. That

World News

EU agrees on thousands of extra refugee places on Balkan migration route

European Union leaders have agreed to provide another 100,000 spaces in refugee welcome centres along the route from Greece towards Germany. It’s

Greece

Zoe Konstantopoulou: "The greek debt is illegal and should not be paid"

On 6 February 2015, after SYRIZA’s victory in the January 2015 election, she was elected as the youngest Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament with 235

World News

Broadbit wins EU/Euronews Innovation Radar award

My Europe Series

How to complain about energy prices

Patrick from London asked: “I have received an extremely high energy bill for last month. I suppose that my energy supplier has raised their prices

Poland

Polish right would tip EU centre of gravity eastward

Beata Szydlo (pronounced ‘shédwa’) of Poland’s right-wing Eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS), at 52 could lead a new nationalist-driven

World News

Migrants: the EU calls an emergency summit to tackle the Balkan bottleneck

Thousands head across the fields from Berkasovo-Bapska Around 3,500 refugees and migrants have spent the night camped out in the open at the

Turkey

Germany offers Turkey concessions package to get support in refugee crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a visit to key ally Turkey on Sunday, meeting with both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Prime Minister

Germany

Germans rally to support mayoral candidate stabbed in 'anti-refugee attack'

Germans took to the streets of Cologne on Saturday in solidarity with Henriette Reker, the mayoral candidate.for the city who was stabbed and

Hungary

Last train to Hungary: border closure with Croatia comes into effect

Hungary closes its southern frontier with Croatia - the latest in a series of border clampdowns to stem the flow of migrants into the country.

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: EU seeks migrant deal with Turkey

In this edition of Europe Weekly: EU leaders seek to agree a deal with Turkey on managing the refugee crisis; Dutch investigators publish their

My Europe Series

What can I do as a consumer to prevent food waste?

This week on Utalk, a question from Olivier in Brussels: “90 million tonnes of food are thrown away in the European Union every year. What can we do

World News

Migrant crisis confusion: how many are entering the EU?

Europe’s border agency is facing criticism, after admitting that it has doubled-counted migrants entering the EU this year. It released data claiming

Real Economy

Jobs and skills: making the match

Europe’s population is ageing and fewer young people means a shrinking workforce in the future to support it. People will have to work longer, hard

Europe News

Pro-Europeans launch 'in' campaign ahead of UK referendum on EU membership

Leaving the EU would hurt Britain’s jobs and torpedo its global financial clout. That is the message from pro-Europeans, who have launched their “in”