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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

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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

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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”

World News

EU to seize smugglers' boats near Libya

The United Nations security council has authorised European Union naval operations off the coast of Libya to discourage groups of people traffickers

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: historic Merkel-Hollande address and first refugees relocated under EU plan

In this edition of Europe Weekly, all eyes were on French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as they jointly addressed

Hungary

Rebuilding a pluralist Syria key to encouraging returns

Refugees leave terror behind them. How many would ever go back? The Syrian-German project Adopt a Revolution says that more than half of the refugees

Europe News

First group of refugees relocated under EU scheme

The first group of refugees to be moved under an EU relocation scheme has flown out of Italy, bound for Sweden. The 19 Eritrean nationals boarded a

Belarus

EU 'could lift sanctions' on Belarus depending on how weekend election unfolds

The strongman of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, looks set to win more than a fifth term in office in elections this weekend. Diplomatic sources

World

Refugees: ordeal to reach Europe, then struggle for acceptance

Merkel and Hollande in the European Parliament, showing a united front in dealing with the refugee crisis. Germany’s chancellor spoke out for

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EU Balkan refugee conference attempts to end divisions, offer more aid, and work with Syria's neighbours

Today Italy relocates its first batch of refugees, Eritreans, to Sweden, and hopes the trickle will become a flood out of its overstretched refugee