Italy's 2015 budget, passed last week, puts the government on a collision course with the European Union how strictly the three-year-old terms of the Stability and Growth Pact will be interpreted.
Matera, an art city in southern Italy, was recommended on Friday to become European Culture Capital 2019, local reports said.
Macedonia's accession process to the European Union (EU) has reached an impasse, a report by the European Commission (EC) showed on Wednesday.
Members of European Parliament who are friendly to China re-launched the EU-China friendship group within the new European Parliament here Wednesday evening.
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday in Belgrade, Serbia, that the country's decision to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to a grand military parade will not harm its relations with the European Union (EU), as reforms has shown that Serbia is dedicated to its European path.
Inspectors from the European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB) arrived on Monday in Madrid on their second visit to assess Spain's financial sector after the end of the bailout.
Italy was the worst country in the European Union when it came to applying mandatory European Union laws, the European Commission said this week, further solidifying the country's reputation as a country of rule breakers and one of Europe's less reliable partners, according to analysts.
The European Commission on Monday adopted a new program worth up to 165 million euros (209 million U.S. dollars) for perishable fruit and vegetables under the Russian ban.
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Tuesday that European fiscal rules were sufficiently flexible and shouldn't be altered.
The European Union (EU) on Sunday expressed great concern over the deadly bombing near the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo.
After its summer recess the new European Parliament (EP) convenes in Strasbourg Monday for a new plenary session.
The Austrian government has announced a new export drive Thursday to promote its agri-food products to various foreign markets in a bid to make up for losses incurred by Russian sanctions, the Austria Press Agency reported.
Canada is participating in NATO's Steadfast Javelin II war game in Latvia as part of the country's Operation Reassurance to ease eastern European countries' "anxiety over security," the Canadian Department of National Defense said Tuesday.
Portugal is ready to issue 15-year debt bonds for the first time since it received a 78-billion-euro bailout from the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in May 2011, according to local media reports on Tuesday.
The European Union has signed development programs with 21 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries for a total amount of 339 million euros (445 million U.S. dollars), an EU statement said on Tuesday.
"Moldova is an example for the states with European aspirations, especially because it chose the path to the West and simultaneously wants to keep the good relations with the East," visiting Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini Monday told her Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca.
The European Union (EU) leaders during a summit on Saturday elected Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as president of the European Council, and appointed Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as the EU's foreign policy chief.
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