On 18 March 2025, a law was adopted in Hungary restricting the freedom of assembly, by connecting it to a previous controversial law from 2021, which prohibited the public portrayal to children of ...

The transition to electric vehicles is well underway in the European Union, but ensuring sufficient charging infrastructure remains a challenge.

Since the mid-1990s, the European Union has stressed the need for better Roma inclusion.

Citizens often turn to the European Parliament to ask how the European Union deals with Cross-border healthcare.

The six countries that make up the region known as the Western Balkans differ in terms of size, population, economy, energy mix and energy import dependency.

The countries of the Western Balkans (WB) (Figure 1) differ in terms of size, population, economy, energy mix (Figure 2) and energy import dependency. At the same time, they share some common elements ...

Albania’s area is 28 703 km2, and its population is around 2.71 million people (2024 estimates). In its most recent report on the Western Balkans, the World Bank estimated that real gross domestic ...

The EU has strong trade ties with the Western Balkan countries (Figure 3) and is a large investor in the region. In 2022, Albania’s total volume of trade in goods with the EU was €7.1 billion; Bosnia ...

In May 2022, the European Commission presented REPowerEU, a plan to make the EU independent from Russian fossil fuels well before 2030, using the Next Generation EU funds.