Former European Parliament Vice President Boguslaw Liberadzki has urged Europe to reassess its reliance on U.S. foreign policy and assert greater strategic autonomy, particularly regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

EU competition regulators on Friday approved Belgium's plan to grant state aid to French energy company Engie's Belgian business to extend the lifespan of two nuclear reactors, closing an in-depth investigation opened last July.

The EC has approved Belgium's revised state aid measure for extending the lifespan of two nuclear reactors under EU state aid rules.

"It will not happen without the release of hostages," Sa'ar said in his meetings with the Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Finnish, and Slovakian foreign ministers. "We are committed to the release of our hostages and to the war's objectives that we set,

Belgium plans to reinforce its global competitiveness in clinical research as the new government sets an ambitious course for pharma progress.

The European Union and Canada defended on Wednesday that trade agreements between partners and allies "are clearly better than trade tariffs," such as those that US President Donald Trump has been imposing since his arrival at the White House.

The European Commission has concluded its in-depth investigation and approved revised plans for Belgium's proposed financing of the lifetime extensions of Doel 4 and Tihange 3 nuclear power units. ;

Belgian MEP Liesbet Sommen spoke with Euractiv about critical medicines shortages, EU Pharma Package progress, and SANT's evolving role.

Close to 100,000 protesters thronged the center of Brussels on Thursday while airports and public transport were largely paralyzed as trade unions took their ire to the streets over drastic plans of the new center-right government to revamp some of the foundations on which the nation's welfare state was built.

BRUSSELS — All commercial flights to and from Belgium on Thursday have been canceled as air traffic controllers plan to join a nationwide strike against the new government.

Estonia has launched a new push to get fellow EU members to agree to seize frozen Russian assets and use them to help Ukraine, dismissing a Russian idea on how the money could be used as part of a peace deal.