Europe

When Antonio Costa, the president of the European Council, arrived in Azerbaijan’s capital on March 11, his visit carried the symbolism of a partnership that has steadily grown more important to both...

Azerbaijan’s economic relationship with the European Union has deepened into one of the most strategically significant pillars of the country’s foreign economic policy, as energy exports, trade flows...

At a committee meeting in Baku on Monday, lawmakers agreed to advance a bill ratifying the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs, paving the way for a parliamentary vote on...

When Ilham Aliyev stepped onto the tarmac in Belgrade in mid-February, greeted by Aleksandar Vučić with full military honours, the picture looked familiar. What mattered was not the ceremony but the s...

The chandeliers of the Bayerischer Hof glowed against a February chill as more than 450 presidents, prime ministers, generals and executives gathered for three days that felt less like a conference th...

Leaders of the Turkic world gathered in Budapest this week for the first informal summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), marking the first time such an event has been held in a European Un...

Leading international analytical firms have been actively sharing their research and forecasts regarding the EU's gas demand at various forums, taking into account the bloc’s strategy for a gradual tr...

On January 27, European Union foreign ministers agreed to extend sanctions against Russia for another six months and provided Hungary with guarantees for its energy security, without which Budapest ha...

On December 19, the European Parliament adopted a resolution addressing the repressions against civil society and independent media in Azerbaijan. The resolution stated that since 2023, the Azerbaijan...

The export trunk gas pipeline Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod has recently garnered heightened global attention. This is not due to its rank among the top five longest pipelines in the world (spanning 4,451 k...

As the potential halt to Russian gas transit through Ukraine approaches—scheduled for 5 a.m. Ukrainian time on January 1, 2025—effectively signaling the cessation of pipeline gas supplies from Russia...

The meeting of the newly elected Secretary General Mark Rutte with President Erdoğan in Ankara on November 25 was aimed not so much at familiarizing himself with the member countries but at holding di...

In alignment with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the EU presented its first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) on November 22 at COP29 in Baku, detailing the Union's climate actions up to 2023...

The heating season and new gas year (which runs from October to October of the following year) in the EU, which began in October, was the focus of discussions among EU energy ministers in Luxembourg o...

On October 1, discussions about Azerbaijan were held at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Earlier this year, the mandate of Azerbaijan's delegation to the body had not been c...

Azerbaijan has completed another election. The snap parliamentary elections, held on September 1, are now behind us. This was the second snap election held within a year. Earlier, in February, snap pr...