The US on accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of war...
The United States on Wednesday (1 May) issued hundreds of fresh sanctions targeting Russia over the war in Ukraine in action that took aim at Moscow's circumvention of Western measures, including...
Solomon Islands lawmakers selected a new prime minister on Thursday (2 May), choosing foreign minister Jeremiah Manele, who has pledged to continue the Pacific Island nation's foreign policy that...
The EU called Georgia to 'stay on the European course' and cease spiralling violence in the country's capital after security forces on Wednesday (1 May) used water cannons, teargas, stun grenades...
A senior US official on Thursday (2 May) urged China and Russia to match declarations by the United States and others that only humans, and never artificial intelligence, would make decisions on ...
Slovakia has given temporary protection to a Ukrainian and Israeli citizen who is accused of running a pro-Russian influence campaign via a news website and is under Czech sanctions, Czech media ...
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria restricting gambling and banning advertising across media, Italy resolving a decade-long beach concession dispute with the Europ...
The US, Britain and the EU are pressing the United Arab Emirates to show it is cracking down on firms evading sanctions imposed on Russia over the war in Ukraine, according to three sources aware...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/us-allies-press-uae-over-russia-trade-sanctions/
Support for the three parties that make up Denmark's ruling coalition has hit an all-time low, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday, after the coalition abolished a popular public ...
Malta’s socialist (S&D) former prime minister Joseph Muscat, his former chief of staff Keith Schembri, and former minister Konrad Mizzi have been named by the country’s attorney general in co...
Bulgaria has banned the opening of casinos in towns with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants and completely banned gambling advertising in all types of media, with most parliament lawmakers voting in t...
Thousands marched at May Day protests across France on Wednesday (1 May), making demands ranging from better salaries to a ceasefire in Gaza, with minor skirmishes in some cities.
A recent decision by the Italian Council of State ordering the country to urgently introduce genuine tendering procedures for beach concessions has brought to an end the contentious legal battle ...
Spain's far-right VOX party is counting on the support of former US president and Republican candidate Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and Argentina’s President Javier Milei...
Britain set out its "roadmap" for authorising investment funds from the EU to offer products in the UK, a post-Brexit milestone that reflects how most funds sold to retail investors in the countr...
France's far-right Rassemblement party, which is currently leading opinion polls in France ahead of the EU elections, has unveiled the first 35 names on its list of candidates for the June vote, ...
In an interview with Euractiv, the Maltese energy minister warned against considering the European energy crisis over and laid out a vision of her island nation becoming the power connection betw...
Sixty years after its accession to the OECD, Japan sees an active role for the organisation in Southeast Asia, where bolstering sustainable growth standards will benefit the economies and resilie...
Contrails, as these stripes are called, are caused by jet engine exhaust. They are worse for the climate than aviation’s CO2 emissions. Cutting contrails is the quickest, cheapest path for the ...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/aerospace/opinion/contrails-plane-to-see/
Germany’s left-wing parties are accusing the far-right of creating a “climate of fear” after several incidents of physical attacks on left-wing campaigners were reported since the left-wing...
The European Union must become “democracy-secure” and be able to expel countries that move in the opposite direction, former prime minister and Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson told...
Poland’s GDP per capita could be higher than the UK’s in five years’ time, according to the latest World Bank data, which Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk vowed to make a reality on Wednes...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/tusk-promises-poles-will-soon-be-richer-than-brits/
The Czech ANO party launched its EU election campaign on Wednesday, with the fight against the EU Green Deal and the migration pact being among its top priorities, further distancing itself from ...
Controversial and popular in Germany, but relatively unknown in Brussels, Marie Agnes Strack Zimmermann nomination to lead candidate of the liberal party ALDE has taken most by surprise.
Contrary to the current European Union reform debate, it is possible to have the enlargement process and deeper EU integration run parallel, former European Commission president José Manuel Barr...
Wimbledon, the only Grand Slam still played on grass, is intent on becoming genuinely green. Organisers of the event have set ambitious, clear goals on how to achieve that. Their game plan is all...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/wimbledon-aims-to-serve-environmental-aces/
A report by Invest Europe reveals that €130bn was invested by private equity and venture capital in 2022, marking the second-highest year for investment. More than 9000 companies were backed, h...
On International Workers’ Day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD/S&D) and trade union representatives have voiced opposition to calls by business leaders and pro-business parties for longer wo...
For the 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004, the economic transformation has been impressive but significant disparities remain to this day and this is particularly the case when it comes to ...
The United Nations on Tuesday (30 April) warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip was "on the immediate horizon" and that "incremental" progress by Israel on aid access to the en...
New York City police raided Columbia University late on Tuesday (30 April) to arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some of whom had seized an academic building.
Britain launched physical checks on fresh food products imported from the European Union on Tuesday (30 April) some three years after it left the bloc's single market and eight years after it vot...
A group of Palestinian students disrupted a meeting of EU diplomats in the West Bank and attacked some of their cars with stones, to protest against the war in Gaza, witnesses said.
An Azerbaijani pro-democracy activist was placed in pre-trial custody on Tuesday (30 April) on smuggling charges he denied in the latest of a series of cases that have prompted Western concern ab...
Poland has launched an investigation into multi-million-dollar cash losses by Polish refiner Orlen's Swiss unit and allegations that its former CEO had ties to "terrorist organisations", Warsaw c...
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Denmark pushing ahead with agri-carbon tax plans despite already nearing 2030 climate target, Spain’s Ribera urging EU voters to stop a...
In this week's Green Brief, Euractiv's Donagh Cagney explores whether Europe can make the fundamental changes to deliver a real Green Industrial Strategy. Either it can or cannot - either outcome...
Ethiopia on Tuesday (30 April) said it was dismayed by an EU decision to impose a tougher visa process on the African country.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/migration/news/ethiopia-dismayed-at-tougher-eu-visa-regime/
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu warned gambling companies on Tuesday that their licences would be revoked if they failed to comply with a law banning slot machines in smaller towns, in a b...
Bulgaria’s caretaker government has disbursed much-anticipated funds worth €150 million to compensate farmers for the negative effects of the import of Ukrainian agricultural products.
Delays in regularising the status of migrants in Portugal are hampering access to justice and criminal proceedings against traffickers, the Council of Europe's Group of Experts against Traffickin...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is determined to fight to regain his post and defend his leadership, after several nerve-wracking days where he said he was seriously considering resigning.
Georgian security forces used water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades against protesters outside parliament, sharply escalating a crackdown after lawmakers debated a "foreign agents" bill viewed...
The Kremlin's move to nationalise the Italian company's Ariston subsidiary is an attempt to influence the G7's decision to seize Russian assets in Europe, says Vittorio Torrembini, president of t...
The Danish government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce a carbon tax on agriculture despite the Danish Climate Ministry's annual report showing that the country is on track to meet its 20...
Poland has invested €86 billion in the European Union project and gained €261 billion in the 20 years since it joined, according to data presented by Funds and Regional Policy Minister Katarz...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/poland-triples-return-on-investment-on-eu-membership/
Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, the lead candidate of Spain’s left-wing PSOE in the upcoming EU elections, urged EU citizens on Tuesday to mobilise to prevent a possible alliance ...
Europeans suffer 100,000 amputations a year because of the escalating issue of ‘diabetic foot’. Diabetes already burdens health systems, but without more frequent monitoring programmes, exper...
In Italy, G7 ministers agreed a coal phase out in the first half of the 2030s, agreed on their first-ever energy storage target, started difficult negotiations on climate finance past 2025 and fo...
With the EU elections just a month away and the Greens struggling to get off the ground in the polls, Marie Toussaint, head of the Green party list, called on Tuesday for "a great leap forward".
A group of EU countries is calling to relax rules on mandatory practices to protect peatlands and wetlands under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) only days after the European Parliament ...
The eurozone beat analyst expectations to emerge comfortably from a recession in the first quarter of this year, new EU data published on Tuesday (30 April) showed, while inflation figures booste...
Showing courageous responsibility means today that we must make our European Union fit to take in new countries already in this decade, writes German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
European policymakers need to short-circuit Sudan’s warring parties’ attempts to manipulate aid to legitimate them as the government in waiting, writes Theodore Murphy.
European fisheries are at the heart of a diplomatic crisis brewing between the EU and the UK, their first trade spat since the UK left the European Union in February 2020.
As the European Union extends its hand in accession negotiations with Moldova, the nation stands at a pivotal juncture, poised between its past and its future. The European Union is engaging in a...
The European Commission announced on Tuesday (30 April) the winners of its first auction to allocate subsidies for hydrogen production, with most of the €720 million awarded going to projects i...
The EU should expand its budget and consider linking all member state payments to structural reforms, EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Monday (29 April).
European affairs ministers and their counterparts from EU candidate countries started talks on Tuesday (30 April) on how to strengthen the rule of law both within the bloc and in countries seekin...
The European Commission is investigating whether Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, might have violated the DSA in its handling of misinformation.
Healthy, biodiverse forests provide a variety of ecosystem services such as improving air quality, helping to regulate global rainfall patterns, and mitigating the risks of climate change, as the...
The spread of H5NI, otherwise known as bird flu, in cattle and mammals in the United States, has raised concerns among European stakeholders, but the European Union says they are well prepared.
European bridges over maritime harbours are not likely to collapse should they be hit by seagoing vessels, according to several large European port authorities who Euractiv contacted following th...
Austria's agriculture and economy ministers have urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to postpone the implementation of the new EU anti-deforestation regulation (EUDR), schedu...
A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday (29 April) killed at least five people and injured 32, local o...
Police moved in to clear dozens of protesters who had set up tents in a courtyard at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday (29 April) to protest against the war in Gaza, students there said.
The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on 2 January was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security ...
The European Commission said Monday (29 April) it would raise an estimated €900 million by selling some of its buildings as it seeks to shrink its office space by a quarter.
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Berlin rejecting Macron’s Sorbonne pitch on ECB reform, Sánchez's resignation scare paying off in Spain, according to polls, and so mu...
European and Arab foreign ministers met in the Saudi capital on Monday (29 April) to discuss how to join forces on advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The single market is Europe’s industrial strategy and the right tool for the prosperity and security of our continent. On the basis of the Letta report, liberals call on EU political forces to ...
Burkina Faso has suspended a swathe of international news organisations in recent days for airing accusations of an army massacre of civilians, a move sparking concern on Monday (29 April).
The DMA mandates data mobility from platforms to third parties in B2B and B2C contexts, aiming to balance competition and data protection interests. However, the specifics of data portability und...
Germany's far-right AfD party, plagued by scandals in recent months, is falling behind in the polls and is now neck-and-neck with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), with both partie...
The first debate for the upcoming European election exposed the weakness of the lead candidate system, with low viewing figures and low-profile candidates casting a shadow on the process, experts...
Poland hosting nuclear weapons could be dangerous for the country, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna (Left/S&D) said, commenting on President Andrzej Duda's recent statement that Poland coul...
The Party of European Socialists lead candidate Nicolas Schmit is fuming over Commission President and centre-right EPP party lead candidate Ursula von der Leyen, who left the door open to collab...
Credit rating agency Moody’s is ready to look into the potential credit score implications of the European Investment Bank's expected expansion into a broader range of defence and military asse...
Finnair said on Monday (29 April) it is pausing flights to Tartu in eastern Estonia for one month due to GPS disturbances in the area, which Tallinn blamed on neighbouring Russia.
Deputy Prime Minister and Lega leader Matteo Salvini stood by his choice to have suspended Army General and controversial figure Roberto Vannacci run in the EU elections on Monday, which, accordi...
The Russian government’s recent move to temporarily nationalise Ariston Thermo Rus, a company that sells boilers, water heaters, and heat pumps under the umbrella of the Italian-owned Ariston g...
Euractiv's Transport Brief brings you the latest on the transport sector in Europe. This week, a successful time for cycling policy, but challenges remain for implementation.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/transport/news/eu-cycling-policy-takes-off-its-training-wheels/
The European Union’s long-term budget needs to be strengthened to cover defence spending and enlargement, Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said on Monday as he pointed to EU enlargement...
The Socialist Party of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez would win the general elections if they were held today, according to a fresh poll published on Monday, meaning that Sánchez’s �...
Bidzina Ivanishvili, the influential billionaire founder of Georgia's ruling party, accused a Western "global party of war" of meddling in Georgia in a rare speech at a rally backing a bill on fo...
Germany has a “very different standpoint” on French President Macron’s proposal to expand the mandate of the European Central Bank (ECB), the German government said on Monday, casting doubt...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/berlin-rejects-macrons-sorbonne-pitch-on-ecb-reform/
Russian agents who were found to be responsible for blasting ammunition deposits on Czech and Bulgarian territory following year-long investigations will likely lead nowhere as Russia’s non-coo...
After being neglected for years in the public debate, agriculture has become a hot topic at the EU level in recent years.
David Cameron was the first British prime minister to visit Kazakhstan. That was 11 years ago, now reincarnated as the UK’s foreign secretary, Cameron has urged stronger ties between the two na...
Europe’s citizens called for an end to the ‘cage age’ with the phasing-out of cages and crates for farm animals. The European Commission agreed but now says more consultation with farmers i...
Poland's pharmaceutical industry says there's still a long journey ahead for the revision of the EU's pharma legislation. Despite the Pharma Package now heading to Council, the Polish Ministry of...
Slovakia's much-needed hospital reforms aim to create an optimised network of categorised hospitals in Slovakia, ensuring higher quality of provided health care for patients. However, the system ...
The Bulgarian parliament has adopted a decision requiring the state to pay for the treatment of some patients with rare diseases. The decision follows decades of legal battles and accusations of ...
The Hungarian pharmaceutical market could be fundamentally reorganised following a government decree entrusting the supply of hospital medicines to a 'project company' with special rights. The ch...
The first National Strategy on Quality of Care, Patient Safety, and Patient Experience is being developed in Greece. It aims to build, strengthen, and consolidate the quality of care through nati...
A new antibiotic against gram-negative bacteria hasn’t been developed since the 1970s. Now, a European research team led by Swedish scientists has discovered multi-drug-resistant bug-killing co...
The EU’s multibillion pandemic recovery fund is a “success story” that European policymakers “should not rush to roll back”, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristali...
New European legislation on a border carbon tax and a ban on imports linked to deforestation pave the way for progress in international negotiations on "mirror clauses" in agricultural trade with...
Ministers from France, Germany, and Poland revealed on Monday (29 April) that the Russian disinformation network "Portal Kombat" has continued growing, with new websites targeting 19 member state...
Ricardo Borges de Castro makes the case that the European election is von der Leyen's to lose, ahead of Monday's (29 April) Spitzenkandidaten debate