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Strengthening and protecting the EU’s external borders has been Europe’s narrative to tackle migration for several years now. But what Europe has never explained is what it actually means by that. In the meantime, the body count in the Mediterranean...

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong said resolutions passed by the European Parliament on Thursday (16 June) related to the Chinese controlled territory were a "despicable act" and "trampled" on the principles of international law.

Warsaw does not support allowing huge masses of migrants to move into the EU, nor does it agree to what it calls fees for rejecting migrants after receiving practically no help from the EU in dealing with the incoming migration...

Bulgaria is getting closer to making a US nuclear reactor after the Bulgarian nuclear power plant Kozloduy signed an official engineering contract for Front-End Engineering and Design of a nuclear reactor using the AP-1000 technology with Westinghouse on Wednesday.

Spain wants to seal an ambitious pact on migration and asylum during the upcoming EU Council presidency, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Thursday, adding that European countries cannot be divided on the matter because ‘we are all victims of...

The socialist party PSOE has denounced media companies ABC, El Mundo and El Español, and poll-making companies Sigma2, GAD3, and SOCIOMETRA before the Central Electoral Board (JEC) for publishing polls omitting information and giving Partido Popular (PP) a “far superior”...

Romania’s new government will launch an extended plan in the coming months to get Austria to remove its veto on the country’s long-desired Schengen accession, social democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu told EURACTIV.com in an exclusive and one of the...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is due to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday for a working lunch, while NGOs accuse Macron of being the main architect of bin Salman’s rehabilitation on the international scene. The two...

Rescuers scoured the seas off Greece on Thursday (15 June) following a shipwreck that killed at least 78 migrants, as hopes of survivors dwindled and fears grew that hundreds more, including children, may have drowned inside the crowded vessel's hold.

The Council of Europe has criticised the "restrictive application of the right of access to information" in some European countries, that contribute to a lack of transparency  and political corruption.

France will invest more money into artificial intelligence (AI) and green technologies to counter China and US dominance, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday (14 June), detailing his strategic vision.

The EU plan to cut pesticide use and risk in half by 2030 will have its largest impact on crops having 'little or no impact on food security', the European Commission predicted in its additional impact assessment requested by EU ministers.

With its first-ever target for CO2 geological storage, the European Commission's Net-Zero Industry Act has the potential to truly mitigate the effects of fossil fuels on the environment - but in order to be effective, the legislation needs to cover all oil and gas companies, write Kayla Cohen and Eli Mitchell-Larson.

In February, the European Commission launched an open consultation on the future of connectivity, questioning whether Europe is able to keep up the pace with telecom technological developments.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen criticised on Thursday (15 June) the EU's immigration policy and that of Italy's right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who she accused of making "concessions" to Brussels in exchange for post-COVID recovery funds.

All eyes are on Brussels where the European Commission is hard at work deciding the EU’s 2040 climate target, where the executive must balance demands for restraint by leaders with calls for extra ambition by civil society. EURACTIV analyses why...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief.

For what it’s worth, we read articles by Russian influencers about the war Vladimir Putin started in Ukraine. A recent one by Sergei Kaganov, a university professor and honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, suggests a disturbing endgame.

UK nationals cannot automatically retain rights as EU citizens after Brexit, the EU’s top court confirmed on Thursday (15 June).

The EU's Nature Restoration Law survived a vote to reject it in the European Parliament’s environment committee, but lawmakers ran out of time due to the thousands of amendments tabled, meaning the committee vote is being postponed until 27 June.