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EU negotiators met on Wednesday (19 July) to hash out the details of the EU’s Nature Restoration Law, following a nail-biting victory for the proposal in the European Parliament last week.

Local and regional authorities across Europe have a big role to play in facilitating the green transition and creating a clean energy supply. Citizens, SMEs and stakeholders should have the opportunity to invest and be involved in local power generation facilities, writes Josef Frey.

In this edition, of the EU Politics Decoded, we look at the long-term consequences of the EU's decision to pursue cash-for-migrant-control deals with Tunisia and, in the future, other North African states.

Frans Timmermans will leave the European Commission to run for the leadership of the combined Labour and Green Left parties in a Dutch national election in November, newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Thursday (20 July).

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Before we start, a little service announcement. This is the last issue ahead of the summer break. The next issue...

Beset by a woeful economy and struggling to shore up support, Erdoğan finds it increasingly difficult to maintain a neutral position between Russia and the US as he signals a realignment with the West, writes Tan Albayrak.

The EU warned the authorities of the increasingly defiant Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Wednesday (20 July) to cease divisive rhetoric and actions or face "serious consequences".

Work on pressuring Russia to stop its war on Ukraine must continue, even at a national level when the EU cannot, Jan Marian deputy foreign minister of the Czech Republic, told EURACTIV in an interview on Monday (3 June).

The rise of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Midjourney AI, able to produce incredibly realistic content, poses an unprecedented challenge to the creative sector. We discuss what this new generation of Artificial Intelligence means for this sector and human...

Spain, the current holder of the EU Council presidency, has been accused of undermining the adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe following the circulation of a discussion paper that questions the EU's approach.

The White House warned on Wednesday (19 July) that Russia may expand its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

The European Parliament's minimalist approach to reforming the bloc's electricity market has been warmly welcomed by Germany’s energy industry, who lobbied strongly against parts of the proposal.

This week on EURACTIV’s Beyond the Byline podcast looks into the hotly contested nature restoration law, recently passed by a narrow margin within the EU. Aligned with President Ursula von der Leyen’s ambitious European Green Deal, this legislation aims to...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany bettting on India to counter dependence on China, Bulgaria to end Russian control over key Black Sea oil port, and so much more.

Albanians believe their country is corrupt more than any other nationality in the Western Balkans, according to the result of the Regional Cooperation Council Balkan Barometer Survey 2023, but they also pin hopes on EU accession before 2030 as a...

Russia’s withdrawal from the grain deal will affect the whole world, including Serbia, according to EURACTIV agro-economic analyst Žarko Galetin. The grain deal, brokered by the UN and Turkey in July of last year, was supposed to ease the global...

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met in Romania on Wednesday, although it was not on the Romanian PM’s agenda, and there was no official announcement. Romania’s Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu, and the leader of...

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová withdrew the mandate of now-former Interior Minister Ivan Šimko following his two-week-long dispute with police leadership. The dispute began with the minister criticising police work in some open criminal cases. Later, in a series of social...

The European Commission wants to keep the Just Transition Fund for European coal regions in the next programming period beyond 2027 if the programme succeeds in the current one – something Czechia’s coal regions are clearly pleased about.

The far-right VOX laughs at women and denies the existence of gender violence, the progressive bloc that unites Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE) and the Sumar platform said in Wednesday’s last election debate ahead of Sunday’s crunch vote....