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European Health Data Space (EHDS) focuses on the primary and secondary use of data. While the primary use of data is data used by citizens and healthcare professionals at the national and EU levels the secondary data is to be used...

The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is still waiting for current EU Commission chief Von der Leyen to decide whether she wants to re-run for the top job after the 2024 EU elections. Her silence has sparked a hot debate...

The Swedish Centre against Violent Extremism (CVE) has called for Sweden to amend its Public Order Act to ensure public events such as Quran burnings can be banned if they threaten national security. There has been an uproar in the...

Flanders’ aims to make the NT2 language test compulsory for non-EU citizens from 1 September 2023 may face political obstacles and hard-to-reach deadlines that would make it difficult to adopt. The NT2 test, which assesses proficiency in Dutch as a...

The Irish government improved its support for companies switching to solar power on Tuesday, opening up an ongoing scheme providing grants for solar photovoltaic installations to a broader range of businesses. Story updated to correct unit of measurement and statistic The...

Austria’s climate target for 2030 will not be reached in time, the National Energy and Climate Plan (NEKP) revealed on Tuesday.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his Luxembourgish counterpart Xavier Bettel advocated for de-escalation between Serbia and Kosovo on Wednesday at the end of their two-day visit to Serbia and Kosovo. The two-day trip comes amid simmering tensions in the...

Armed masked men attacked and seriously injured a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer in the Russian region of Chechnya on Tuesday morning (4 July) after forcing their car to stop, the journalist, her employer and rights groups said.

The EU legislation on soils and nutrient management should promote balanced fertilization and effective soil management, ensuring fertility, productivity, and food security. Balanced fertilization and nitrogen use efficiency are vital to maintain healthy soils and sustainable agricultural and food systems....

Far from the French government’s call for national unity, politicians, especially from the radical left and the majority, are bickering about their roles in instigating or calming the riots as tensions in the streets have begun to ease. “As calm...

Most EU countries are hesitant or actively against some of the key proposals of the bloc's proposed reform of its electoral law, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Swedish government, seen by EURACTIV.

EU lawmaker and head of the European Parliament’s trade committee Bernd Lange (S&D) is calling for taxes to be imposed on US-produced hydrogen – a move Lange views as the bloc’s response to the €370 billion US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) aimed at increasing green investments.

Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday (4 July) accused each other of plotting to stage an attack on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, long the subject of mutual recriminations and suspicions.

The Polish opposition should side with democracy and human dignity, socialist MEP Robert Biedroń (S&D) said about opposition leader Donald Tusk’s new election campaign spot, which he called ‘racist’ and ‘mindless’. Tusk, head of the centrist Civic Platform (PO) party,...

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader and prime minister candidate of centre-right Partido Popular (PP), called on the Socialist Party (PSOE) on Tuesday to let him govern if he wins the upcoming general elections in Spain, saying this would prevent the far-right...

The government needs to break up its national rail operator Deutsche Bahn to counter grave quality deficits of the railway system, the German Monopolies Commission warned on Tuesday. Germany privatised its national railway company in 1994, but the emerging company,...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez expressed support for a more federalised EU as his country recently took over the Spanish EU Council Presidency while backing the mandate renewals of EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General...

The number of cancer cases in France has doubled since 1990, according to the latest data from national health organisations, in part due to the changing demographic.

Hungary has all-but dropped its veto on Sweden's Nato entry, as Turkey dials down rhetoric despite a Koran-burning scandal.

Kazakhstan is “completely dependent” on Russia when it comes to balancing energy needs and the best solution is to create a transnational electricity grid in Central Asia, similar to the one in Europe, a Kazakh expert told a Brussels audience on Tuesday (4 July).