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President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (22 February) that China's Xi Jinping would visit Russia, saying relations had reached "new frontiers" amid US concerns that Beijing could provide material support to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This week, EURACTIV’s health team dig into the European Parliament’s role in the ongoing saga on the transparency of the COVID-19 vaccine contracts between the European Commission and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer with MEP Tilly Metz.

Belgium said it is investigating the presence of a Russian "spy ship" in the North Sea, a day after its neighbour the Netherlands reported that Russia was targeting North Sea infrastructure.

While attempting to bring together the EU's environmental ambitions and the economic viability of its fisheries sector, the measures proposed by the Commission have been labelled as insufficient by blue NGOs and as devastating by the industry.

The West must boost its military support for Ukraine to defeat the regime of Vladimir Putin, who will always be "a source of war, aggression and destabilisation", the only Russian diplomat to have resigned in protest over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine told EURACTIV’s partner EFE.

Germany's agriculture ministry is pushing for more organic food in canteens and restaurants in a first step towards achieving the coalition's 2030 goal of ensuring 30% of arable land is dedicated to organic farming.

While the industry is getting a thorough makeover through the green and digital transition,  Europe’s population is getting older. Some of the skills needed to sustain the European economy will have to come through immigration from third countries, which the Commission is trying to facilitate with a number of proposals.

The Green Deal Industrial Plan, published on 1 February by the European Commission, promotes a more supportive environment for the deployment of clean-tech manufacturing capacity to meet Europe’s ambitious green targets which the ECGA welcomes.

The Swedish presidency of the EU Council circulated the fifth compromise text on the Data Act, obtained by EURACTIV, introducing the possibility of refusing data-sharing requests if they risk causing severe economic harm. The Data Act is a flagship legislation...

Microsoft has signed fresh deals with Nintendo and Nvidia in the hopes of averting a move by the Commission to block its proposed $69 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard. 

India reiterated its stance on the war in Ukraine on Wednesday (22 February), saying it was time for dialogue and diplomacy, as finance officials from the Group of 20 (G20) started a meeting near the southern city of Bengaluru.

We all remember the images of atrocities in Bucha, Irpin and other Ukrainian cities after Russian troops were forced to withdraw from northern Ukraine in March 2022. The Kremlin-linked paramilitary group Wagner, responsible for those war crimes, was recognised as a Transnational Criminal Organisation by the United States.

Once the EUs new space-based secure communication system is operational, it could be offered to help third countries like Ukraine and reduce their dependence on a single provider, Ekaterini Kavvada, the director of development and innovation at the Commission's DG DEFIS, told EURACTIV.

Although Russia’s war in Ukraine has united the West, it also revealed a fragmentation of the global order, a new survey has found. The poll, conducted by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), surveyed opinions in nine EU member...

Under pressure from EU countries to tackle rising electricity bills, the European Commission is somewhat reluctantly fetching the key to Pandora’s box - and hoping it doesn’t release too many evils in the process, writes Kira Taylor.

Investigations by Denmark, Germany and Sweden into explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines have not yet concluded, the three countries said on Tuesday (21 February) as the UN Security Council met to discuss the September incident.

Russia has urged UN states to vote against an "unbalanced and anti-Russian" move at the General Assembly by Ukraine and others to mark one year since Moscow invaded, as China said on 21 February it could release a "position paper" on the war within days.

Fresh from his visit to Ukraine, US President Joe Biden will rally NATO’s eastern allies in Poland on Wednesday (22 February), a group of countries in which most – but not all – are strong supporters of military aid to Ukraine.

The German government is looking to acquire shares in renewable energy firms and provide support to wind turbine and solar panel manufacturers in order to encourage their production in Germany.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the EU Prosecutor's Office in Sofia having a serious staffing problem, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stressing her government's pro-Ukraine stance, and so much more.