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The future of fossil fuels – the leading source of planet-heating emissions – will face scrutiny at UN climate negotiations Monday (5 June) with an under-fire Emirati oil chief poised to step into the driver's seat.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the controversies at a recent meeting of EU agriculture ministers, including how the EU’s agriculture Commissioner is increasingly prioritising Polish issues, and discusses the pushback to the EU’s nature restoration law, both...

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the German far-right AfD catching up with Chancelor Olaf Scholz's SPD party, Finland and the US agreeing to cooperate on 6G technologies, and so much more.

The fifth “Serbia against violence” protest was held on Saturday, exactly one month after the first of two mass shootings, with protestors demanding the replacements of both Interior Minister Bratislav Gašić and the head of national intelligence agency BIA, Aleksandar...

Continuous inflationary pressure and higher interest rates will remain the main problem for the global economy next year, together with the overriding concern about longer-term growth prospects, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund told Croatian state broadcaster HRT...

Bulgaria’s parliament should punish Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of Bulgarian pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane, mayors of municipalities with a Bulgarian population in Ukraine’s Odesa wrote in a letter published Friday, reacting to Kostadinov threatening to deport all Ukrainian refugees from Bulgaria if...

The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said.

The export of Albanian olive oil has quadrupled in 2023 when compared to the rate it sold in 2022, according to the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Arian Jaupllari, due in part to droughts in Spain and Italy resulting in lower...

Left-wing parties Sumar and Unidas Podemos will ally and are eyeing to join forces with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s PSOE to avoid a future government of centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP) and the far-right party VOX (ECR), according to Yolanda Díaz,...

EU reindustrialisation and the creation of ‘green jobs’ are among top priorities of the liberal family ahead the next EU elections, the President of Renew Europe group Stéphane Séjourné told EURACTIV in a video interview.

Slovakia’s new technocratic government is renegotiating its recovery plan with the European Commission after admitting that the €281 million project for an 800-bed hospital in Bratislava could not be finished before the 2026 deadline. The Razsochy Hospital was initially planned...

About 500,000 people marched through Warsaw to protest the current Law and Justice (PIS) government, following a call by opposition leader and former European Council president Donald Tusk ahead of this year’s upcoming election. The massive rally took place on...

The EU is defining the future of circular beverage packaging as we speak. We have entered now an intense legislative cycle with thousands of amendments being tabled by the European Parliament to the proposal for an EU Packaging and Packaging...

Home affairs ministers will work on trying to clinch a common position among EU governments on the migration management system regulation and the asylum procedure regulation, two key parts of the bloc's asylum reform.

RAF Typhoon fighter jets and Army Air Corps Apache helicopters concluded a training exercise off the coast of Estonia on Friday, where they practised firing heavy machine guns and advanced missiles, alongside over 10,000 personnel from 11 NATO countries, according...

France has made energy sufficiency – the deliberate reduction of energy consumption – one of the three pillars of its decarbonisation strategy, alongside nuclear and renewables. However, Brussels and other European capitals have yet to fully embrace the approach.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) addressed criticism from members of his own party for lack of a clear-cut plan on the country’s migration crisis during a party congress on Saturday, stating he remains cautions to ensure ‘stability of the cabinet’....

Russia said on Monday (5 June) that its forces had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive at five points along the front in the southern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops.

Germany’s far-right party AfD has now caught up with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) as the two are polling at 19% in latest opinion polls, while the leading opposition party, the conservative union of CDU and CSU, is polling...

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called the recent violence in the north of Kosovo a push to divide the country or create a version of Republika Srpska, while former foreign minister Meliza Haradinaj said Kosovo should review EU participation in...