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The European Central Bank should not favour so-called "green" assets in its multi-trillion-euro bond-buying programme or its work as bank supervisor, incoming ECB board member Isabel Schnabel said in an interview published on Monday (30 December).

The expected showdown about the EU's post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the development of the bloc's new food strategy could set a cornerstone in the process of shaping Europe's agriculture in the decades to come.

Turkey is considering sending allied Syrian fighters to Libya as part of its planned military support for the embattled government in Tripoli, four senior Turkish sources said on Monday (30 December), with one adding that Ankara was leaning toward the idea.

Moscow and Kyiv on Monday (30 December) signed a five-year agreement on the transit of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, after months of difficult talks but just ahead of a looming New Year deadline.

Europe’s and Huawei’s joint journey is entering a new phase.

EXCLUSIVE: US sanctions will apply to any additional lines to the Russia-sponsored pipeline Turkish Stream, EURACTIV has learned. Serbia has already competed and Bulgaria is building expensive infrastructure to import gas from Turkish Stream and carry it further to Hungary and Austria.

From the commitment to fighting (and possibly defeating) cancer to the food labelling minefield, the bar will be set pretty high when it comes to health and food safety in 2020. Will the EU be able to live up all its over-ambitious promises?

At the heart of recent protest movements in Europe and elsewhere is a sense that economic growth has left many people worse off, even if, in most countries, the headline GDP figures suggest that countries are much wealthier.

The UK will leave the EU in January. But the Article 50 process was always supposed to be the easy bit. In 2020 talks will focus on post-Brexit trade relations, with a tight timetable and the threat of no deal.

The "2010s" will end together with 2019. European media take the opportunity to look back on a decade marked by crises and upheaval. Commentators take stock of how the world has faced up to these challenges.

Another summer of record temperatures, devastating forest fires, floods: in 2019 focus on the climate once again increased. The Fridays for Future protests spread across the globe. The new EU Commission is making climate protection a top priority. Commentators discuss whether the direction has really changed.

In 2019 people protested all over the world against corrupt governments and oppression, and for justice and climate protection. Will their protests bear fruit in the coming year?