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EC President Ursula von der Leyen stated in April that: “Europe needs massive investment to jump-start our economies”. She said, “We need a Marshall Plan for Europe’s recovery and it needs to be put in place immediately.” She wants to...

In Germany, there has been a shortage of doctors for years. The coronavirus crisis shows how the country has profited from immigration in recent years. EURACTIV Germany reports.

During a plenary session starting Wednesday MEPs will look at how the EU budget can help Europe exit the Covid-19 crisis and will also vote on new tyre labelling rules.

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During a plenary session starting Wednesday MEPs will look at how the EU budget can help Europe exit the Covid-19 crisis and will also vote on new tyre labelling rules.

Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

A European Commission study on the effectiveness of the EU's code of practice against disinformation has criticised the self-regulatory nature of the framework, suggesting that "sanctions and redress mechanisms" should be put into place in order to ensure compliance with the rules.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about why the presidential elections didn't take place in Poland, German protesters demonstrating against the coronavirus restrictions, and so much more.

In the wake of an escalating global oil industry crisis, drastic global energy law reforms are more needed than ever in order to salvage a viable energy transition, argue Vicente López-Ibor Mayor and Raphael Heffron.

Serbia’s foreign affairs ministry has sent North Macedonia’s chargé d’affaires in Belgrade a protest note for printing and publishing a postal stamp displaying a map of the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi puppet state during the Second World War,...

Linking biomass policy to key EU policy sectors such as agriculture would create a win-win situation that would help the bloc deliver its Green Deal goals and create a sustainable market, a number of stakeholders told EURACTIV.com.

Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko has said that the definitive solution to the Kosovo issue should be determined in the UN Security Council with a new resolution to replace Resolution 1244. One of the conditions to solving the Kosovo...

The European Commission is to contract a study on the gatekeeping, or market-dominating, power of digital platforms in a bid to gather evidence which could feed into the upcoming Digital Services Act, documents seen by EURACTIV reveal.

The ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ, EPP) is having big plans for their very popular health minister Vili Beroš, but the party is yet to determine the position it has reserved for the country’s most popular minister. According to an...

The three highest-ranked constitutional officials – President Zuzana Čaputová, Prime Minister Igor Matovič (OĽaNO) and parliament speaker Boris Kollár (We are family) – signed a declaration about cooperation on matters of foreign policy on the occasion of the Europe Day....

Poland’s presidential elections did not take place on Sunday (10 May) as scheduled, despite the ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) having sidelined the National Electoral Committee and attempting to organise elections itself. After days of hectic talks and disagreements...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged on Saturday (9 May) people living in regions due to start the first stage of loosening the national lockdown and about to enjoy some freedoms after having been under lockdown since the state of alarm came into effect on 14 March to remain prudent.

Italy's government is readying new measures to support companies struggling due to the coronavirus crisis, including tax incentives and hybrid bonds, and aims to access the European Recovery Fund in the second half of the year, Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri said on Sunday (10 May).

The less than satisfactory handling of the coronavirus crisis has negatively affected the EU’s popularity in Finland according to a survey published last week by business and policy think tank EVA.

Life may never again be like it was back in January and February before the first cases of COVID-19 hit Belgium, Belgian Health Minister Maggie De Block said over the weekend as the country prepares for shops to be reopened from Monday (11 May) and people will be allowed to meet up with up to four other people.

France kickstarted its gradual deconfinement plan on 11 May. However, the strategy has already been criticised for being risky by the right, the extreme right, the extreme left, but also by teachers and the CGT-FO, which is one of the country's five major confederation unions.

Thousands protested coronavirus restrictions and accused politicians and medical experts of fear-mongering and curtailing citizens’ fundamental rights in major cities across Germany over the weekend, refusing to respect social distancing rules or wear masks, despite the country’s recent easing of...