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Cement and steel companies are being warned by investors over their lobbying on planned European Union carbon costs, saying they are effectively asking to be compensated twice over.

Remarks by Mário Centeno following the Eurogroup videoconference of 9 April 2020 on the comprehensive economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 9 April 2020, the Eurogroup in inclusive format endorsed a report on the comprehensive economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The EU issued a declaration welcoming the release of the first report of the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team, and noted with great concern its conclusions.

The Council approved new rules to help the most deprived EU citizens during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The EU is taking further measures to refocus cohesion policy resources on tackling the effects of the pandemic.

Media advisory - Online press conference by Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Croatian Minister of Culture, after the video conference of culture and media ministers, 8 April 2020

The Council agreed its position on a legislative proposal amending the EU enforcement regulation in trade.

It is still very likely that Europe will face a new deadly spread of the virus next autumn or winter. Until a reliable vaccine and cure are in place, we all have to live in this new reality.

Demand for mental health support is likely to rise sharply in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The EU must act to protect and support its people, writes Claudia Marinetti.

Everybody is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. By its end, millions of Europeans will have lost a friend or a loved one. Millions more face a period of uncertainty about their job and finances. And all while confined to their...

Despite the agri-food chain have been under pressure in the past few weeks in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, there is no risk of food shortage provided that people behave appropriately, the head of the food retailers lobby told EURACTIV.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned Thursday (9 April) that the European integration project was at risk if EU member states do not find an economic response to the coronavirus crisis.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU in the global perspective from our foreign affairs news team: Georgi Gotev and Alexandra Brzozowski.

The coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth "sharply negative" in 2020, triggering the worst crisis since the 1930s great depression, with only a partial recovery seen in 2021, International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday. Georgieva said governments had already taken fiscal stimulus measures of $8 trillion, but more would be needed. She said the crisis would hit emerging markets and developing countries hardest, Reuters reported.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “Given all these divergences, the European Data Protection Supervisor calls for a pan-European model ‘COVID-19 mobile application’, coordinated at...

Although the coronavirus pandemic has shaken the entire eurozone and Europe's economic outlook seems uncertain, Greece’s international lenders do not seem prepared to make any fresh concessions to the country that is still recovering from years of austerity.

EU governments want the European Commission and regulators to take an “ambitious” approach when interpreting the flexibility of banking rules in the coronavirus period, to ensure that money flows to the real economy, according to a draft statement seen by EURACTIV.com.

German economy minister Peter Altmaier said Thursday he expected EU finance ministers meeting later in the day to make progress towards agreeing the €500bn coronavirus rescue package. Talks earlier in the week failed. "I have confidence that [German finance minister] Olaf Scholz, with his colleague [French finance minister] Bruno Le Maire, can push this forward today and we are all working on that together," he said.

Italian premier Giuseppe Conte said Thursday that the EU's failure to agree on a recovery plan for after the pandemic risks the existence of the bloc. "It's a big challenge to the existence of Europe," Conte said. "If Europe fails to come up with a monetary and financial policy adequate for the biggest challenge since World War Two, not only Italians but European citizens will be deeply disappointed," he added.