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Spain's King Felipe VI has renounced his personal inheritance from his father Juan Carlos I and cut the former monarch's annual stipend from the royal budget. The move came after an investigation was launched into an offshore fund set up by Juan Carlos. The move is being interpreted as a break between the king and his father - but will Felipe be able to rescue the royal family's prestige?

The public debate on genetic engineering in agriculture is largely characterised by misinformation, myths and a confused understanding of nature, writes plant breeding and gene editing expert, Professor Hans-Jörg Jacobsen (PhD).

There are only a few months left until Germany will take over the EU Presidency. But the ongoing corona crisis could really upset the plans, says the president of the European Movement Germany. What can the EU actually do in these turbulent times?

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has launched a probe into the resilience of the bloc's attempts to stifle fake news that can 'cause public harm,' the institution announced on Tuesday (17 March).

Iran has temporarily freed a total of 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, a spokesman for its judiciary said on Tuesday, adding that the prisons were responding to the threat of a coronavirus epidemic in jails, the Guardian writes. "Some 50 percent of those released are security-related prisoners [political prisoners]. Also in the jails we have taken precautionary measures to confront the outbreak," the spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said.

**This article is continuously updated with the latest developments. With the new Belgian emergency government taking the last hurdles in the confirmation process, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes’ team is mulling further measures in the fight against the cornavirus outbreak. As of...

France's finance minister said Tuesday (17 March) that he was willing to nationalise large companies to protect them from bankruptcy, while warning that the country faces recession this year as the coronavirus epidemic sinks the economy.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Transport Brief – your one port of call for all the news moving the world and much more! This week: coronavirus updates, big changes in the auto world and space race problems.

Governments around the world are demonstrating – all too evidently – that they are unable to tackle two major crises at once, writes Jonathan Gornall.

Energy major Total has lifted the lid on a project that aims to construct the largest battery storage facility in France. It could help boost the growth of intermittent renewable power in the French energy mix.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about French President Emmanuel Macron saying we are currently "at war" with COVID-19, the Romanian government being formed amidst a health crisis, and so much more.

Employers organisations insisted during a meeting with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev that the state should pay immediately all its pending debts to companies so that they could have fresh money during the COVID-19 crisis. “We need complex measures to keep...

The new Slovak government will be installed on Saturday (March 21). Outgoing Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) promised the transfer of power will be courteous and dignified. New Prime Minister Igor Matovič (OĽaNO)  has said his government will not have...

Poland now has 177 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Monday with four deaths so far. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced the suspension of domestic air travel, as well as the closing of borders, which was part of a government...