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Official German politics has shown a professionally arrogant disregard for Emmanuel Macron's reform ideas. Now the French president is retaliating. EURACTIV’s media partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

YouTube has a systemic 'bias towards keeping content up,' although the video-sharing platform recently removed more than one million channels for violation of its policies as part of the EU's code of practice against disinformation, EURACTIV has learnt.

On the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day (3 May 2019), the EU issued a declaration recalling that the essential role of a free press not only as a conveyer of reliable and accurate news, but as a pillar of democracy.

The EU issued a declaration deeply regretting the full activation of the 1996 Helms-Burton (LIBERTAD) Act by the United States and stating that this will cause unnecessary friction and undermines trust and predictability in the transatlantic partnership.

Central Europe falls under the EU average of electric vehicle market penetration. But it doesn’t want to be left behind by the global trend, leaping into battery production and dreaming even bigger. EURACTIV's network partners report.

May 1, 2004 saw the biggest enlargement in the history of the EU: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, as well as Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus joined the bloc and the single market. Not everything has gone as planned since the new members joined, commentators observe.

Trade Unions in many European cities mobilised demonstrations to mark May 1, International Workers' Day, yesterday. In Germany protesters called for a more social Europe, in Paris riots overshadowed the rallies and in Istanbul dozens of marchers were arrested. Commentators discuss which topics workers' representatives should be focusing on in today's world.

Merkel and Macron have brought the representatives of eight Balkan states together in Berlin with the aim of making progress in the dispute between Serbia and Kosovo. Also in attendance was EU Foreign Affairs High Representative Federica Mogherini, who recently proposed a land swap as a way of resolving the issue. Berlin is against this solution, and rightly so, commentators say, asking what Europe's strategy for the Balkan region is.

In most countries the campaigns for the European Parliament elections are revolving around national issues. In Spain for instance, it's all about the Catalonia issue, in Poland the focus is on the teachers' strike, and in the UK the big question is whether it will participate at all. Many commentators would like to see politicians put European and international issues in the foreground, and make proposals for what those issues should be.