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Spain will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 terrorist attacks on four commuter trains which killed 193 people and injured nearly 2,000 and sparked a bitter political row over who was responsible for the massacre.

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Renaissance’s EU list leader Valérie Hayer launched the party’s European election campaign in front of around 3,000 supporters and government members in Lille on Saturday.

Angelini Pharma's CSO Rafal Kaminski, underscores the rising burden of brain diseases, advocating global attention to brain health. The Headway initiative is presented as a collaborative platform promoting harmonization programs and European guidelines, emphasizing science's crucial role in evidence-based decision-making.

Envoys from key nations will meet Monday (11 March) in the Caribbean to address the spiraling situation in Haiti, as gang violence crippled the impoverished island nation's capital and forced foreign diplomats to flee over the weekend.

The Portuguese didn't respond to the calls for a “useful vote” in Sunday's legislative elections, resulting in the “most fragmented parliament ever” and with far right Chega being the “big winner”, according to political experts who spoke to Euractiv’s partner Lusa.

A ship carrying tonnes of food for Gaza remained docked in a Cyprus port on Sunday (10 March) as preparations were underway to launch a yet untested maritime aid route to the enclave, where the UN estimates a quarter of the population faces starvation.

The EU’s 2035 ban on new cars with internal combustion engines is the least popular climate protection measure in Germany, France, and Poland, even among voters of centre-left parties, a new survey conducted in the three countries showed.

On the very first episode of our daily podcast Today in the EU, we are taking a deep dive into the upcoming European Parliamentary elections.

In a bid to stem massive layoffs in Sweden’s emergency hospitals, the Swedish government wants to allocate an extra €530 million to the health sector. But the opposition and Swedens regions say it's not enough.

Fresh from a company merger, Novonesis CEO Ester Baiget came to Brussels with an important ask – to create a level playing field for biosolutions; arguing it makes no sense to treat enzymes and proteins as if they were manmade.

Bulgaria's lack of a comprehensive strategy for rare diseases now poses a serious risk to patient health. Insufficient screening has left Bulgarians with rare diseases diagnosed late, or not at all, while fewer orphan drugs are available on average.

Belgian MEP Frederique Ries has proposed tailoring market exclusivity periods for orphan drugs to foster innovation, advocating a 12-year exclusivity period for orphan drug indications lacking authorised medicinal products in the EU.

In this week's edition: A European defence battle, a Nordic security shift and more.

Armenia is considering applying for European Union membership, foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday (8 March), as it seeks to forge closer ties with the West in the face of tensions with traditional ally Russia.

False GPS signals that deceive on-board plane systems and complicate the work of airline pilots are surging near conflict zones, industry employees and officials said.

A defiant and bitter Donald Trump returned on Saturday (9 March) to the state where he faces criminal charges for undermining the 2020 US presidential election, looking to win the battleground of Georgia as a stepping-stone to taking back the presidency.

US, French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday (9 March) after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune and US destroyers in the region, the US military said in a statement.

The US embassy in Russia warned that "extremists" had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow, hours after Russian security services said they had foiled a planned shooting at a synagogue by a cell from the Afghan arm of Islamic State.

Turkey is ready to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia to end the war, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday (8 March) after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Istanbul.

A draft Eurogroup statement, obtained by Euractiv, outlines multiple “imperative and urgent” reforms that ministers want to be “taken forward” by the next European Commission