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The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously adopted and sent to parliament the draft law on the prevention of conflicts of interest in the state institutions, one of the key reform laws the EU insists on so the European Council can decide on opening accession negotiations by the end of this month, they announced on Wednesday.

The Slovak Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Slovakia, claiming that the Dutch had interfered in Slovakia’s internal affairs by offering the premises of their embassy in Prague for a discussion on the political situation in Slovakia.

Plans for constructing a gigafactory for the production of batteries for electric cars worth €7.9 billion by a foreign investor - whose name is being withheld - in the Karviná region were disclosed by the Czech government on Thursday.

Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski’s announcement of major changes to the European Green Deal is his own view and does not reflect the position of the EU executive, a Commission spokesman said on Thursday.

The EU’s new and evolving forest monitoring framework has lawmakers contesting the benefits of harvesting optimum broad data sets, weighted against cost burdens for the forestry industry in acquiring the data.

The US military will establish a temporary port off Gaza's coast to bring in desperately needed aid, President Joe Biden announced Thursday (7 March), in a major operation as Israel holds up deliveries on the ground.

On the International Women's Day, the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions calls upon cities and regions to adopt an ambitious plan to combat violence against women with concrete measures. Join the campaign

A victory for the right-wing bloc in Sunday’s general elections in Portugal is the most likely scenario, but there is uncertainty whether there will be a need for an agreement with the far-right Chega party, according to two political analysts who spoke to Euractiv’s partner Lusa, adding that there could be ‘surprises’.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party, which leads a minority left-wing coalition government with the progressive Sumar platform, reached a final deal with Catalan pro-independence parties to pardon separatist leaders in exchange for their parliamentary support to keep Sánchez in power until the end of his second term in 2027.

Italy’s record public debt – one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios in the world – is not a cause for concern as the country is still on the right track, the OECD’s Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Carmine di Niola, told Euractiv in an interview.

President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday (7 March), accusing his election rival of threatening US democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four more years in the White House.

UK’s Foreign Minister David Cameron visited his counterpart, Annalena Bearbock, in Berlin on Thursday to discuss, among other things, support for Ukraine, including the provision of long-range missile systems.

The fight for women’s rights over the past fifty years is a story of progress. But that progress is under threat and full equality remains light years away, writes António Guterres.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva is interested in a second five-year term heading up the global lender and is poised to secure sufficient support among member countries, sources familiar with the plans said.

Together with Lazar Radic, Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University, we discuss this year’s tech competition news so far

The ECB on Thursday (7 March) held interest rates at their current record high levels, despite also slashing its growth and inflation projections for the eurozone, with ECB president Christine Lagarde claiming the bank is not “sufficiently confident” on wage and profit data to begin cutting rates.

Aviation industry stakeholders are displeased with the revised text of the Single European Sky (SES), informally adopted by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament on Wednesday (6 March), stating that the agreement does not go far enough to reduce delays or improve air travel capacity.

France's national health and food safety agency published a report on Wednesday (6 March) recommending that gene-edited plants be assessed "on a case-by-case basis", calling into question a legal text currently being negotiated in the EU institutions.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reaffirmed his readiness to seal a long-stalled trade deal between the EU and the Mercosur bloc during a meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Brasilia on Wednesday (6 March). 

The adoption of the platform work directive by member states in the next few days is highly uncertain, with Paris refusing to agree to the current text draft – and the French left is ready to put it at the heart of its campaign agenda.