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Farming initiatives at COP27 will be dominated by agri-business players and will lack farmers’ voices, sustainable campaigners and small-holders organisations have warned ahead of the global summit’s day devoted to agriculture.

The candidate countries for EU membership must be fully in line with the European Media Freedom Act, which in the meantime needs improving, writes Antoaneta Nikolova.

The EU’s cyber defence policy was presented by the EU executive and diplomatic branches on Thursday (10 November) as a response to rising geopolitical tensions resulting from Russian aggression in Ukraine. The cyber defence policy is a strategic document intended...

The European Parliament and EU member states reached agreement late on Thursday (10 November) on a new law regulating the contribution of the forestry and land use sector to the EU’s 2030 climate goals.

The EU’s proposal for a Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is the first horizontal regulation to introduce security requirements for connected devices and related services. However, the draft regulation has promoted a debate about the type of products that should be...

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk on 10 November raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a US privacy regulator and the exit of the company's safety leader.

Verkor, a French e-battery start-up, inaugurated its innovation centre in Grenoble on Wednesday (9 November), with backing from government officials, key industry players and a €49 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Slovakia on Thursday (10 November) stepped up pressure on the Czech Republic to ease border controls in place for weeks to combat an increase in the number of migrants, mostly from Syria, who are heading to Germany and Western Europe.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reiterating her commitment to NATO, Slovakia's defence minister pointing to all countries exporting goods the Russian military uses, and so much more.

Ukrainian troops have reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements abandoned by Russian forces in southern Ukraine, officials said, the day after Moscow announced its withdrawal from the strategic capital city of Kherson province.

Production costs fuelled by the current energy crisis are reaching record highs, making it very hard for France's malt industry, the top exporter in Europe and the second-largest in the world, to keep delivering to brewers.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has expressed confidence of using a new “window of opportunity” to finally reach an agreement on the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol after holding talks with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin. 

The EU and France are set to press Kosovo and Serbia to discuss proposals to normalise ties in the latest episode of the region’s explosive will-they-won’t-they when the Balkan leaders meet in Paris on Friday. However, analysts are not convinced...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, also ECR Party President, picked Brussels for her first official visit abroad, unlike her predecessors who have generally flown to Washington. According to some, this may appear in tension with her political vision centered on Italy’s national interest, you will find that not to be.

Italian media has unveiled a plan to see Albanian water sold to Italy via an underwater pipeline to a region suffering from water shortages.

Turkey will lead a summit of Central Asian countries on Friday (11 November), aiming to strengthen economic ties with the region's resource-rich ex-Soviet states while Moscow is distracted by the war in Ukraine.

The European Commission gave a positive preliminary assessment on Thursday of Croatia’s request for €700 million in grants under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the second instalment for the country. “I have good news for Croatia. Croatia has made...

A dysfunctional fence, a lack of border policemen and poor and insufficient equipment were among the problems Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev raised during a parliamentary hearing convened Thursday to discuss the recent death of a border policeman. The hearing occurred...

War in Ukraine and the need to ensure food self-sufficiency should push the European Commission to speed up work on the new genomic techniques, centre-right Czech MEP Michaela Šojdrová (KDU-ČSL, EPP) told EURACTIV.cz. New genomic techniques are scientific methods altering...

EU lawmakers will soon hold a public hearing to present lawmakers with a list of the women who reportedly died due to tightened abortion laws which created a de facto ban. The hearing will be held on 17 November before...