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The US has banned the import of fresh bell peppers for consumption from Spain due to detection of the Mediterranean fruit fly, or 'Medfly', the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Aphis) of the US Department of Agriculture has reported.

The spillover effects from Russia's war in Ukraine will continue to dominate EU-Africa ties over the coming months, amid hints of a lower ambition on the EU side.

The Flemish region of Belgium, Flanders, will no longer force-feed animals to produce foie gras as the region after its last foie gras production plant closed at the start of 2023.

A unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to come into force on 6 January but the hours leading up to the temporary truce saw renewed fighting, with Kyiv rejecting the move as a trick.

The European Commission on Friday (6 January) adopted a proposal to give suppliers an extra four years to re-certify medical devices, to circumvent the risk of shortages.

The Digital Markets Act targets the largest technology companies in the world, which are also the main developers of Artificial Intelligence. For professor Philipp Hacker and other academics of the European New School of Digital Studies, the DMA might become...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “We believe our approach complies with GDPR – and previously, the DPC did not object to our approach. As...

Most EU citizens have a positive view of the EU’s free movement of labour, although only a minority actually intends to use the option. People with higher levels of education live and work abroad more than twice as often as those with lower levels of education.

A new EU-funded project has been launched by the UN’s Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the westernmost regions of Ukraine, but national stakeholders have warned funding is not directed towards those most hard-hit by war. 

A US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday (5 January), part of what the US military calls routine activity but which has riled China.

The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, President Joe Biden said on Thursday (5 January) in his first major speech on border security.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria preparing a cross-border operation against migrant trafficking, Spanish experts seeing no cause for alarm over China’s COVID-19 wave, and so much more.

Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday (4 January).

Ukraine dismissed as a trick a unilateral order by Russia for a 36-hour ceasefire starting on 6 January and the leaders of the US and Germany said they were sending armoured fighting vehicles in a boost for the Kyiv government.

Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Giorgia Meloni met with European People’s Party (EPP) leader Manfred Weber in Rome as the two leaders work toward an alliance ahead of the 2024 European elections. Weber,...

All dates after April are open to hold national elections, Greek media quoted government sources as saying. However, the “Greek Watergate” scandal indicate that the elections will be held in a toxic atmosphere.

Building on their long-lasting relationship as fossil energy supplier and buyer, Germany and Norway have agreed to a “green” partnership, which will likely rest on an ambitious project - one of Europe’s first hydrogen pipelines.

The Interior Ministry is preparing a major operation against migrant traffickers together with Turkey, Bulgarian Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev announced on Thursday. The issue of guarding the Bulgarian border with Turkey has a direct bearing on the country’s membership in...

Agricultural exports to the Balkan region and the European Union from Albania increased to over €473 million during 2022, the highest value ever, according to Agriculture Minister Frida Krifca. Compared to 2021, agricultural exports increased by 15.6% in volume and...

The NATO-led international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR, dismantled the last remaining roadblocks and barricades in the north of the country on Thursday, bringing a seeming end to weeks of closed roads and border crossing points with Serbia. The situation...