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The European Commission is by the end of the year set to propose new rules subjecting companies to stricter controls in a bid to encourage them to ensure suppliers respect human rights and do not harm the environment.

The use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) as a therapeutic option, despite its ups and downs, has shown the European Union's renewed interest in plasma-derived medicinal products (PDMPs).

Plasma-derived medicinal products (PDMPs), derived from human plasma from healthy donors, are essential for around 300,000 European patients who rely on these therapies to treat a variety of rare, chronic, and potentially life-threatening conditions, which are often genetic in origin....

France's competition authority has given the go-ahead for Apple's new privacy protocols to be implemented, stating that the move does not "constitute an abuse of a dominant position," as part of a decision issued on Wednesday (17 March).  

Spain is the “vegetable garden of Europe” and the sector remains competitive thanks to a combination of quality, innovation and meeting consumer demands, the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, told EURACTIV’s partner EFE agro in a video interview. With...

Australia said it will ask the European Union to release 1 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to help Papua New Guinea (PNG) battle a dangerous outbreak that authorities fear could spread to other parts of the region.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Turkey promising to send vaccines to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa vetoing the parliament's draft euthanasia bill, and so much more.

Germany said on Tuesday it had met its national climate goal for 2020 with 40.8% fewer emissions compared to 1990. But that would not have been possible without the coronavirus-related lockdowns, which helped to drive the biggest reduction in emissions...

Dutch voters go to the polls on Wednesday (17 March) for the last day of a three-day parliamentary election, in which Prime Minister Mark Rutte is aiming for a fourth term in office.

EU leaders will press the Commission to make swift progress in the establishment of sectoral data spaces as outlined in the executive's landmark Data Strategy, draft European Council summit conclusions obtained by EURACTIV reveal.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told reporters after meeting with his Serbian counterpart Nikola Selaković in Belgrade on Tuesday, that Serbia and Hungary did not allow the issue of vaccines to be politicised. “We did not accept that someone who...

The Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine is the most trusted COVID-19 vaccine among Slovenians and is followed by the single-dose vaccine Johnson & Johnson, a poll conducted by Valicon shows, and more than half of Slovenians (56%) intend to get vaccinated, the Slovenian...

The Bulgarian government is likely to announce a third national lockdown on Monday as the country is hit hard by the third wave of the pandemic, which has left more than 7,000 patients in the country’s hospitals, and approximately 4,600...

Turkey has promised to deliver 30,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Sarajevo, announced President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who on Tuesday received Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency members in Ankara. Turkey’s president also stressed that one of Turkey’s aims is...

Eight participants have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Olympic-Qualifying Budapest World Cup Sabre, which was the first international fencing event after an almost year-long hiatus, Telex reported via 444.hu. Team members including participants, referees, doctors and VIP guests could...

Poland’s development, labour and technology ministry has planned two video conferences this week to speak to representatives of the events and gastronomy industries about the sector’s demands,  Deputy Minister Olga Semeniuk announced on Tuesday. The deputy minister emphasised that the...

After Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová met with Prime Minister Igor Matovič on Tuesday to ask what steps he intends to take towards ending Slovakia’s current coalition crisis, which has been ongoing for three weeks, the PM offered little insight into how...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday (17 March) that China was acting aggressively and repressively, citing its actions in the East and South China Seas where it has territorial disputes with Japan and other Asian nations.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has vetoed a bill decriminalising euthanasia on the grounds that it is unconstitutional two hours after the Constitutional Court announced that it had declared the bill, under which the request to obtain a medically...

The €2.9 billion Finland will receive from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility will be divided between three sectors with 50% of the funding going to enhancing the green transition, and the remaining funds divided between digitalisation and research and...