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The European Commission on Wednesday (28 June) called for international talks on the dangers and governance of geoengineering, saying such interventions to alter the climate posed "unacceptable" risks.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany signalling an openness to chip in for the EU budget, Slovenian primary schools preparing to offer low-income kids free meals, and so much more.

German MEP Michael Gahler and Austrian MEP Thomas Waltz criticised the EU’s envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajčák, during Wednesday’s meeting of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET), citing a failure in progress and the bloc’s one-sided approach...

School meals will be free for primary school children from poor-income households from September, and for all primary school children from 1 September 2027, according to a bill that got unanimous backing in parliament on Wednesday. The bill that an...

Romanian lawmakers passed the special pension reform requested by the European Commission on Wednesday, though several last-minute changes diluted the law. The special pension reform is an essential milestone for Romania’s third payment request under the national recovery plan. While...

The €5 million support Slovak farmers will be compensated for the losses they incurred following the recent influx of agricultural goods from Ukraine is small compared to the actual calculated loss of €200 million, Slovakia’s Agriculture Minister Jozef Bíreš said...

Polish President Andrzej Duda and his Lithuanian and Ukrainian counterparts, Gitanas Nausėda and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss the importance of strengthening NATO’s presence on the Eastern Flank, ahead of the NATO summit in Vilnius. As...

Uncertainties over nuclear capacity in France will likely result in electricity prices remaining high over the coming winter, France's energy regulator, RTE, has warned amid forecasts pointing to electricity prices in the EU soon seeing a downward trend.

 Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa stressed the importance of concluding the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur as it is a priority to deepen Portuguese-Brazilian relations, he said during a discussion with Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin on Wednesday....

Italian opposition parties are up in arms and have called the coalition government’s decision to postpone the much-awaited ratification of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the Eurozone’s bailout fund, embarrassing.

Ireland needs to restore its nature and address climate change to tackle the wildlife loss, water stress and rising sea temperatures it is currently experiencing, Ireland’s climate and environment minister Eamon Ryan told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

The constant growing of illicit tobacco trade in the EU causes tax losses for governments as well as puts obstacles on consumers to switch to novel tobacco products, stakeholders said at an event organised by EURACTIV.

This week on Beyond the Byline, EURACTIV looks at the recent events that unfolded in Russia, presenting a major domestic incident for President Vladimir Putin. The crisis ensued when Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, a Russian state-funded paramilitary...

The new Economic Affairs Minister and nationalistic Finns Party MP Vilhelm Junnila can continue in the government after surviving a no-confidence vote by a relatively narrow margin of 95 in favour and 86 against, which is a poor start for...

Businesses across the UK received a share of over £80 million from the UK government on Wednesday in an effort to ditch fossil fuels for cleaner alternatives. There are about 29 projects that will now be working to change their...

Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) leader Caroline van der Plas criticised excessive polarisation concerning the migration debate within political circles in a parliamentary discussion on Wednesday and called for more realistic measures to be implemented. During the debate, lawmakers discussed a proposed...

Hungary's parliament will not ratify Sweden's NATO membership before the summer recess as it has not included the vote in the agenda of next week's session, Hungarian online media reported on Wednesday (28 June).

Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib is facing a no-confidence vote on Thursday after granting visas to Iranian and Russian delegations in the framework of a mayor’s convention earlier this month, but parties say they won’t vote for it as it could...

On Tuesday (June 27), the Cartel Panel of the German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe was convened to rule on Amazon's complaint. The digital giant wanted to take action against the classification as “market-dominant.”

 A proposed crackdown on corruption, which would make the purchase of mandates in the national parliament, state parliaments and EU parliament a punishable offence, was discussed by the Austrian parliament’s justice committee on Wednesday. Starting 1 September, it will be...