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Serbians paraded life-size figures of leading government figures in prison jumpsuits on Saturday (17 June) during a seventh week of protests since two mass shootings triggered nationwide protests.

Vladimir Putin on 17 June gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv.

Putin said on 16 June that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

Temperatures in Europe are heating up, and so is a contention that has now spread from Spain to Germany. At the heart of the squabble is a fruit you might be snacking on as you enjoy the sun: strawberries.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday (16 June) announced €500 million in public investment into the French aviation industry to help the EU meet its aviation decarbonisation targets for 2030 and 2050.

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire warned that uniformly and automatically applied numerical targets embedded in the current fiscal rules had led to recessions in the past and should not be included in the EU's reform of the rules.

A delegation of African leaders began a peace mission in Kyiv on Friday (16 June), undeterred by what Ukraine said was a volley of Russian missiles intended to greet them in the capital.

This week’s United Nations climate talks in Bonn confirmed a familiar pattern. Glacial progress on climate finance meant that little headway was made on adaptation and loss and damage.  The perception will persist among the leaders of the Global South...

As an outcome of the 4th Railway Package, the authorisation process for rail vehicles is harmonized across Europe, accessible, transparent, and predictable. An institutional locomotive that takes us every day closer to a railway system without frontiers. Josef Doppelbauer is...

Top executives of the American chipmaker Intel and the Polish government announced a €4.2 billion investment in the Lower Silesian region on Friday (16 June) following last year’s launch of a massive investment plan spanning Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy and...

There is growing concern in Brussels that national governments are too slow in excluding Chinese components, with the German government being particularly hesitant on the issue.

How to make the target to slash in half the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030 a reality?

There are plenty of promising innovations which could help dramatically lower the use of pesticides, but these remain stuck in the pipeline, hampered by maladapted regulation and low confidence levels, scientists from leading research centre Rothamsted told EURACTIV.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “Is this the right time to regulate AI? My answer is resolutely yes.” -Dragoș Tudorache, European Parliament’s co-rapporteur on...

Having significantly reduced its dependence on Russian energy, the EU must now instigate a full embargo on Russian gas, rendering transit via Ukraine unnecessary, writes Sergiy Makogon.

Is Europe's industry in danger? Looking at the current flood of regulatory initiatives from the EU, the answer is yes, unfortunately. Businesses need a break from too detailed political intervention. Then they can focus on what they do best: innovate.

A well-functioning internal market must be at the centre of the EU’s electricity market reform. This means some elements of the proposed reform need to go because they put energy projects across Europe seriously at risk, writes Morten Helveg Petersen.

The European Commission's proposal of common rules promoting the repair of goods marks an important step towards implementing a circular economy in Europe. However, ambitions must be raised in order for the right to repair to become a reality, writes Thierry Libaert.

Croatian tourism officials are anticipating a record year for the sector after the country joined Europe's free-movement Schengen zone in January, which has boosted the number of visitors to its picturesque Adriatic coast.

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton urged on Thursday (15 June) member states to use the prerogatives of the 5G Toolbox to restrict or exclude high-risk vendors and announced Commission measures to free its internal networks from Huawei and ZTE. The second...