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The episode may have escaped the attention of Brussels circles, but a Chinese-brokered deal to restore ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, respectively, the two leading Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim powers in the Middle East, is a diplomatic stunt that provides food for thought.

The EU’s Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF), which allows member states to subsidise sustainable technologies, is welcomed by advocates for green industrial policy - but some NGOs fear it will be counterproductive for the environment and SMEs.

Evaluation by the European Commission of Ukraine's progress in fulfilling the recommendation for EU accession will be presented in May and by then, Kyiv will complete the implementation of most of them, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Olha Stefanishyna, told European Pravda.

Georgia's President Salome Zurabishvili is set to meet EU chief Charles Michel in Brussels Monday (13 March) after Tbilisi dropped its controversial 'foreign agent' law in the face of major pro-European protests.

The longer the war drags on, the clearer it becomes to the world: Russia can no longer win, writes Alexander Temerko. Alexander Temerko is a Ukrainian-British businessman, and former junior minister of defence of the Russian Federation in the Yeltsin...

Leaders of the US, Australia and Britain are set to unveil plans to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines on Monday (13 March), in a major push against China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific.

It is crucial for Ukraine’s allies to counter Russian efforts to claim ownership of the peace narrative by redefining the concept of peace, writes Patrik Szicherle. Patrik Szicherle is a research fellow at GLOBSEC. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and...

The European Commission has rejected calls from the soft drinks industry to reserve recovered PET bottles in priority for recycling into new food-grade plastics, saying this risked causing distortions on the market for secondary materials.

Chinese President Xi Jinping could wade deeper than before into Ukraine diplomacy as soon as next week, staging both his first trip to Russia and his first talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Moscow's invasion.

For the European Union to win the race to net zero, we have to solve the energy trilemma faced by all hard-to-abate industries: we must establish secure supplies of energy that are both commercially competitive and carbon neutral. 

As the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive enters the home stretch, it faces a first crucial test in the European Parliament this week, where opposition is lying in wait.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Russia's embassy to Slovakia being very active on Facebook, Austria joining Germany in opposing the de facto combustion engine ban for 2035, and so much more.

The leader of leftist DiEM25 and controversial former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was hospitalised over the weekend after he was physically attacked by a group of young people. People with covered faces and COVID masks approached the table where Varoufakis...

The general secretary of the international union ITUC has been dismissed from his post, the confederation said, over his links to a European Parliament graft scandal implicating Qatar.

This week, EURACTIV discusses a leaked draft of EU member states’ compromise text on the industrial emissions directive, and we hear from EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski for his take on the controversies surrounding the directive. We also speak with...

The EU and Greece have been trying to put in place modern safety systems and improve Greek railways’ cross-border interoperability to connect with the rest of Europe for more than twenty years. But a series of delays, grey contracts and...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will spend an extra 5 billion pounds (€5,64 billion) to replenish ammunition stocks and fund the next phase of a submarine pact with the United States and Australia in an update to Britain's foreign policy framework.

After thwarting a proposed EU ban on new fossil fuel cars, Germany's liberal FDP party is now launching an attack on the EU's buildings directive, which envisages a Europe-wide renovation obligation to reduce the sector's emissions.

South Korea should build nuclear weapons to bolster its defences against North Korea, even at the risk of international repercussions, the mayor of its capital city said, arguing that the country cannot be bound by the goal of denuclearisation.

Ahead of a key EU-backed meeting between Kosovo and Serbia on 18 March in Ohrid, North Macedonia, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti spoke of Serbian President Aleksander Vucic’s reluctance to sign an agreement but expressed hope for the upcoming talks....