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The EU has no money in the budget and no clear way to help finance the extra transport costs Ukrainian grain exports will face with the end of the Black Sea deal, leaving an opportunity for Moscow to cash in.

Representatives from various African and Caribbean entities joined forces at a historic event this week in the capital of Barbados, Bridgetown, to demand reparations for slavery and its legacy in today's society.

US President Joe Biden met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House on Thursday (27 July), vowing to deepen economic ties and strengthen cooperation on challenges posed by China, but skirted differences over LGTBQ rights.

A leading French artist rights organisation has expressed solidarity with 160,000 US actors on strike and fears about Artificial Intelligence taking their jobs, in an open letter to the Ministry of Culture.

EU lawmakers have accused the European Commission of ignoring ‘grave violations’ of human rights in its ‘cash for migrant control’ agreement with Tunisia in a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen published on Thursday (27 July). 

Reforms undertaken as part of the European Green Deal, including the recent update of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), are helping to accelerate the EU's decarbonisation, write Gabriel Papeians and Stefan Feuchtinger.

In this extremely hot summer, wildfires are raging in many countries across our continent, especially in the south. We usually blame them on climate change and extreme weather.

The new German hydrogen strategy takes itself and the EU closer to the front of the pack, but to close the deal, European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic is needed, writes Jorgo Chatzimarkakis. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is the CEO of the industry...

The German government has adopted a regulation extending the scope of the country’s mandatory origin label for meat after agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said the European Commission did not deliver on its promise for an EU-level proposal.

The EU has given the green light to Berlin to provide €40 million in state support to construct the country’s first on-shore LNG terminal that will increase security of gas supply and is expected to operate into 2044.

Germany wants to ramp up export credits for climate-friendly technologies while cutting back support for polluting ones, but without phasing out public funding for fossil fuels entirely, prompting criticism by environmentalists.

The European Commission opened a formal investigation on Microsoft on Thursday (27 July) over concerns the company might have bundled its collaboration product Teams with its productivity software part of the Office package.

A recently proposed universal ban on ‘forever chemicals’ in the EU would have a negative impact on pharmaceutical innovation and access to medicines, the pharmaceutical industry has warned.

The recent boom in generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT has spurred a flurry of multilateral initiatives as regulators attempt to respond to the breakneck pace of development of AI systems, write Carisa Nietsche and Camille Ford.

Germany's federal states have agreed on proposals to improve the catalogue of eco-schemes, a new instrument under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to reward sustainable farming practices, whose take-up has so far been lower than hoped.

NGOs are suing the European Commission for having approved France's national plan for implementing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) despite allegedly breaching EU law - a move that French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau calls a "destructive battle".

A European Parliament draft report about online services’ addictive design paints a damning picture of the mental health consequences of excessive screen time and calls for new EU rules to address the problem. Addictive design, which refers to capturing users’...

The European Commission and international health agencies are closely monitoring a growing incidence of avian influenza in mammals. Despite the low risk, the Commission says it is prepared to act in case human-to-human transmission starts.

People on the tourist island fear the impact of the loss of summer trade after fires that ravaged businesses and homes. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

The relentless march of climate change has taken a devastating toll on Europe's Alpine regions. From altered river flows to moving borders and shifting local economies, EURACTIV examines the multifaceted consequences of Europe's melting glaciers.