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The European Commission's proposed climate legislation "is a surrender", Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg said in the European Parliament on Wednesday (4 March) and urged MEPs to do more.

The European Commission wants to look at all greenhouse gases responsible for global warming and not just carbon dioxide, EU Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans said in response to criticism by teen activist Greta Thunberg.

The European Commission officially unveiled its Climate Law on Wednesday (4 March), aimed at making the EU carbon neutral by 2050. But Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg criticised the plan as "surrender".

A video featuring a pizzaiolo coughing and spitting on a "pizza corona" was broadcast on French satirical show Groland, sparking outrage across the Italian peninsula and forcing the TV channel Canal + to publicly apologise. EURACTIV's partner Ouest-France reports.

The European Commission said on Wednesday (4 March) that train travel should be given special attention in 2021 as part of the EU executive's Green Deal environmental agenda, suggesting that next year should be the 'European Year of Rail'.

Kazakh police detained dozens of people in the country's largest city Almaty on Sunday (1 March), after the death of an imprisoned civil activist triggered anti-government rallies and diplomatic concerns.

Air pollution is the world's leading cause of mortality as it reduces a person's lifespan by three years on average, according to a study published on Tuesday (3 March). EURACTIV's partner Le Journal de l'Environment reports.

LUKOIL Vice-President for Strategic Development Leonid Fedun presented the 2035 Energy Outlook with a focus on oil markets and climate issues and initiate a discussion on the future of energy markets and possible ways of tackling global challenges. The Outlook...

A new support programme for farmers, during the election campaign to the European Parliament promised by Jaroslaw Kaczyński, president of PiS, will enter into force on March 15. The programme offers monetary incentives for improving animals welfare conditions. For example,...

Generational renewal, young farmers and digitalisation were the key topics of the fifth National agricultural conference, Slavonika, held in Osijek on Tuesday (3. March). ”What I want to tell young people is that agriculture is vulnerable, that the situation is...

In an internal mail seen by EURACTIV, the European Defence Agency (EDA) confirmed that one of its staff members has tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and it therefore cancelled all meetings to be held at its premises until 13 March as a precautionary measure.

A proposed legislation act to curb spreading of the African swine fever and set minimal rules for raising pigs in households has caused a ruckus among the farming community in Romania. The legislation aims to forbid reproduction of swines raised...

The European Parliament (EP) will fight to keep the current budget level for the post 2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and will reject the cuts that concern Spain and other so-called “friends of cohesion” EU member states, stressed Norbert Lins,...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about how some states are responding to the crisis at the border between Turkey and Greece, how Spain passed a new law to curb sexual assault and gender violence, and so much more.

President Aleksandar Vucic said in Washington on Monday night (2 March) that he had had a usual meeting with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci. He said Belgrade was expecting to see the removal of tariffs on the goods coming from Serbia...

A common security policy is everything but just not common. We are still pursuing a common security policy from our capitals,” Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman said during the Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the...

Romania’s telecom watchdog ANCOM announced plans to prepare documentation for the allocation of 5G frequency bands by the end of the third quarter of 2020 with the auction sale, therefore, being scheduled for the last quarter of 2020, according to...

An EU instrument designed to monitor serious cases of disinformation has been triggered following a series of online campaigns surrounding the deadly coronavirus outbreak, the European Commission has confirmed, in what could be the first time the EU's Rapid Alert System is being used.

The latest annual member states’ reports for the shipments of waste regulation show a substantial increase in waste shipments to Bulgaria. The report on waste in Bulgaria comes after Bulgarian MEP Ivo Hristov (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists...

Rock musician turned politician, Paweł Kukiz, has established his own party, which he has named K-15.  In 2015, he mounted an upstart bid to become president and gained 20% in the first round of the elections. This popularity translated later...