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The Swedish Football Association and LIFE TACKLE partner, interviewed a number of Swedish football fans to bring to light their own understanding of sustainability in sport, and what this means to them.

Entry into office of two new Members of the General Court of the European Union

The EU needs to increase its renewable energy capacity, become more self-sufficient in energy production and move away from foreign-controlled fossil fuels, according to Ossian Smyth, Irish minister of state.

The EU’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic is Parliament’s priority for the EU's budget for next year. Find out more in our interview with MEP Karlo Ressler.

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The EU’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic is Parliament’s priority for the EU's budget for next year. Find out more in our interview with MEP Karlo Ressler.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

The European Union is moving a step closer to integrating nuclear power and natural gas in the bloc’s sustainable finance taxonomy after a summit last week where EU leaders discussed the bloc's response to rising energy prices.

Bulgaria's tally of coronavirus infections has risen by 6,813 in the past 24 hours, a record daily increase as the European Union's least vaccinated country grapples with a fourth wave of the pandemic, official data showed on Wednesday (27 October).

Global leaders must not allow the double counting of emissions removals from forestry during negotiations at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, says Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele.

President Joe Biden escapes bruising political turmoil at home for the more convivial world of diplomacy at twin summits in Europe this week -- but the experience could be just as frustrating.

The impact of surging gas and electricity prices globally threatens the EU's energy market, but the bloc will not react hastily, officials said on Tuesday (26 October).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen discussing an alliance in Budapest, France's baguette expected to increase in price as energy prices soar in the country, and so much more.

Cosco employees have gone on a 24-hour strike after an accident at a container pier in Piraeus port cost the life of a 45-year-old worker. The Chinese company now controls 67% of one of Europe’s largest ports, but several questions...

Rising food prices in Kosovo will be countered by a package of government measures, according to Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Tuesday (26 October). Kurti said that local prices are up due to global increases and issues with fuel, energy,...

The US is planning to add Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Romania to its visa-waiver programme, letting people stay for up to 90 days without a permit. "We have four candidates in the pipeline: Israel, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania," homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday, Reuters reports. "Each time you add one of these countries, travel just booms," a US tourism-association chief said. All other 24 EU states already have waivers.

"Granting certification [to Russia's new Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline] is not threatening security of gas supply to the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union," Germany's economy ministry said Tuesday, in a recommendation to energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur. The regulator has until January to decide, but may act earlier, amid accusations Russia was manipulating supply to enable it to run the pipe as a monopoly despite EU anti-monopoly laws.

The EU should force US firm Facebook to change its ways even if litigation took "years without end", European anti-trust chief Margrethe Vestager told DW Tuesday. Facebook posed a risk to "young people's mental health" as well as "democracy" and needed external regulators, she said. Legal action should also try to help "smaller businesses ... get full access to the market" which Facebook has dominated, Vestager added.

Report says countries must strengthen climate ambitions after wasting chance to build back better after COVID. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

From the United States to the Arab league, the world reacted with alarm after an apparent coup in Sudan where armed forces on Monday (25 October) detained the prime minister.

The UK launched a major search-and-rescue operation Tuesday for three migrants missing in the English Channel after finding two others whose boat went off-course, The Times reports. Over 20,000 people crossed the Channel so far this year, including 145 on Tuesday. The UK is currently drafting new laws that will give its coast guard legal immunity if people drown after their boats are pushed back toward France by British vessels.

Anti-aircraft guns made in Serbia’s arms factory Zastava Oruzje in Kragujevac, which Azerbaijan seized during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenian forces, have been added to Azerbaijan’s national armaments and displayed at a recently held joint military drill with...