European Union

Packaging is part of our daily life and offers essential benefits: protecting food and beverages, allowing their safe use and transport, and preventing food waste. The beverage carton industry believes packaging can, and should, contribute to mitigating the biggest global challenge: climate change, while not compromising on food safety.

This week the Beyond the Byline podcast is focusing on the spike of energy prices, the Commission’s monitoring of the evolution of the electricity prices, and its attempt to come up with long-term fixes like investments in energy savings and renewables as the main answer at European level.

Rich nations need to commit much more than $100 billion to help poor countries fight climate change due to their high historical share of emissions, India’s chief economic adviser said on Thursday (30 September), ahead of a UN Climate Change...

Environmental regulations aimed at cutting the carbon footprint of aviation will increase the cost of flying by around 8% by 2050, according to the European Commission.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Austrian Communist Party caught in a scandal for praising the Lukashenko regime, Spanish judges calling for Puigdemont to be extradited "immediately" to Spain, and so much more.

The Rector of Sofia University, Prof. Anastas Gerdjikov, has been nominated as a presidential candidate for the independent Initiative Committee. The party of ex-PM Boyko Borissov, GERB, will support him. “I agreed to be nominated as a candidate for President...

A group of European airlines agreed on Thursday (30 September) to refund passengers whose flights were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, and committed to provide better information on passengers' rights in future.

The high flammability of hydrogen – a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas – has prompted EU lawmakers to ensure that potential safety issues do not stymie the market uptake of this rather novel energy carrier.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi pledged on Thursday (30 September) that world leaders would listen to the demands of young climate activists ahead of the United Nations COP26 summit in November, after a meeting in Milan with Greta Thunberg.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told a press conference on Thursday that he disagrees with the Bulgarian veto of North Macedonia’s EU accession and that admitting the Balkans to the EU should be sped up. “Of course, the Western Balkans...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and BiH Prime Minister Zoran Tegeltija cut the ribbon officially marking the Svilaj bridge open to traffic. The Svilaj Bridge across the River Sava, which connects Svilaj in...

Albania’s very first maritime conference kicked off in Tirana on Thursday (29 September), coinciding with World Maritime Day.  The event was attended by various government and industry stakeholders and the ambassador of the European Union to Albania, Luigi Soreca. Soreca...

The Constitutional Court has stayed a government decree under which public administration employees would have to either be vaccinated or have recovered from the virus to come to work from 1 October. Senior government officials have already accused judges of...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a wake-up call for all of us. Human, animal, and plant health are all intrinsically interconnected. As the pandemic showed, we failed to integrate these three dimensions, writes Hilde Vautmans.

The hospital reform, which aims to ensure greater expertise and specialisation of hospitals by redefining the roles and status of hospitals according to the care they provide to patients, was approved by the government. It is a “key reform and it...

European Commissioner Thierry Breton visited Japan and South Korea this week to find common grounds for future cooperation on digital and tech matters. The agenda was dominated by the recently announced European Chips Act and the prospect of digital partnership agreements.

European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson met with Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński in Warsaw to discuss the situation on the Eastern border of Poland and the EU with Belarus. The Commission is particularly concerned over the recent five deaths of...

More than two thousand British gas stations were still dry on Thursday due a shortage of drivers which was starting to disrupt deliveries to pharmacies, while farmers warned a lack of butchers could lead to a massive cull of pigs.