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Two people were killed after a missile hit Polish territory in the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine on Tuesday (15 November), marking the first explosion on NATO members' soil since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

It will be hard for the EU to solve its 'demographic problem' with the absence of legal migration, EU Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica told EURACTIV in a video interview on the day the global population reached 8 billion.

Member states once again blocked the Commission's proposal to extend the marketing authorisation of the herbicide glyphosate for another year, but the EU executive is set to still approve an interim renewal before mid-December.

The Mediterranean is one of the regions most affected by climate change, with an intensification of heat waves, wildfires, floods, droughts and water shortages. In this special report, EURACTIV looks at the initiatives taken by the region to tackle the challenge.

With ever-increasing numbers of tourists visiting the region, Mediterranean countries are coming under growing pressure to tackle the related environmental impacts, including air and water pollution.

Join this EURACTIV Hybrid Conference to discuss how the EU can better address the food crisis in Eastern Africa. Questions to be discussed include: - What can be done to avert the worst of a deepening food crisis in East Africa? - Has the EU's response been robust enough so far? - What lessons must be learned from this crisis to make the humanitarian system fit for the future?

After months of stagnating debates on the ePrivacy Regulation, EU lawmakers and diplomats have moved on to discussing the sensitive issue of processing electronic communications data, metadata, and content.

When Germany took full control of Gazprom Germania, the European subsidiary of the Kremlin's gas arm, it symbolically ended the country's 52-year gas entanglement with Russia. However, few realised that it would make Berlin Europe's new major player and supplier in the energy world.

The importance of engineering skills has never been greater. Today, the lack of engineers and other specialists is damaging economic growth and sustainable transformation in Europe.

With Bulgaria and Croatia near to adopting the euro, eurozone enlargement is becoming more relevant. Romania should make the adoption of the euro a strategic objective that would support the country's stability, argue Mihaela Luţaş and Dan Luca.

After being delayed again and again, the Euro 7 vehicle pollution standards were released on Thursday (10 November) in what will likely be the final air quality regulation for petrol and diesel cars.

A joint railway project between Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan is gaining momentum as it could open up international trade routes, but some caution against collaborating with Taliban-controlled Afghanistan considering ongoing human rights abuses and the introduction of Sharia law.

Negotiators of the European Parliament and representatives of the member states reached an agreement on the 2023 EU budget on Monday night (14 November) with the Parliament demanding additional means to address the fallout of the war in Ukraine.

Rewatch this EURACTIV Hybrid Conference to find out how the AI Act can support a thriving economy for SMEs and what the implications of the AI Act are for this sector. Can a trustworthy and innovative AI ecosystem be designed? And can the costs for SMEs actually be lower thanks to the AI Act?

Europe’s upcoming raw materials act comes at a time when Europe must act fast if it wants to preserve its domestic aluminium value chain. To not sleepwalk into another crisis, we need to rethink what makes a critical raw material.

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations were considering a draft resolution on Tuesday (15 November) in which most members strongly condemn the war in Ukraine and stress it is exacerbating fragilities in the global economy, diplomats said.

The German government inaugurated its first floating terminal on Tuesday (15 November), built in record time and intended to receive liquefied natural gas as part of Berlin's plan to replace Russian gas, with the first regasification ship set to dock in mid-December.

Often described as the oil of the 21st century, raw materials like metals and rare earths are considered crucial to the digital and green transition. In order secure access to these materials, the European Commission announced the launch of a Critical Raw Material Act, due in the first quarter of 2023.

The authoritarianism of the establishment has met that of the far-right in Italy, Yanis Varoufakis told EURACTIV in an interview. The minister founded Mera25 in Italy last weekend, to run for the next European elections in 2024 and challenge what he sees as “two authoritarianisms”.

The Czech Republic is considering throwing its hat in the ring to host the UN's COP29 climate summit in 2024, which would put it in contention with a handful of other countries for the massive international conference.