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This week, EURACTIV’s Natasha Foote speaks to EU agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski in an exclusive interview detailing his vision for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy and EURACTIV’s agrifood team takes a look at what is involved in the...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden met on 14 November for long-awaited talks that come as bilateral relations are at their lowest in decades, marred by disagreements over a host of issues from Taiwan to trade.

There are limits to the capacity of humans to adapt to the most severe impacts of global warming, scientists have warned in a recent study, saying the more we approach 1.5°C or 2.0°C of warming above pre-industrial temperatures, the harder it will be to adapt.

After the general ban on asbestos, which finally had to be implemented in all EU member states in 2005, the asbestos issue became quiet – too quiet. For a long time, almost all actors overlooked the fact that asbestos is...

European populations are growing older, increasing the burden on already struggling health systems, but one way of reducing the burden is through adult immunisation programmes to combat vaccine-preventable diseases.

The position of the EU Council on the flagship legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence was shared on Friday (8 November) with some final last-minute adjustments made by the Czech Presidency.

The liberation of Kherson from Russian invaders has breathed new hope into the war as winter approaches and could lead soon to the liberation of other key regions, including Crimea and Donbas, writes Roman Rukomeda.

The European Union’s climate chief, Frans Timmermans, arrives in Sharm El-Sheikh for the COP27 summit with some good news: The EU’s 2030 climate goal “can now be increased to 57%,” from 55% previously, he confirmed.

One week into this year's UN climate summit in Egypt, frustrations were starting to flare as negotiators worried about resolving myriad details in time for a deal by the summit's scheduled close on Friday (18 November).

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Kosovo visa liberalisation decision being pushed to the end of 2023, Ireland and Iceland becoming linked through a new subsea telecoms cable, and so much more.

The European biofuels industry has hit back at allegations that it is driving deforestation in the Amazon, arguing that soy imported into the bloc for biofuels must undergo checks to ensure it is not contributing to habitat destruction.

Migration has become the first hot-button issue for Rome’s new right-wing government, pitting Western Europe’s powerhouses France and Germany against Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose hardline stance on NGO rescue ships is supported by other East Mediterranean reception...

After Albanians demonstrated in London on Saturday against xenophobia from the British government and media, Albanian politicians in Tirana rallied in force to pay their respects at a joint British-German Remembrance Sunday service in the capital. At the end of...

A decision on Kosovo visa liberalisation for the EU has been moved from 1 November 2023 to the end of that year amid undecided member states. The Czech Presidency of the EU has drawn up a draft decision for visa...

Violent treatment of migrants at Croatia’s border has decreased, but police still resort to illegal pushbacks, and this is only likely to get worse once the country joins the Schengen area next year, said an official from a leading human...

The annual inflation rate was at 15.32% in October, a slight drop from 15.88% in September, but consumer prices continue to rise and are expected to continue doing so until the end of the year. In October, prices were 1.3%...

The European Commission published its proposed EU battery regulation in December 2020. After almost two years of discussion, the EU institutions are now in the final stages of negotiating the details. It could be adopted in December 2022, with entry...

The Velvet revolution – which overthrew the communist regime – is viewed favourably by less than half of Slovaks, a new survey conducted by the Institute of Public Affairs found. The Czechoslovak Velvet revolution in November 1989 overthrew the communist...

New EU rules on treating urban wastewater, proposed by the European Commission last month are too ambitions for Polish municipalities, which point to the country’s ongoing issues with wastewater treatment. The new directive was proposed by the Commission last month...

The government formally requested a third disbursement of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, worth €6 billion, making Spain the first member state to do so. This request places Spain “as the most advanced country in the deployment of the funds,”...