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The Serb minority in northern Kosovo will resign from roles in public institutions in protest over a row on vehicle number plates, a political leader said Saturday (5 November).

Russia wants the West to ease restrictions on state agriculture lender Rosselkhozbank to facilitate Russian grain exports, according to four sources familiar with the request, made during talks to extend a deal on food shipments from Ukraine.

The EU must not close itself off as it moves towards greater technological autonomy, Czech Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalisation, Ivan Bartoš, urged at a Czech Presidency conference on digital innovation on Friday (4 November). If Europe is to become a technological...

G7 countries will be ready with all the operational details of a price cap on Russian seaborne crude oil by 5 December, when the measure is scheduled to kick in, a senior US official confirmed on Friday (4 November).

Public spending must move away from distortive and environmentally harmful farming subsidies, according to the secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Mathias Cormann.

French far-right MP Grégoire de Fournas was sanctioned on Friday (4 November) with an exclusion from the National Assembly, following outrage in the Chamber over a racist comment made to another MP.

The lawmakers spearheading the work on the AI Act launched the idea of an AI Office to streamline enforcement and solve competency disputes on cross-border cases.

Turkey has become an indispensable intermediary in the Ukraine–Russia–West ternary, and wherever one currently looks, Ankara is often already there. Since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Turkey has maintained close ties with Ukraine and Russia in a skillful...

As the debate on the reform of the EU ETS market enters its final stage with the so-called ‘trilogue’ negotiations between the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission, it is critical to agree on the role of the carbon price signal in the context of the EU’s increased decarbonisation objective and the ongoing energy crisis.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Chinese leaders in Beijing on Friday (4 November) that Berlin expected equal treatment on trade as he tried to drum up greater economic cooperation despite growing distrust of the Asian superpower in the West. Scholz...

There are very few certainties in life. One is death, one is taxes, and one is that if you ever attend an event in Brussels on anything to do with the agrifood sector, the Commission official on the panel will,...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “The recommendation should only focus on bringing forward the measures set out in the CER directive, not expanding them.”...

A Cypriot whistleblower and former aide to President Nikos Anastasiades has accused the EU country authorities of engaging in surveillance activities to the benefit of powerful Russians, something the president vehemently denies.

To move away from fossil fuels would benefit human health 'enormously', World Health Organisation (WHO) experts argued ahead of COP27, calling for 'severe action' from the governments. 

No progress has been made on the decision to extend the waiver of part of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement on Trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics, despite the looming deadline.

With the European Commission expected to put forward its ideas for the reform of the much-criticised fiscal rules for EU member states on Wednesday (9 November), EURACTIV takes a look at the current rules and explains why they are criticised.

Health innovation is creating exciting new possibilities for improving patients’ lives and making care more personalised and sustainable. How can we ensure innovation is scaled up so patients and health systems across the European Union can benefit?

Russia's escalation regarding threats of using nuclear weapons is a significant cause for concern and should be condemned far and wide before the rhetoric becomes normalised, a group of 42 parliamentarians from 23 countries write.  

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that pretty much every UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, or COP, held since 1994 has been little more than a festival of pledges, writes Jonathan Gornall.

The Czech Presidency of the EU Council completed its second full revision of the Data Act by giving more discretion to the customer on the timing to move from one cloud service to the other. The Data Act is a...