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On Tuesday (13 September), the EU executive is expected to present its proposal for a Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI) to facilitate monitoring of supply chains of critical sectors and, in emergencies, intervene in the markets.

Albania has frozen all diplomatic ties with Iran and asked diplomats to leave the country by Thursday (8 September) over a series of cyber-attacks, including one this summer that brought all government services to a standstill.

Industrial workers call on the EU to protect industry and industrial jobs from the energy crisis. They demand measures to protect jobs, prevent company closures and urgent intervention in the energy market (price caps, profit caps and decoupling gas from electricity prices). Nonetheless, the Green Deal objectives must be preserved.

EURACTIV visited QuTech, a Dutch research institute among the world's most promising for quantum computing and quantum internet, to learn about the state of the technology and what is needed to move forward in the race towards the “quantum advantage”. 

Updating the 2003 Council recommendation on cancer screening is a high priority for the current Czech EU Presidency, which is hoping to see results on more preventative actions to reduce the occurrence of Europe’s second-worst killer.

Brussels outlined on Wednesday (7 September) five proposals to tackle the high energy prices gripping Europe, including a mandatory target for reducing electricity use, capping the revenues of energy firms, and recycling the money raised to help vulnerable households.

Animals in transport require more space, lower temperatures and shorter journeys to ensure adequate protection, according to a new set of opinions put forward by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have agreed to restrict the entry of Russian citizens travelling from Russia and Belarus, their foreign ministers said on Wednesday (7 September).

Following a partnership agreement signed on Tuesday (6 September), the French regional districts - or departments - will be brought closer to the European institutions, notably to facilitate the financing of projects at a more local level.

The EU must get serious in tackling human rights abuses of people with disabilities, including minimum standards of personal assistance, writes Florian Saden.

Across Europe, waste-based biodiesel is an essential tool to reduce on-road emissions and drive transport decarbonisation. Already this renewable fuel achieves the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) savings on record under the revised Renewable Energy Directive (REDII).

The European Union needs to reduce power costs in the region to prevent the permanent closure of metal producing plants in the region, which would increase reliance on imports with higher carbon footprints, industry association Eurometaux said.

As electricity prices surge on the back of dwindling gas supplies from Russia, calls are growing to bring relief to European households and businesses – some of which are being pushed to bankruptcy.

The European Union and China are questioning each other's commitment to fighting climate change, following the failure of climate talks by the Group of 20 (G20) last week.

New compromise amendments, seen by EURACTIV, show MEPs veering towards a broad-scoped legal presumption of employment. Negotiations remain “very sensitive” and “a compromise is far from being found," according to sources.

In the past six months, as Russia has been trying to occupy Ukraine, at least eight top Russian businessmen, heads of several major companies, have died under unexplained circumstances. Orhan Dragaš takes a closer look.

After securing five floating LNG terminals, Germany is doubling down on emergency energy infrastructure for the coming winter: floating power plants running on oil are expected to help balance the country’s electricity grid after Germany's nuclear exit at the end of the year.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Austrian education minister being urged to ‘wake up’ amid a teacher shortage, the Czech EU Presidency seeing two solutions to the energy crisis, and so much more.

Finance Minister Delina Ibrahimaj revealed that the anti-crisis package totalling some €50 million to protect the population from rising prices would be announced in a few days, but not everyone was happy. In the Economy Committee, where the 2022 budget...

The decision to cancel EuroPride in Belgrade is the right one to make as the event is something “that is entirely contrary to our people’s value system,” Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije said on Tuesday. “We completely understand the essentially...