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African and Asian countries are facing food shortages due to the Russian blockade of the Black Sea, but often they blame the EU instead, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský warned. Strategic communication towards African and Asian countries is a crucial...

A 5% VAT reduction on electricity prices, a mitigating measure included in a new anti-crisis package to be approved by the government on Saturday (June 25), was announced by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday. In a speech before...

The Belgian liberal coalition party Open Vld distanced itself from a parliamentary committee’s initiative of sending a delegation to Central Africa amid ongoing talks of reparations to former colonies. Speaking on the ongoing work of the parliamentary committee dealing with...

Besides diversification, saving energy, or pushing for renewables, some countries have opted to expand existing gas drilling sites or exploit unused reserves as the EU prepares to end its dependency on Russian gas. While the European Commission has shared three...

Desperate rescuers battled against the clock Thursday (23 June) under pouring rain to pull survivors from the rubble after a powerful quake struck a mountainous border region of Afghanistan, killing at least 1,000 people.

Lithuania will be prepared if Russia disconnects it from the regional power grid in retaliation for blocking rail shipments of some Russian goods to Moscow's Kaliningrad exclave, but no military confrontation is expected, its president told Reuters.

Sustainability concerns should receive increased attention in trade deals and, if necessary, also be enforced through sanctions, according to a new approach presented by the EU Commission on Wednesday (22 June).

The upcoming Czech Presidency shared a discussion paper with the other EU governments to gather their views on AI definition, high-risk systems, governance and national security.

A French centre on air pollution recently published its latest estimates on France's greenhouse gas emissions, and the Ministry of Energy Transition is pleased with it: -9.6% between 2017 and 2021.

While German Chancellor Scholz has demonstrated support for EU accession processes, he stressed on Wednesday (22 June) that enlargement must be tied to institutional reform of the EU.

After three hearings with no less than three Commissioners, it is clear that MEPs in the recently set European Parliament's special committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (COVI) will have to be persistent if they wish to access the necessary information.

The European Parliament could sue EU leaders at the European Court of Justice for breaking treaties’ obligations if they refuse to officially react to EU lawmakers' official call for the Convention to open EU treaties, a constitutional expert told EURACTIV.

There should be a new European foundation in charge of developing so-called "digital commons" across the bloc, said an EU task force asked to reflect on how to harness this tool for greater digital sovereignty.

Russian forces pounded Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv and its countryside with rockets on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people, in what Kyiv called a bid to force it to pull resources from the main battlefield to protect civilians.

Many believe introducing qualified majority would require an arduous treaty change, but this is not true. If qualified majority is not introduced in the EU enlargement decision-making, the whole process will die, write Srdjan Cvijic and Zoran Nechev.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revived Europe's enlargement, a process that has been deemed dead. Now EU member states need to keep it alive.

The European Parliament has adopted a common position on the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) reform and the bloc’s forthcoming carbon border tax (CBAM) following a compromise between the biggest parties.

Although the metaverse promises great commercial opportunities, it raises a number of questions that regulators and legislators are having a hard time answering as this future evolution of the Internet is still at a very early stage.

The European Commission has proposed to slash in half the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030, confirming the level of ambition enshrined in the European Green Deal despite food insecurity threats in light of the Ukraine war.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is "very closely" monitoring possible shortages of medicines or medical equipment as a result of the war in Ukraine, though no critical shortages have so far been reported.