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The Indian government has lambasted a push from the EU and other World Trade Organisation (WTO) members to keep global trade on foodstuffs open to cope with the fallout of the Ukraine war, backing countries' right to stockpile to feed their citizens.

Climate change will jeopardise development prospects across the world, imposing pressures on economic, social, and political systems that human civilisations have never experienced. Much has changed since the Glasgow climate negotiations at the end of last year. The latest science tells us that global greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025

In the framework of the EU-funded project Teachers4Europe, rewatch this EURACTIV Virtual Conference to learn more about how policy makers can support new and innovative citizenship education initiatives across Europe. Discussed questions  included: - How to promote democratic awareness through education across the EU? - How to provide teachers with adequate learning tools to promote democratic culture? - What is the role of new digital technologies in achieving these goals?

Three of the four Western Balkan EU candidates have signed a joint statement with Ukraine in support of its EU candidacy, in a signal that fast-tracking the war-torn eastern country would not mess up their own slow-moving EU integration but...

The French Presidency advanced further changes to the part of the AI Act related to innovation and regulatory sandboxes in a final compromise text ahead of its Telecom Working Party meeting on Friday (17 June), the Council body that advances the work at the technical level.

With its Solar Energy Strategy adopted on 18 May, the European Commission intends to massively scale up the deployment of solar energy across the EU and put an end to Europe's dependence on fossil fuels.

A markets sell-off has brought back memories of the eurozone debt crisis more than a decade ago, highlighting divisions that have plagued the currency bloc's efforts to forge a closer bond.

One of the lawmakers steering the revision of the EU’s renewable energy directive in the European Parliament has called on the European Union to "at least triple" or even quadruple the production of clean energy from solar thermal by the end of the decade.

Achieving a new balance in the way food and drinks are served in single use and reusable containers requires careful preparation, progressive introduction and feasible timelines to be safe, sustainable and sustained long-term.

A full-fledged victory of Ukraine will give the chance to many Russians who dream of a modern Russia, for a unique possibility to break down this vicious circle of neo-colonialist imperialism and change the course of the country for the better, writes Viola Von Cramon Taubadel.

EU lawmakers, particularly from France, are divided on including gas and nuclear power in the EU's green taxonomy ahead of a final vote in July, as MEPs recently adopted a resolution opposing a delegated act to that effect, but only by a small margin.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. More than two years after the pandemic struck and long since the last lockdown forced people to turn their work life upside down, a great number of...

The left-wing alliance NUPES, which finished neck-and-neck with President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble! in the first parliamentary election round, has reinforced the view that French Greens are too radical to govern. The reality, however, is much more nuanced.

The energy price and supply risks we are facing today are making the decarbonisation of the power sector by 2035 an even more significant challenge. But if we deviate the heading of our ship from the course for longer than necessary, we will lose the course we set for ourselves: cost-efficient power sector decarbonisation, writes Zsuzsanna Pató.

The European Commission will speed up the procedure to delay crop rotation and fallow land requirements within the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for another year after an informal go-ahead from member states.

Israel and Egypt plan to boost gas exports to Europe under an agreement signed during a Cairo visit Wednesday (15 June) by the European Commission president as the bloc seeks to wean itself off Russian gas.

Russia said on 16 June that the West had "shot itself in the head" by trying to limit energy imports from the oil and gas fields due to the Ukraine conflict, in contrast to China which has increased energy deliveries.

The European Central Bank promised fresh support for the bloc's indebted southern rim on Wednesday (15 June), tempering a market rout that threatened a repeat of the debt crisis that almost brought down the single currency a decade ago.

The US government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict to help Russians sidestep censors and access Western media, according to five people familiar with the situation.

German states will have to actively look for areas that can be designated for wind farm construction in order to meet government targets as per a new draft law presented on Wednesday (15 June), reported Clean Energy Wire.