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On 20 May, the European Commission published two delegated acts clarifying EU rules applicable to renewable hydrogen. But the watered-down rules on renewable energy production following industry demands are endangering the achievement of the EU's climate targets, writes Marta Lovisolo.

The Institute of Digital Sciences Austria will start operating in 2023 despite criticisms levelled by academia for its financing structure, the Council of Ministers decided on Wednesday. The university aims to ensure Austria’s digital competitiveness and focus on innovative teaching,...

Europeans owe Moldova a positive and clear signal on its EU membership application, French President Emmanuel Macron said in Chisinau on Wednesday. Macron visited his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu on an official visit to Chisinau on Wednesday (15 June). During...

Finland should not tie itself to Sweden while both countries wait for their NATO application process to proceed, the chair of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Jussi Halla-aho, said on Tuesday. The comment by Halla-aho, a former chair of the...

The current heatwave gripping Spain is set to continue until at least the end of the week, with temperatures already reaching 43.2 degrees celsius, the country’s meteorological agency AEMET said on Wednesday.

Israel wanted to return to organising school trips to Poland but was met with resistance by the country’s authorities, who say travellers, accompanied by armed security guards from Shin Bet, the country’s internal security service, give the impression of Poland...

Serbia would be interested in building an interconnector with neighbouring Hungary because its northern neighbour gets its oil from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline, which is not under Western sanctions, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Wednesday. Read also: EU sanctions...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday (15 June) assured Vladimir Putin of China's support on Russian "sovereignty and security" -- leading Washington to warn Beijing it risked ending up "on the wrong side of history".

The war in Ukraine has pushed the number of refugees across the world to more than 100 million, according to a new report published on Thursday (16 June). 

The Czech government presented its priorities for its upcoming EU Presidency on Wednesday (15 June), foregrounding the issues of Ukraine's EU candidate status, alongside energy security. EURACTIV Czechia reports.

Germany will host the first European supercomputer with exascale capabilities while four new mid-range supercomputers will be hosted in Greece, Hungary, Ireland and Poland.

National-level reform will be essential to securing long-term sustainable change in research and innovation, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has concluded in a review of Horizon 2020 efforts to boost underperforming countries.

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is urging companies and governments not to miss the opportunities that metaverse is bringing, while the market is expected to generate up to 5 billion dollars for the economy by the end of the decade.

The European Parliament’s health committee (ENVI) has voted in favour of an objection calling on the Commission to withdraw its draft implementing act, continuing the saga of the list of antimicrobials reserved for human use. The outcome of the vote...

Despite the UN aiming to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030, a report published on Wednesday (15 June) has found that around a quarter of EU/EEA countries don’t have action plans or strategies for the prevention and control of the disease. 

Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom will further reduce gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as of 16 June, citing technical issues, while Berlin suspects the cuts to be politically motivated.

While fighting Vladimir Putin’s disinformation war about the impact of sanctions on the global food supply, we should not fall into the other conceptual trap that food insecurity will disappear once we leave the war behind.

The EU opened legal proceedings against the UK on Wednesday (15 June) in the wake of London’s decision to table a new law that would unilaterally override parts of the Northern Ireland protocol.

FEDIOL just released a study on Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) profiles of vegetable oil and protein meal products. Twenty-eight production sites from ten different FEDIOL companies participated in the exercise commissioned to the Belgian research institute VITO.

The European Parliament’s three biggest political groups, backed by the Greens, have reached a compromise deal on the reform of the EU’s emissions trading scheme ahead of a decisive vote in plenary next week.