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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the European Union on Wednesday (15 June) to let his country start on the road to membership of the bloc, warning that Russia's territorial ambitions stretched from Warsaw to Sofia.

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The European General Court has ruled to dismiss a €1 billion antitrust fine filed by the Commission against American chipmaker Qualcomm, marking another major defeat for the EU antitrust regulator. The European Commission initiated a formal investigation on Qualcomm in...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday (15 June) that Ukraine would have to hold talks with Russia at some point, in order to try and bring an end to the war between the two countries. “The Ukrainian President and...

Climate ministers from ten EU countries have called on their fellow countries and the European Parliament not to lower the ambition of new climate legislation and to ensure that the overall package aims at reducing net emissions by at least 55% by 2030.

Global peace has plunged to the lowest levels in 14 years as Russia’s war in Ukraine and the rising food and fuel costs loom large, according to the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) unveiled on Wednesday (15 June).

Renewable biofuels have been touted as a means to partially replace embargoed Russian oil, but have proven controversial. To discuss the role of biofuels in plugging Europe’s oil supply gap, EURACTIV spoke with MEP Henna Virkkunen.

Innovative and sustainable procedures for the treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are coming to life, promising to complement the existing traditional options such as dialysis and transplantation.

Although not included in the EU’s list of major non-communicable diseases, chronic kidney disease (CKD) will benefit from an ‘indirect’ impact of the work on other conditions that share common risk factors, according to the European Commission.

The digital revolution is, at the moment, an “ecological catastrophe” due to the impact of the materials it requires and the EU needs legislation to make it a sustainable process, according to an MEP.

CITA strongly believes that for electric vehicles to play out their full potential in terms of achieving sustainable and safe mobility while ensuring user acceptance over time, the Periodic Technical Inspection (PTI) remains essential and needs to be quickly adapted for EVs.

Russia for years hosted world leaders and business titans at its annual economic forum in St Petersburg, but the "Russian Davos" will see little of the global financial elite this year.

Germany’s political and business leaders have kicked off the "Alliance for Transformation", a key initiative of the new coalition government focused on climate protection, sustainability and digitalisation to change the country’s economy.

Last week saw fury and frustration erupt among lawmakers as the reform of the EU’s core climate policy, the emissions trading scheme (ETS), failed to win the approval of the European Parliament.

Climate change could play out to the advantage of the euro, while China's yuan and the Japanese yen are set to suffer the most without greater efforts to mitigate the effects of global warming, Barclays said in a report.

The current price difference between renewable energies and fossil fuels is stark and weighs heavily on electricity prices across Europe. A quick solution to this would be to keep the current marginal pricing system for fossil fuels and create a separate market for renewables where prices would be defined at the time of auction, writes Mike Parr.

Improving screening tools and strengthening the incentive system for orphan drugs are among the main suggestions for overhauling the European legislation on rare diseases, a topic included in the health priorities of the forthcoming Czech presidency of the EU.

European countries, scrambling to secure alternatives to Russian coal, imported 40% more coal from South Africa's main export hub in the first five months of this year than over the whole of 2021, figures showed on Wednesday (15 June).

The war has changed Ukrainians inside out, each one going through this traumatic war experience differently and will remember different scenes, like students holding their graduation ceremonies at the ruins of their schools, writes Roman Rukomeda.

The European Union's top aviation safety regulator said on Tuesday (14 June) that he is "very worried" about the safety of Western-made aircraft continuing to fly in Russia without access to spare parts and proper maintenance.