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Spain will resume Operation Crossing the Strait for three months on Wednesday, following a two-year closure due to the pandemic and a diplomatic crisis with Morocco. Read also: Tarajal border between Spain’s Ceuta and Morocco reopens The operation, which represents the...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is on a two-day visit to Israel and Palestine with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, where the two leaders discussed gas, wheat, and the war in Ukraine. The need to find an alternative...

Lithuania will purchase 18 new-generation 155mm Caesar MarktII self-propelled wheeled howitzers worth up to €150 million from France, Lithuania’s national defence ministry has announced. Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas and French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu signed a declaration of...

LUMI, the most powerful supercomputer in Europe and the third most powerful in the world, was inaugurated in Kajaani, some 500 kilometres north of Helsinki. Situated in an old paper mill, now a data centre hosted by IT Centre for...

The Austrian government has tabled on Tuesday a set of measures to combat soaring prices, including an income tax bracket adjustment and a higher-than-expected ‘climate bonus’ of €500 per person. The package will fund short-term and structural measures worth €28...

A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday (14 June), in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.

Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is trying to persuade seven deputies outside the ruling coalition to support him to save his government after the populist party ‘There Are Such People’ announced its withdrawal. Last week, the populist party ‘There Are Such...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday announced plans for a “different and better vision” of an independent Scotland after unveiling a paper on Scottish independence that would set the scene for the debate on the second referendum. The SNP...

Being open to Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union is necessary, French EU Minister Clément Beaune said after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Kyiv. “We must give a positive signal as soon as possible” even if...

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said he could not speculate on how high the loan from the KfW state investment bank to keep Gazprom Germania from insolvency would end up being, but sources place the figure in the region of €10 billion.

The new Code of Practice on Disinformation, seen by EURACTIV before its publication on Thursday (16 June), contains a set of commitments related to online advertising, tacking manipulative practices, transparency and access to data.

Google, Meta and Microsoft presented a united front to lawmakers on Tuesday (14 May), when they called on governments to stop investing in surveillance companies and curb the growing use of sophisticated software like Pegasus.

Burkina Faso on Tuesday (14 June) began three days of mourning after 79 people died in one of the bloodiest massacres in a nearly seven-year-old insurgency by armed Islamists.

During the pandemic, member states were "very selfish" and cooperated “as little as possible” with the Commission, Philippe Juvin, one of the leaders of the French Republicans party and former MEP, told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

Food safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides stood by the EU executive's plans to revise the EU's pesticide framework but stopped short of committing to a date to publish its proposal after 10 member states wrote a letter expressing “serious doubts".

The row over the European Union's sustainable finance rules, often simplified as "the EU taxonomy", has been, to put it bluntly, a hot mess. Yet, it may produce an unexpected boon as the European Parliament gets to show some teeth in the process.

The German Federal Cartel Office has initiated proceedings against Apple in order to examine its tracking regulations and app tracking transparency framework, suspecting the US giant of possibly giving preferential treatment to its own offerings.

Join this EURACTIV – GIGAEurope Digital Debate to discuss how, through collective action and multi-stakeholder approaches, we can enable a green and digital transition that works for all. Questions to be discussed include: -How does the current energy crisis, amplified by the current geopolitical situation, impact the Green Deal objectives and their implementation? How can green ICT contribute to a solution? -What are the indices, metrics or KPIs that industry and stakeholders can agree to? How can industry, regulators, and policy makers reach a consensus on standardising data and methodologies? -What should be taken into account when discussing the twin transition and the environmental footprint of the ICT sector? -By what means should policy makers and stakeholders map sustainability-related actions in the sector and determine what should be counted towards these goals?

Pope Francis has taken a new series of swipes at Russia for its actions in Ukraine, saying its troops were brutal, cruel and ferocious and that the invasion violated a country's right to self-determination.

Although EU member states are meant to spend at least half of the revenue from the sale of CO2 allowances on climate action, many are using them as subsidies for the installation of new fossil fuel boilers or to reduce energy prices in industry, writes Isa Mulder.