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Measures addressing copyright infringements are often a hot topic in EU digital policies. We discussed what is the state of play and trends in the EU with Alexandra Poch, Deputy Director of the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property...

Bulgaria has an estimated 500 billion cubic meters (bcm) of shale gas but the current legislation prevents its exploitation and the current government has no plans to change the status quo, despite Russia having stopped the supplies. The country needs three bcm per year.

After more than eight years of stalled negotiations on a comprehensive EU-India trade agreement, the two are set to formally restart talks from mid-June, with the aim to strike an agreement before both head to the polls in 2024.

“You need more water,” Monica Pasqua, owner and founder of a small agritourism business on the Italian island of Sardinia, said as she peered at my (admittedly feeble) attempts at moulding pasta dough into the traditional Sardinian 'malloreddus'.

In an about-turn, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, acknowledged that the EU’s electricity market “does not work anymore” and needs to be adapted to the “new realities of dominant renewables”.

Google Analytics' use is not legal without a new deal that would replace the disgraced EU-US data processing agreement, French data watchdog CNIL recently clarified on its website, which also dashed hopes that the tool could be reconfigured to allow data transfers to the US.

It seems 55 isn’t actually fit, common charger is a massive hit, and Angela Merkel is hard to acquit.

While grain has become a "means of war" and solidarity with Ukraine is a top priority right now, pressing the pause button on environmental and climate protection would be fatal because "climate crisis will not pause either", a senior official at the German agriculture ministry told EURACTIV.

Ukrainian forces were holding their positions in intense street fighting and under day and night shelling in Severodonetsk, officials said, as Russia pushes to control the bombed-out city, key to its objective of controlling eastern Ukraine.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Albanian inflation and fuel prices reaching all-time highs, the Danish government failing to fund a Kosovo prison over an EU law row, and so much more.

In a series of tweets in the Greek language, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has directly threatened Greeks not to go too far with their stance in the Aegean Sea, otherwise “they will regret” it.  The Greek government called for...

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute on Thursday (9 June) to Tsar Peter the Great on the 350th anniversary of his birth, drawing a parallel between what he portrayed as their twin historic quests to win back Russian lands.

Despite an adequate and friendly global response, the only option to restore grain exports from Ukraine is to win the war as Russia can not be trusted in any plan aimed at unblocking seaports in the South of the country, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

The European Parliament approved a resolution on global threats to abortion rights on Thursday (9 June) in light of the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade, following a heated plenary debate.

Finland's government plans to amend border legislation to allow the building of barriers on its eastern frontier with Russia, it said on Thursday (9 June), in a move to strengthen preparedness against hybrid threats amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian war against Ukraine will inevitably result in a severe economic shock of uncertain magnitude in the European Union. Rapid increases in food and energy prices are affecting the most vulnerable Europeans, aggravating energy poverty and worsening living conditions.

Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine were sentenced to death on 9 June by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), one of Russia's proxies in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.

With two days to go before the first round of the French legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron said he will reform and reinforce the police on Thursday (9 June) after it being in the spotlight over a series of botched operations. EURACTIV France reports.

Budget aircraft Ryanair is passing on a Hungarian government “extra profits” tax to passengers, charging €9.87 (HUF 3,900) even on bookings made before the tax was imposed, the company informed on Thursday. The company added that passengers who do not...