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Madrid will respond soon in a constructive but firm way to Algeria after the country announced a temporary freeze of its foreign trade relations with Spain, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Thursday. Algeria announced Wednesday (8 June) the...

Spain and Portugal next week will start subsidising fossil fuel power plants' generation costs, under a €8.4 billion scheme designed to pull down electricity prices for consumers and industry.

The government failed to gather the necessary support in the Danish parliament, Folketing, to fund a prison it planned to rent in Kosovo due to a row over an EU-imposed tax. In December 2021, Denmark signed an agreement with Kosovo to rent...

German chancellor Olaf Scholz warned on Thursday (9 June) that the globe is heading towards a multipolar world order that could diminish international solidarity and lead to renewed block building and deglobalization.

France will adopt the first series of measures to limit the damage to public hospitals ahead of what is expected to be a difficult summer, Health Minister Brigitte Bourgignon announced on Wednesday (8 June). EURACTIV France reports.

Battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles offer a promising clean alternative for the commercial road transport sector. However, many operators are reluctant to adopt the new technology given the slow rollout of recharging stations across Europe. In this special...

The strengthening of the private sector is a pivotal goal for Europe if it wants to deal with current crises, and women must significantly contribute to it, Danish MEP and former entrepreneur Pernille Weiss told EURACTIV.

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the EU has sent over €50 billion to Russia in payment for fossil energy.

The European Commission's decision to green-light the Polish Recovery Plan on 1 June has prompted an angry backlash from the European Parliament, with MEPs passing a resolution on Thursday demanding that ministers block the approval of €35.4 billion of EU grants and loans to Warsaw.

The war in Ukraine has elevated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, until recently a political outsider, to the status of a great leader of the Ukrainians and a symbol of courage for the whole world.

On the eve of its 125th anniversary, Renault is determined to disrupt the global mobility industry through its newest brand Mobilize. “We don’t want to sell cars, we want to sell services” boldly says Mobilize CEO, Clotilde Delbos.

The European Innovation Council (EIC) will provide €20 million in funding for Ukrainian startups, the Commission has announced, just days after an MEP launched an investigation into the problems that have plagued the body since its launch.

The European Union on Thursday (9 June) urged Algeria to reverse a decision to suspend its cooperation treaty with EU member Spain, urging dialogue to resolve the dispute.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Many forget the deal still often hailed as ‘historic’ reached in the midst of the pandemic was not only about joint borrowing to the tune of €750...

Lawmakers from Renew Europe and European People's Party have filed similar amendments to the platform workers directive in a bid to push back against the rapporteur's draft report.

This event was organised by the European Paper Packaging Association (EPPA). EPPA represents food and foodservice packaging companies from across Europe. Their priority is to provide paper-based low carbon and health-safe products with a low environmental impact and improved recycling solutions to the European population. EPPA supports science-based EU policies that foster sustainable and efficient use of resources and recognises the major role that packaging, as essential infrastructure, can play in that common objective.

EU Justice Ministers adopted a regulation to establish a digital cooperation platform for Joint Investigation Teams (JITs), inaccessible by customs despite German pressure. The regulation is part of the ongoing effort to modernise and digitalise cross-border judicial cooperation and was...

The Kazakh authorities at first tried to stigmatise as terrorists and outcasts those who had taken to the streets in January, but they are very aware of the scale of public discontent and are trying to respond to them, political analyst Anastassiya Reshetnyak said in an interview.

During communism, the Romanian state was one of the world's top exporters of arms, with a 230,000-strong workforce. Today the public sector employs just 10,000 people, its factories are in debt, and stakeholders are uncertain about the future.

This week on Beyond the Byline: the Minimum Wage Directive and the Open Balkan Initiative.