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EU ambassadors on Thursday (2 June) gave their final approval to the sixth sanctions package on Russian seaborne oil and top bank Sberbank, after much wrangling with Hungary over the removal of Russian Orthodox leader Patriarch Kirill from the EU sanctions list.

Citizens' demand for rooftop solar photovoltaics is rapidly increasing, and governments should intervene through incentives and better permitting procedures, writes Seda Orhan.

The European Court of Justice this week slapped down an attempt by the boss of the Russian mercenary firm, the Wagner group, to be removed from an EU sanctions list.

Russia tightened its grip on a key target in a battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on Thursday (2 June) while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded for more Western arms to help Ukraine reach an “inflection point” and prevail...

North Korea on Thursday (2 June) skipped the diplomatic niceties for a combative tone when it took the helm of the Conference on Disarmament. “My country is still at war with the United States,” declared Pyongyang’s ambassador Han Tae-Song. Around...

Ukrainian president Voldomyr Zelenskyy has secured another boost to his EU aspirations after his party was approved as a member of the European liberal party on Thursday (2 June).

The European Commission approved the €35.4 billion recovery plan for Poland, but the funds will only be disbursed if Warsaw upholds reforms to the judiciary, the Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday (2 June).

With France's legislative elections due to take place on 12 and 19 June, EURACTIV France, in partnership with Europe Elects, gives you an overview of the current polls and voting intentions.

Speaking to a French audience, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tried to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by saying, “what would France do if Belgium banned the French language?”

This week on our Beyond the Byline podcast, we’re focusing on the extraordinary meeting of EU leaders in Brussels to discuss energy, Ukraine and food security. We’ll ask: What sanctions were discussed as part of the meeting? What’s happening with...

It is a self-evident truth that no modern economy can survive without a sufficient level of innovation. But the challenges our continent faces, from climate transition to the war on Ukraine, have made the solutions offered by technological advances more necessary than ever.

Each political group of the European Parliament submitted a few hundred amendments to the upcoming AI Act, setting the tone for future discussions.

The revision of the pharmaceutical strategy should include action to ensure equality in access to medicines, so there is no need to rely on voluntary industry initiatives to tackle the issue, Ancel·la Santos Quintano from the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) told EURACTIV.

The chair of the European Parliament's trade committee Bernd Lange argues that the EU needs more defensive instruments to safeguard its trade interests in an environment where multilateral trade rules are not respected.

The Belgian government drew attention to measures already in place to reduce gas consumption as more EU states were being cut off from Russian supplies earlier this week.

The EU ETS has been successful in reducing emissions, the European pulp and paper sector is a good example of this. Now it risks becoming overly complex and losing its key purpose as a simple and efficient price signal.

After a long back-and-forth, Germany's agriculture ministry has found a compromise with the European Commission over the implementation of the EU's Nitrate Directive, meaning it will likely avoid multi-million euro fines. EURACTIV Germany reports.

In order to target sexual child abuse online, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has spoken out in favour of securing the IP addresses of computers, for which the governing coalition wants to use the quick freeze method. 

The EU is planning an offensive to counter Russian narratives as to which Western sanctions are made responsible for the disruption to global supply of grains and fertilizers, EURACTIV.com has learnt.

Georgia’s application for EU membership did not come out of the blue. It was neither on a whim of the government nor a cynical exploitation of growing European sympathy towards Ukraine, write Nikoloz Samkaharadze and Giorgi Khelashvili.