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The industry and trade ministry has been negotiating with the Oman gas company over potential LNG imports to the country, with Czechia potentially investing in local fields and pipelines to secure energy supplies. Three deputies from the ministry recently attended...

The European Commission’s plans to favour and enforce the instalment of solar panels on commercial properties and public buildings is reminiscent of an old-style planned economy, the Finnish industry and trade sectors say. The aim of the REPowerEU plan, launched...

It is important to ensure that a solidarity fund for Ukraine will not lead to additional joint EU debt, Chancellor Karl Nehammer told lawmakers in the parliament’s EU committee. Challenged by lawmakers from the far-right FPÖ to ensure financial support...

The leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia on Monday (30 May) scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia which his predecessor had scheduled for July 17.

After several weeks of drawn-out negotiations mostly stalled by Hungary, EU leaders on Monday (30 May) struck a political compromise to ban seaborne imports of Russian oil by the end of the year, but fell short of a full embargo.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov attended on Monday (30 May) a pre-summit meeting of the liberal ALDE political party in Brussels, heralding the future European political affiliation of his party “We continue the change”.

Ceemet, the employers’ association of the metal, engineering and technology-based industries at a European level, is celebrating its 60th birthday at a time of fast technological change and an insecure trade environment. Prices are skyrocketing, skill requirements for the workforce...

Pushed by record-high energy prices, year-on-year inflation reached 7.4% in April of this year for the euro area. This is squeezing industrial companies in Europe, according to the president of Ceemet, a European tech and industry employers’ organisation.

Spending on climate action in the EU’s 2014-2020 budget was “not as high as reported” in official documents, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said in a report published on Monday (30 May).

Germany, France and Poland must offer political leadership on the Ukraine crisis, starting with finalising an embargo on Russian oil, writes Marcin Korolec.

In this special edition of the EURACTIV agrifood podcast, EURACTIV’s agrifood team takes you on a tour of 7 of Europe’s capitals, including France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Poland and Ireland, to hear about their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) strategic...

EU leaders will consider all available ways to circumvent the food export blockade imposed by Russia on Ukraine's ports, including a naval mission to escort cargo ships, but will not concede to Russia's demands to lift sanctions, sources told EURACTIV.

One of the worst crimes against humanity was the man-made famine in Ukraine in the 1930s known as Holodomor, orchestrated by communist dictator Joseph Stalin.

The proposed EU AI Act from April 2021, by excluding general purpose AI systems, risks endangering our fundamental rights and safety. In the first partial compromise Council text, the Slovenian Presidency introduced a new article on general purpose AI systems that fails to address the harms arising from these AI systems.

EU leaders gathering in Brussels on Monday (30 May) are set to discuss whether to give the political green light to watered-down plans for a full embargo on Russian oil, thrashed out by EU diplomats on Monday morning.

The new REPowerEU Plan presented last week by the European Commission is the latest proposal of measures that would speed up the transformation of Europe’s energy landscape. 

The technical standards that will implement the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act will be developed jointly by the three European standardisation bodies, according to a draft standardisation request obtained by EURACTIV.

EU action on tackling deforestation is urgently needed, as rising demand for commodities is exacerbating pressure on land worldwide. To have an impact on deforestation rates, the EU cannot act alone nor focus exclusively on cleaning its own supply chains.

The bold proposals set out by the European Commission to get a grip on the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the internet are probably some of the most aggressive measures so far in the battle to protect children online, writes Dan Sexton.

A loophole in the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) could undermine EU countries' efforts to impose stricter rules on alcohol advertising, threatening a key objective of the EU's Beating Cancer Plan.