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Members of European Parliament passed a resolution on Wednesday (4 May) supporting the outcome of the Conference on the Future of Europe and changing EU treaties to facilitate the implementation of citizens' proposals.

French President Emmanuel Macron is not expected to name the next prime minister before the end of next week although he is already being officially sworn in for a second term on Saturday (7 May), as several prominent figures have reportedly already turned down the job.

As Russia’s war continues, the German government has been frantically looking for alternatives to Russian pipeline gas and mobile floating tankers repurposed to process LNG from around the world have become the government’s solution. To ship gas long-distance, it needs...

Given the circumstances, the European Union's economy is doing reasonably well. However, this success currently relies on the EU circumventing its own rules, putting into question how sensible they are in the first place.

Many Britons living in the EU feel disconnected from and embarrassed by their country since Brexit, according to new research published on Wednesday.

The French presidency of the EU Council has made a series of proposals regarding the enforcement of the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act, in a new compromise text seen by EURACTIV.

Polls open across the UK on Thursday (5 May) in local and regional elections that could prove historic in Northern Ireland and heap further pressure on embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Albanian healthcare workers fleeing en masse while the government remains unphased, Nordic countries supporting a fast Swedish and Finnish NATO ratification period, and so much more.

Giorgos Kyrtsos, an EU lawmaker of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), decided on Wednesday to leave the party and join the centrist Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. The move comes as a result of an ongoing row...

Dragan Čović, leader of the biggest Bosnian Croat party, the HDZ, criticised the decision of the national electoral commission to call countrywide elections for 2 October without implementing any changes to the electoral law sought by Croats. “We consider this...

A recent report has detailed how thousands of health workers fled to Germany in 2020, while Prime Minister Edi Rama has dismissed concerns about the loss of skilled workers in key sectors. The European Training Foundation published a report last...

The German government is ready to support Kosovo’s membership bid in the Council of Europe, Bundestag MP Knut Abraham has confirmed. On Twitter, Abraham confirmed he had reached out to the German government and received a positive response to his question about...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday said he wants all Western Balkans countries to join the EU but that Serbia must press ahead with reforms, including on media freedom, before it can join. “For Serbia, it is important that it...

Slovenia’s central bank has announced an adjustment of mortgage lending standards in a move that could spur demand for loans, even as it acknowledged that the housing market is already overheated. Lending requirements for those buying property will be relaxed...

The European Union has proposed a phased embargo of Russian oil but may find it tricky to implement, given Europe's complex distribution network and challenges in tracking crude once it is blended or refined.

Hospitals in Zagreb have refused to perform an abortion on a pregnant woman whose 24-week-old foetus was diagnosed with a malignant and deadly brain tumour, reviving the abortion debate in the staunchly Roman Catholic country. In Croatia, abortion is legal but...

Microprocessors are the backbone of our digital infrastructure and a key enabler for a more sustainable economy and carbon neutral future. Intel has made a commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our operations by 2040.

The investigation and prosecution of war crimes will be among the topics of the Czech EU Council presidency in the second half of 2022, Justice Minister Pavel Blazek (ODS, ECR) has said. Blažek is heading to Hague within the next...

Budapest and Bratislava are unhappy with the European Commission’s proposal to ban Russian black gold despite being given extra time to phase it out, while Sofia and Prague have jumped on the bandwagon and are now asking for special treatment. ...

The Spanish Social Security scheme (Seguridad Social) added 184,577 more contributors in April, and broke, for the first time, the threshold of 20 million people at work, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported, quoting official sources. According to sources, the latest data...