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A French court ordered the maximum fine against food delivery company Deliveroo on Tuesday (19 April) for not hiring couriers as employees but as self-employed as the EU prepares its directive to clarify platform workers' status. EURACTIV France reports.

US authorities have ended the national requirement to wear a face mask on public transport, including planes, trains, taxis, and buses, following a ruling by a Florida judge that the Biden administration’s mandate was unlawful.

Cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin were reported among children in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, the European Centre for Disease Control said on Tuesday (19 April). 

Viktor Orban's control over state institutions and the media is such that opposition parties in Hungary should give up the illusion that he can be unseated by elections, writes Kornel Klopfstein-Laszlo.

Climate innovation is crucial in de-risking the effort to decarbonise the economy, and European policymakers need to make this part of ETS reform, argue Andris Piebalgs and Alessia Virone.

Russia will use only conventional weapons in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in response to a question about the possible use of nuclear arms in the war.

There is an urgent need to focus on soil conservation, a global campaign originating in India is arguing in an attempt to highlight the threat to one of nature’s greatest resources.

If European states are to make good on their promises to protect their interests and their continent, they will need to stand side by side, but invest together, write a group of scientific advisers to the Armament Industry European Research Group.

When it comes to carbon emissions, some polluters such as the car industry or agriculture get all the spotlight, for better or worse, while others, such as professional sports, fly beneath the radar. Benjamin Kirchler is a research associate at...

In the weeks since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, reports and stories have emerged of potential abusive and exploitative situations in Ukraine and among those fleeing to neighboring countries. The European Council called on Member States to intensify...

The rape of civilisation, which the world vowed in 1945 to never allow again, is being repeated in Ukraine, writes Orhan Dragaš.

The Digital Services Act must protect our rights by including meaningful safeguards to uphold the fundamental rights of Internet users, especially for those engaged in the indispensable work of documenting war crimes. 

Two British fighters captured in Ukraine by Russian forces appeared on Russian state TV on Monday (18 April) and asked to be exchanged for a Ukrainian ally of President Vladimir Putin who is being held by the Ukrainian authorities.

Germany has released nearly €3 billion to acquire floating liquefied natural gas import terminals, the finance ministry said Friday (15 April), as it seeks to move away from dependence on Russian gas.

A Rolls-Royce design for a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) will likely receive UK regulatory approval by mid-2024 and be able to produce grid power by 2029, Paul Stein, chairman of Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors, told Reuters.

President Emmanuel Macron promised to put the environment at the heart of his government if he is re-elected next weekend, in a speech in southern France on Saturday (16 April) designed to appeal to young and green-minded voters.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Austria's chancellor not being proud of his recent visit to Moscow, many Bulgarians now rejecting Russia as a model state, and so much more.

Instances of chronic lung disease, diabetes, and cancer will increase in Albania over the next decade as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s ageing population, according to the National Health Strategy 2021-2030. Published in the official gazette,...

Open Democracy journalist Lyudmila Makey is the first Ukrainian journalist displaced by the war to move to Kosovo under the ‘Journalist in Residence’ scheme. “I thank all of you for enabling me to come to Kosovo. This programme will allow...

Vesna Medenica, who previously headed the Supreme Court for 17 years, was arrested on Monday just before she was about to take a flight from Podgorica Airport. Medenica, who is seen as being close to President Milo Đukanović, was apprehended...