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It is just over a decade since the Arab Spring toppled autocratic regimes across the Maghreb region and ushered in a tenuous attempt at democracy. The experiment has only had mixed success. Only in Tunisia is multi-party democracy still a reality, and even there, it is under severe threat.

The system dividing Hungarians abroad along residency lines leaves many dissatisfied and under-represented but has drawn little interest from either the opposition or the ruling party in the run-up to a crucial national election on Sunday (3 April).

Russia will increase its use of non-Western currencies for trade with countries such as India, its foreign minister said on Friday, as he hailed New Delhi as a friend that was not taking a "one-sided view" on the Ukraine war.

The European Parliament’s agriculture committee (AGRI) has greenlit a new report on the EU's organic action plan, in which it stressed the need for market-driven solutions and more support for countries to draw up individual strategies to boost the sector.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “Step by step we are getting closer to a deal. Still issues we don’t agree on, but hopefully we...

Last week, the EU co-legislators reached an agreement on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), landmark legislation targeting the largest tech companies. We discuss the key points of the file with the European Parliament’s rapporteur Andreas Schwab.

The majority of unvaccinated people in an EU-wide Eurobarometer report said nothing can convince them to get a COVID jab. Overall, the majority is in favour of vaccination and half of the respondents are satisfied with the EU's vaccination strategy. 

The latest revamping of the EU’s geographical indications (GIs) policy was marked as "an evolution" without substantial changes but still ruffled the feathers of food producers and some member states, who would have liked to preserve the status quo of the framework.

MEPs and experts propose to scale up a city-level tool allowing citizens to decide how to spend a part of the municipal resources and let Europeans shape the EU budget expenditure.

With just days to the Serbian presidential, parliamentary and partial local elections on Sunday (3 April), more than 6,020 citizens have found themselves removed from voter lists in a move activists and researchers say is because they are ethnic Albanians.

Constructive ambiguity over Ukraine's future status could be a blessing in disguise for Kyiv and European security if it helps in ending the war and facilitating Ukraine's integration into the EU, write Janne Leino and Niklas Novaky.

Spiralling energy bills and disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine caused consumer prices in the eurozone to surge by a new record of 7.5%, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Friday (1 April).

This week, EURACTIV is once again talking about the hot topic on everyone’s lips right now – food security – and we hear about how German companies are cashing in from the Belarus sanctions. We also discuss our thoughts about...

Hungary's united opposition sees the national election on Sunday (3 April) as the first real chance in more than a decade to oust Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's well-entrenched Fidesz party, although many fear the elections will be far from fair.

A major overhaul to eliminate energy dependence on imports of coal, gas, oil, and nuclear fuel is essential for Ukraine to assert its sovereignty and gain energy independence, argues Iryna Stavchuk and Oleh Savytskyi.

The French Senate has put forward proposals to strengthen the independence of the French media, which are held by a limited number of large groups and governed by rules that have become "obsolete" with digital technology and the strong competition from American platforms.

The war in Ukraine is shifting the economic fundamentals behind the choice of fuel supplying district heating networks, with large-scale heat pumps becoming a more attractive option for energy operators looking to decarbonise.

The European Commission dodged a proposal coming from Eastern countries to set up a specific fund to cover the medical costs of Ukrainian refugees in EU member states.

Two Ukraine's military helicopters struck a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday (1 April), a Russian official has said, making the first accusation of a Ukrainian air strike on Russian soil since Moscow invaded its neighbour.

Roman Abramovich googles poison detection, Viktor Oban unravels before Hungary election, and Zelenskyy makes a Belgian connection.