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With the European Commission due to present the Sustainable Products Action Plan to the Council on 30 March, Emmanuel Katrakis, Secretary General of EuRIC, the Confederation representing the interests of the bloc's recycling industry, takes stock of the circular economy in Europe in an interview with EURACTIV France.

Russian forces in Ukraine are blasting cities and killing civilians but no longer making progress on the ground, Western countries said on Thursday, as a war Moscow was thought to have hoped to win within days entered its fourth week.

Europe must fully displace Russian coal, oil and gas as fast as possible. The only option is to initiate a three-step embargo on Russian energy commodities imports to the EU – coal immediately, oil in the coming weeks, and gas by the end of the year, writes Thierry Bros.

European cloud players, including France's OVHcloud, have brought a new case before the European Commission, claiming that US-based giant Microsoft is engaging in anti-competitive practices on the market

In an interview with EURACTIV, the Ukrainian Business and Trade Association (UBTA) argued for support to its agricultural industry, help with transport infrastructure and a Marshall plan for after the war.

What exactly is Sustainable Forest Management? What are the main principles?

Albanians have been protesting for more than a week over price increases of food, fuel, and energy. The government, however, has called them a national shame and said their protests were serving Russia and the Kremlin - a claim activists have entirely dismissed.

Slovakia has preliminarily agreed to provide Ukraine with a key Soviet-era air defense system to help defend against Russian airstrikes, according to three sources familiar with the matter, CNN reported on Wednesday (16 March).

The Biden administration said on Wednesday (16 March) it had authorized additional exports of liquefied natural gas from Cheniere Energy's, approvals that can likely help Europe deal with an energy crunch worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The European Union will struggle to cut dependence on Russian gas, but must do so to avoid possible supply shortfalls next winter, a Portuguese minister said on Wednesday (16 March), adding Portugal's liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports could help.

Poland wants to buy MQ-9 Reaper drones from the United Statesin the near future and is eyeing further procurements at a later date amid rising security concerns three weeks into a Russian invasion of its neighbour Ukraine.

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A group of 102 lawmakers in the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to withdraw its proposal to include fossil gas in the EU’s green finance taxonomy, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rendered the proposal obsolete.

A coalition of 18 civil society organisations as well as journalists has called on the Albanian police to stop using violence against protestors and respect the human rights of assembly following an increase in incidents. The call comes after police...

The government will payoff a €30 million loan due to Credit Suisse Bank on 11 April to get back the gold placed as collateral on that loan, Finance and Social Welfare Minister Milojko Spajić has said. “We will not only...

Atrocities committed every day in many places in Ukraine show that Russian troops are a horde of war criminals supervised by the top-level criminals who are challenging the existing world order and principles of European and democratic civilisation, writes Roman Rukomeda.

There is a 19th-century Russian saying - “to earn a rouble and keep one’s honour” - which applied with irony to people who try to do good, play by the rules and still receive personal gain. Like so many others in the past, the world's tech giants failed at both when Russia invaded Ukraine, writes Janusz Cieszyński.

North Macedonia’s central bank said on Wednesday that it had decided to leave its policy rate unchanged at the historically low level of 1.25%, as the current monetary stance supports lending to companies and citizens, providing support for the economy’s...