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As the tensions in Ukraine reach a critical phase, German chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to Kyiv and Moscow on Monday and Tuesday (14 and 15 February) in a bid to prevent the outbreak of war and bring Russia back to the negotiation table.

The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East.

Israeli police clashed with Palestinians in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Sunday (13 February) during a visit by a controversial far-right Jewish lawmaker that inflamed tensions.

Washington reaffirmed its warning that Russia could invade Ukraine at any moment and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz prepared to visit both countries in a bid to head off a crisis that Berlin said had reached a "critical" point.

In this week’s edition: EU's military engagement in Africa, diplomatic withdrawals from and diplomacy continuing over Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden told Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday (12 February) that the West would respond decisively to any invasion of Ukraine, adding such a step would produce widespread suffering and isolate Moscow.

The European Union’s diplomatic service told its non-essential staff in Ukraine on Friday (11 February) to leave the country as several EU countries issued warnings over growing fears of a Russian invasion and US President Joe Biden said "things could go crazy quickly".

The European Publishers Council (EPC) has filed a competition complaint against Google over what it describes as the tech company’s “stranglehold” on other businesses in the ad tech ecosystem.

The latest episode in the Nutri-score drama provides a clue that we are closing in on the season’s finale. Enough is enough, Italians must have thought when they’ve read the latest idea put forward by Serge Hercberg, the professor of...

Citizens contributing to the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), the EU's democracy engagement project, have made recommendations to widen the rule of law across member states.

With less than four months to go until a crucial NATO summit in Madrid and incumbent Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on his way out, the Western military alliance's leadership carousel has slowly started spinning.

Hundreds of researchers and organisations across Europe have repeated their demands for the EU to quickly confirm the association status of the UK to Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “With the European Chips Act, we are putting out the investments and the strategy. But the key to our...

This week is the week of pesticides, with both the leak of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive and new rules aimed at accelerating the approval process of biopesticides.

Lawmakers from across the political spectrum voiced support for a new EU fund to shield poor households from the impact of the green transition, although views diverge on where the money should come from and where it should go.

As tens of thousands of Russian troops mass near Ukraine's border, many in fellow ex-Soviet state Georgia are feeling a frightening sense of déjà vu.

As science reveals more and more links between air pollution and the effects of COVID-19, the pressure is mounting on the European Commission to set high ambitions in the upcoming revision of the EU's Air Quality Directive.

Renewable energies are to be used in German agriculture, as the agriculture, climate and environment ministries led by three Green ministers want moor areas - which are key for the climate - to be connected to agricultural photovoltaics. EURACTIV Germany reports.

French parties must not change the country’s national strategic plan in the event of a change of government after the elections in April, according to a Commission official, who told EURACTIV that the plan's "core elements" must not be touched and only fine-tuning would be possible.

Two years after the EU set out its blueprint for a ‘strategic partnership’ with Africa, the EU-African Union summit designed to seal the deal takes place in Brussels next Thursday (17 February). A series of glossy initiatives and promises will be unveiled but much still hangs in the air.