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Low-volume hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, will be allowed in Slovenia under amendments to the mining act adopted by the government this week. It will pave the way for limited fracking in the only location where it is currently...

About 68% of parents support the introduction of legal restrictions on unhealthy food advertising while children watch television, according to a survey conducted in November. According to the same research on children’s exposure to television advertising of food and beverages...

The Romanian government will discuss new measures to help consumers affected by the increase in energy prices and measures to force energy suppliers to redo wrongly-issued bills. Romania adopted last year a law that caps electricity and natural gas prices...

Alliance, the Hungarian minority party in Slovakia founded by the merger in October of three political parties, all disagree on who to support in Hungary’s elections in April. While SMK (Party of the Hungarian Community) openly supports Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is launching a website to fight disinformation in Hungary, just three months before elections that will determine Orbán’s grip on power - however, experts remain sceptical.

European Commission proposals to bring shipping into the bloc's carbon market contain exclusions for small commercial and military vessels that would leave millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions unregulated, an NGO study showed on Thursday (13 January).

The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and the opposition clashed on Wednesday in parliament during the debate on the new amendments to the education law, which the government’s critics say will limit parents’ control over their children’s education. The...

The EU needs to intensify its cooperation on green innovation with other parts of the world, writes Mats Engström.

A total of 107 nations and almost 7,000 companies will be represented at this year’s 42nd edition of the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) in Madrid from 19 January, with the Dominican Republic as a special partner, EURACTIV’s partner EFE and...

Over half the families in Italy (50.2%) went without health care services, partially due to COVID-19, between spring 2020 and November 2021, the Cerved Group’s 2022 report on Italian Household Welfare presented Wednesday in Rome has found. At the same...

TAP Group has decided to close the operations of Maintenance and Engineering Brazil (TAP ME), as part of the restructuring plan approved by Brussels in December, the airline’s chief executive, Christine Ourmières-Widener, told Lusa on Wednesday. “It was not an...

Biotech startup company Immunethep is developing an injectable vaccine, and a treatment against bacterial infections, based on research developed at the University of Porto, technology that promises to be revolutionary, the company’s director has advocated. The vaccine under development against...

The government is proposing SEK 6 billion (€584 million) in aid to compensate the 1.8 million households hardest hit by high electricity prices, Finance Minister Mikael Damberg told a press conference. According to the proposal, households hardest hit by the...

Amid tensions with Russia over Ukraine, the EU is set to enshrine stronger support, including in security and defence, for its Eastern partners, according to the latest version of the bloc’s upcoming military strategy document, seen by EURACTIV. “The EU...

Ireland will grant adopted people automatic access to their original birth certificates and the identities of their birth parents under a new law published on Wednesday. The Birth Information and Tracing Bill will, for the first time, give people over...

European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič will be wined and dined on Thursday evening with Scottish smoked salmon, Welsh lamb and Kent apple pie, when he meets Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at her official country residence for two days of...

The permanent council of the world's largest security body will meet in Vienna on Thursday (13 January), hoping to push Russia, the United States and its European allies towards dialogue to defuse the mounting crisis on Ukraine's border.

The violent attack on the French MP Stéphane Claireaux at his home on 9 January has put the issue of threats, harassment, and attacks on elected representatives back in the spotlight. These are increasing at a worrying rate, both in number and...

“It is very good” that France holds the EU council presidency while Germany holds the G7 presidency, Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the German parliament on 12 January. During the traditional Q&A session between MPs and the government, Scholz was asked...

Bulgaria is on the verge of abandoning the “golden passports” scheme because a majority in parliament recognises that it hinders the poorest EU member state. On Wednesday, the Council of Ministers adopted a bill to eliminate the sale of investment...