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The agreement on the Asylum and Migration Deal was met again with high levels of contention among the co-governing German Green party, forcing its leadership to justify the outcome and calm their party base.

Southern European member states such as Greece and Italy rushed to welcome the new EU migration pact, but there are still questions about whether the new rules will ease the burden of first-line countries.

While December's political agreement on the AI Act could deliver a competitive edge for Europe, commercial AI consolidation risks widening the EU’s substantial regional innovation divide.

Ships that have a particularly low environmental grade should face penalties, such as restrictions from entering EU ports, an environmental advocacy group has said, arguing that doing so will incentivise global maritime companies to cut their carbon footprint.

What is it like to face a far-right pariah and islamophobe at the other end of the festively decorated Christmas table?

Without a collective approach to immersive learning, Europe risks being dwarfed by international competitors in an area revolutionising how people acquire education and skills. The continent’s first association is building commons to prevent this.

Three pornography websites will have to abide by strict EU rules after being included on the Digital Services Act's (DSA) very large online platforms list, the EU Commission announced on Wednesday (20 December).

Eleven EU countries have called on the EU to take full account of "all fossil-free energy sources" when elaborating future energy and climate policies, according to a joint statement issued on Tuesday (19 December) by the French-led Nuclear Alliance.

Much is at stake in the reform of EU debt rules, which could also threaten the very existence of the euro, Social Democrat MEP Joachim Schuster told Euractiv in an interview.

EU institutions have reached a political agreement on five regulations that, for the first time, will lay down a harmonised approach to migration management for Europe, though NGOs have criticised the deal as going against basic human rights.

Europe has relied immensely on Chinese production for its solar growth, and analysts are warning that maintaining this reliance will make all renewable targets subject to the whims of Beijing.

Banks and financial institutions see investment in scaling up bio-based technologies as “non-bankable” despite these initiatives offering clear paths to reaching government-set environment and climate targets. What’s going wrong?

The Belgians have a packed in-tray as they take over at the helm of the EU Council Presidency in January, as they aim to cover a broad array of health topics and close key files before the European elections take over the agenda in June.

The European Commission proposed to lower the protection status of wolves in Europe based on new data, while environmentalists accused the Commission president of instrumentalising the issue and questioned the scientific basis for the step.

On December 5 DG Energy finally published its data on the origins of renewable fuels certified for transport under the Renewable Energy Directive.  The findings are worse than feared.  James Cogan is a policy advisor to Ethanol Europe. The data...

“Ethical and non-discriminatory” artificial intelligence can support personalisation in digital education, a senior European Commission official told Euractiv in an interview, reflecting on the 2023’s edition of the DigiEduHack annual event.

According to information gathered by Euractiv, the draft proposal of the Commission's long-awaited telecom white paper could including market deregulation, cloudification, infrastructure resilience and spectrum.

When it was launched in 2012, the EU’s bioeconomy strategy was focused mostly on the production of fuels for transport; but that policy has since been reversed to focus instead on bio-based chemicals and materials like textiles and bioplastics.

Europe needs stronger policies for bio-based products in order to make it clear that virgin fossil products do not compete in the same category, Rob Beekers argues in an interview with Euractiv. Rob Beekers is Business Development Director at Cargill,...

Both the Pfizer and the Euroins case illustrate the failure of the Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen to enforce her own commitments on transparency, writes Dick Roche.