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Germany opposes any increase in the EU’s long-term budget beyond the €50 billion in aid planned for Ukraine, government officials said ahead of the EU leaders’ summit on Thursday and Friday, citing the country’s domestic budget crisis. At the European...

Seven European Union member states, including Malta, are pushing for governments to have the right to use spyware against journalists under the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which was supposed to create a framework that protects them. Minutes from a...

Hungary's parliament on Tuesday (12 December) passed a package of laws to curb foreign influence, which critics fear could be used to crack down on dissent against nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government.

French political heavyweights are raising their voices to warn against the risks of an unbalanced and counterproductive debt rules reform, as negotiations look to wrap up before year-end and austere German criteria appear to be here to stay.

Brussels is expected to unlock €10 billion in EU funding for Hungary on Wednesday (13 December), on the eve of a decisive summit on support for Ukraine that Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has threatened to derail. EU leaders will...

MEPs have demanded a greater role in the election of the European Commission president, calling for a clearer link between the European election results and the leadership of the EU executive.

The European Commission proposed on Tuesday (12 December) blocking all profits from the sanctioned Russian sovereign assets in the EU into separate accounts, in the first step towards making use of them to finance Ukraine's reconstruction. 

The European Parliament agreed its stance on new rules defining the minimum rest periods for tour bus drivers on Tuesday (12 December), earning applause from industry and criticism from workers’ groups.

At COP28, international leaders once again fell short of embracing energy efficiency targets, representing perhaps the biggest missed opportunity of the decade. Meet energy efficiency, the magical millions of hard-to-grasp levers that allow us to do more while consuming less...

In a plenary vote on Tuesday (12 December), MEPs voted in favour of an own-initiative report calling for more direct funding for mental health action and identification of high-risk populations.

The European Parliament adopted with a broad majority the initiative to make digital platforms less addictive at its plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday (12 December).

Shame on German and French governments for letting down all women and girls in Europe! The European Women’s Lobby appeals to the Governments of France and Germany to reconsider their disgraceful decision to reject - once again - the proposal of including a consent-based definition of rape in the Directive on violence against women and domestic violence. Their decision to reject the Spanish Presidency’s compromise proposal based on the wording of the Istanbul Convention is blocking the negotiations and putting the whole Directive at stake.

France will give the green light to new investments in nuclear fusion, natural hydrogen, energy storage and carbon capture, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday (11 December).

The BBC did not publish a video claiming that a Ukrainian politician sold arms to Hamas as suggested by images circulating online that carry BBC branding and cite investigative group Bellingcat, the Reuters Fact Check team has found.

The 28th United Nations Climate Change conference just wrapped up in Dubai. 118 nations pledged to triple renewable energy by 2030. But what about their water dependency? The water crisis still needs to be tackled. Globally, 69% of the publicly...

South Korea's president kicked off a visit to the Netherlands Tuesday (12 December), hoping to forge a "chip alliance" between the two global semiconductor powerhouses amid growing tech tensions with China.

National leaders must agree to open a new European convention to reform the EU treaties and deliver on the recommendations made by the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Most EU agriculture ministers have voiced their resolve to continue work on the EU’s contentious pesticide regulation, despite the European Parliament voting against the file and further negotiations on it.

EU countries are implementing the updated Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2), in force since January, with varying degrees of progress. To provide an overview of the state of play, Euractiv interviewed Nicolas Sonder and Mailin von Knobelsdorff, PwC experts on cybersecurity.

The International Probiotics Association Europe (IPA Europe) is deeply committed to promoting the responsible use of probiotics in food and food supplements. In this statement IPA Europe asks for an evaluation of the current understanding of the term ‘probiotic’ in the EU and to set up clear criteria to prevent the indiscriminate use of the term 'probiotic' and its potential misinterpretation. The full text is available here.