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Google opened the doors of its third Cybersecurity Centre in Europe on Wednesday (29 November), pledging $10 million for cyber skills training.

Cattle farms have been excluded from new rules to cut harmful industrial emissions in a deal by the European Parliament and the EU Council that waters down the Commission’s environmental ambitions.

Thanasis Bakolas, secretary general of the EPP, said he was confident that the party's national leaders would "do the right thing" and back Ursula von der Leyen for a second term at the helm of the European Commission, while warning of possible "disruptors" from other political parties.

The high-level meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council has been officially postponed, confirming that the initiative has slipped down the priority list on both sides of the pond.

EU health ministers approved on Thursday (30 November) a series of recommendations to tackle mental health issues in member states, emphasising the need for a multidisciplinary approach. 

Germany's internal fiscal discussion is currently the biggest obstacle to a deal on a mid-term revision of the EU's seven-year financing plan, the EU's Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said in an interview on Thursday (30 November).

EU co-legislators agreed on the directive to address the growing number of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) and protect defendants from unfounded, abusive litigation on matters of public interest.

In science, the phrase 'quantum jump' or 'quantum leap' refers to a change of the state of an electron in an atom or molecule from one energy state to another, but in everyday usage, it describes a great improvement in a situation or a significant advance.

Green chief and MEP Terry Reintke (Germany), GroenLinks MEP Bas Eickhout (Netherlands), former Latvian presidential candidate Elīna Pinto, and the spokesperson for the Young European Greens, Benedetta Scuderi (Italy), are running to be one of the two European Greens' lead candidates in the EU elections. 

ETSI, one of Europe’s standardisation organisations, has just elected the representative of an American company to chair its main decision-making body – despite the European Commission's ‘digital sovereignty’ push.

The problem with international fisheries governance is not simply a result of the obscurity of the Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs, for short) that oversee it, or even of the RFMOs' near-singular focus on industrial fishing, but that these organizations can’t even manage the fisheries properly. 

In this edition of EU Politics Decoded, we take a look at the conflict between the UK and Greece over the status of the Parthenon sculptures.

The German government must present emergency programmes to improve its climate policy in the transport and buildings sector, a Berlin court ruled on Thursday (30 November), after the country repeatedly failed to meet emission reduction targets.

EU member states' position on the long-term residents directive is ‘far less ambitious’ than the European Parliament's position, indicating tough negotiations ahead, MEP Damian Boeselager, who will be Parliament's lead negotiator on the proposal, warned in an interview with Euractiv.

International leaders are under pressure to make ambitious pledges to the loss and damage fund ahead of the COP28 climate summit, write Caroline Chebet and Tim Concannon.

Europe and the world face many technical and societal challenges when it comes to climate change and conservation efforts. While there has been a recent push to increase awareness of these issues, these efforts often fall short of their goals...

Urging for “immediate action” to hit the EU’s newly-adopted target of at least 42.5% renewable energy by 2030, European Commission Vice President for the Green Deal Maroš Šefčovič presented a “European Wind Power Action Plan” as one path to get there.

Today marks 365 days since India assumed the G20 Presidency. It is a moment to reflect, recommit, and rejuvenate the spirit of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future.', writes PM Modi.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s transport committee voted on Wednesday (29 November) to make it easier to enforce penalties on motorists visiting from other EU countries for traffic violations - though local authorities say the measures do not go far enough.

Whole grains must be integrated into children’s diets early in life to create healthy lifelong habits and curb life-threatening diseases, according to experts, who called for the inclusion of grains into the EU School Scheme and public procurement of food.