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*Content-Type: Underwritten / Supported Often linked to hard work and manhood, smoking in Japan reached record levels in the 1960s with almost half of the population being smokers, especially men. Similarly to other parts of the world, smoking in Japan...

With a Trump 2.0 administration considered an increasingly realistic scenario in Brussels, Europe has started looking to future-proof its relations with Washington while Eurosceptics are hoping for a field day.

Welcome to Euractiv's Special CAPitals edition of the Agrifood Brief, dedicated to education and training available to farmers across Europe:

As of July 2023, the new EU Energy Efficiency Directive has been officially adopted by EU co-legislators, marking the culmination of a two-year legislative process. Central to this revision are targeted transparency provisions specifically addressing data centres. Owners and operators...

Stakeholders from international and regional organisations, government, the private sector, academia, and civil society participated in a joint event organised by CISPE and EUDCA, supported by SPAIN DC, and co-sponsored by AWS in Zaragoza, Spain. The goal of the event...

Sweden should consider leaving the EU if the transfer of power to Brussels goes "too far", Charlie Weimers, EU lawmaker and vice-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists, suggested at a congress of his Sweden Democrats (SD).

Welcome to Euractiv’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “In Parliament, there is a clear majority position in wanting obligations, perhaps limited but clear, for the developers of...

While the economic exchange of critical raw materials between the EU and Kazakhstan is mutually beneficial, both actors agreed on the need to go beyond this relationship in order to strengthen it in the future. As part of the EU...

The MEPs involved in the negotiations on the EU’s AI rulebook circulated a working paper detailing their proposed approach to regulating the most powerful Artificial Intelligence models on Friday (24 November). The AI Act, a landmark bill to regulate AI...

A temporary ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas took hold in the Gaza Strip on 24 November, the first in 48 days of conflict that has devastated the Palestinian enclave, but both sides warned that the war was far from over.

The EU’s Hydrogen Bank has begun operations and is offering €800 million to hydrogen producers to kickstart demand for the fuel crucial to industrial decarbonisation. By 2030, Europe wants to produce 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually. To get...

The EU's top military adviser called on more efforts from EU countries to buy into the future Rapid Deployment Capacity and future conflicts, counting on financial support from the EU to do so, general Robert Brieger told Euractiv in an interview, while post-war support to Ukraine is already being discussed.

In an interview with Euractiv France, Manon Aubry, lead candidate of the left-wing party "La France insoumise" ("France Unbowed", GUE/NGL) for the 2024 European elections, reflects on the current European mandate (2019-2024) and her wishes for the next one (2024-2029).

Building on its experience with government-led industrial development, South Korea uses direct government funds to nurture venture capital investments.

Annual net migration to the UK hit a record of 745,000 last year and stayed at elevated levels since, data showed, heaping pressure on PM Rishi Sunak to act to reduce it in the run up to an election.

The United States recently intervened to stop Amsterdam's Schiphol airport from restricting flight numbers, arguing it would unfairly affect US airlines. But rather than meddling in European affairs, the US should concentrate on its own aviation climate problem, argues Jo Dardenne.

The re-explosion of the Middle East’s conflict has brought a flood of illegal and harmful content across the web. We discussed how this crisis is, for the first time, testing the Digital Services Act, the EU’s content moderation rulebook, with...

Three major Greek shipping firms have stopped transporting Russian oil in recent weeks in order to avoid US sanctions now being imposed on some shipping firms carrying Russian oil, four traders told Reuters and shipping data showed.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Czech conservatives rejecting euro adoption, Germany announcing it will suspend its 'debt brake', and so much more.

Five members of the Serbian Radical Party, including the leader previously incarcerated, Vojislav Šešelj, have been charged with contempt of court before the International Residual Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, the party...