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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in Sarajevo on Sunday, kicking off a mini tour of four Western Balkan countries, three of which are not members of the military alliance and are seen as posing potential security risks. Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Donald Tusk will not be my prime minister’ reads the title of an upcoming interview with Polish President Andrzej Duda for the right-wing Sieci weekly, which will be published on Monday. Speaking to the magazine sympathising with the currently ruling...

Left-wing party Unidas Podemos (The Left) continued to fight fiercely within the progressive Sumar platform on Sunday evening to secure at least the key Ministry of Equality in Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s new coalition government, due to be announced...

Slovakia’s new government programme confirmed the intention to block some critical EU reforms under discussion, such as on migration or foreign policy, while simultaneously emphasising “business opportunities” for Slovak companies in reconstructing Ukraine. According to the programme put forward by...

Israel said on Sunday (19 November) that Yemen's Houthis had seized a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship in the southern Red Sea, describing the incident as an "Iranian act of terrorism" with consequences for international maritime security.

As cyber threats continue to multiply, governments are looking at the option of controversial cyber defence operations such as hackbacks, a new action plan published on Tuesday (21 November) and seen by Euractiv states. As governments struggle to reign in...

The three biggest EU countries are pushing for mandatory codes of conduct for foundation models rather than prescriptive obligations in the AI rulebook, according to a non-paper seen by Euractiv.

In this week’s edition: Future of EU's Russia sanctions, Gaza plans and EI defence inquiry.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sanctioned 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other "Russian terror".

Restoring and connecting forests through community-driven action can capture up to 226 gigatonnes of carbon, roughly equivalent to a third of what humans have released since the beginning of the industrial era, according to new research.

Leaders from more than a dozen African countries are heading to Germany for the G20 Compact with Africa conference, which aims to help bolster private investment in the world's poorest, but fast-growing, continent.

Israel, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the deal.

The White House on Friday (17 November) condemned Elon Musk's endorsement of what it called a "hideous" antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, while major US companies paused their advertisements on his social media site.

In March 2023, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU will pursue a strategy of “de-risking, not de-coupling”, vis-à-vis China. In this short special report, Euractiv explores how this strategy impacts Chinese companies operating in Europe.

Packaging waste interest groups are aggressively lobbying at the European Parliament premises, in breach of the recently-approved ‘Qatargate’ internal rules, an official source from the European Parliament told Euractiv. On Wednesday (22 November), MEPs will vote on the draft Packaging...

With Europe’s AI rulebook at a delicate stage of negotiations, Carme Artigas, the Spanish Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, spoke to Euractiv about the state of play of the inter-institutional discussions.

Delyan Peevski, a politician sanctioned for corruption by Washington under the Global Magnitsky Act, threw his hat into the ring on Friday (17 November) to become the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), a political force affiliated with the liberal ALDE party.

Participatory budgeting is transforming municipal decision-making in European cities, allowing citizens to propose and vote on local projects funded by community resources. While examples like Wroclaw, Poland, stands out as a success story, the challenges persist, with varying awareness and...

It is hard to find many critics in Brussels of the EU’s new carbon levy that came into force in October. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is one of the few major pieces of law passed by Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission that secured cross-party support in the European Parliament. 

A cross-party coalition of Members of the European Parliament demanded that the European Commission take action following the revelations that sensitive data from European leaders was being sold to the highest bidder.