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Despite years of work on the Green Deal, there are still no obligations for large companies in all sectors to actually reduce their emissions. The impending Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) offers a unique opportunity to force them to change their business model, writes Uku Lilleväli.

Europe's defence industry must speed up production for the bloc to meet its target of providing one million ammunition rounds to Ukraine by March, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday (13 November).

EU member states are still divided on the inclusion of rape as an EU-level crime in the proposed directive on combating violence against women ahead of the third trilogue set to take place on Tuesday (14 November).

The EU’s cybersecurity agency, ENISA, announced on Monday (13 November) that it will work with Ukraine to enhance cybersecurity by exchanging best practices, information sharing, and capacity-building.

Germany saw an average of 10 farms go out of business every day in the last decade, according to the German government's agricultural policy report, which has spurred associations and the opposition to call on the agriculture minister to take action.

With EU elections looming and the fate of a number of key sustainability files up in the air, agrifood stakeholders are facing an uncertain few months. What does this mean for the future shape of EU food policy in the...

The European Commission is currently modelling options for potential changes to college makeup for the next mandate, according to sources, amid calls from agrifood stakeholders for a new Executive Vice-President for Food.

With Israeli forces now deep inside Gaza, some two weeks after the start of a ground operation to destroy the Islamist movement Hamas, EU foreign ministers on Monday (13 November) started looking into what the future may look like after the fighting ends.

The radical transformation of the economy towards a more decarbonised and digital industry will change the skills that are in demand. But how can these skills be acquired in sufficient quantity and speed, and who is responsible for making this...

A deal to keep migrants in Albania while waiting for their asylum applications to be processed by Italy is ‘unacceptable’ and ‘not compatible with the legislation’, the Spanish socialist MEP Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar told Euractiv.

“It’s the economy, stupid.” The phrase was coined by American political consultant James Carville in a TV quip in 1992 when he was advising Bill Clinton in his successful run for the White House.

Auctions have always been a friend to clean technology, with the cost of wind and solar projects in Europe dropping substantially over two decades thanks to bidding schemes that incentivise developers to ask for lower and lower levels of subsidies. It is clear that this same mechanism will help reduce green hydrogen prices.

As European employers complain about skills shortages, a study shows that European workers feel financially stressed, that they are more unlikely to upskill than US workers and that they feel less confident that their employers will help pay for their further education.

Some 900 earthquakes hit southern Iceland on Monday (13 November), authorities said, adding to tens of thousands of tremors that rattled the region in recent weeks as the country braces for what could become a significant volcanic eruption.

There was no evidence linking the former digital campaign manager of the European People's Party to bribes allegedly received during the 2019 EU election campaign, German prosecutors announced on Monday (13 November), concluding a year-long case that involved a raid of the EPP headquarters in Brussels.

Divisions over the war in the Middle East, the Italy-Albania migration deal, and other political events involving Socialist leaders underlined the fragility of the European Socialist family during its congress in Málaga last weekend, just seven months before the next European elections.

Czech health insurance providers will not be able to penalise patients based on previous cancer diagnoses if they have successfully completed treatment, following a deal based on the “right to be forgotten” by ministers and insurance companies. 

United Nations workers observed a minute's silence on Monday (13 November) to honour the more than 100 employees killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began last month, the largest toll of humanitarian workers in the organisation's 78-year history.

The EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories, as well as several Arab countries, later this week as part of a wider effort to discuss humanitarian aid to Gaza and political issues with regional leaders.

As of 1 November, a broader group of Polish women will have access to preventive screenings for the early detection of breast and cervical cancer, but experts warn that more should be done.