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French President Emmanuel Macron called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas for the first time at the Gaza aid conference in Paris on Thursday, adding that France will increase its financial support to Gaza. On Thursday, France hosted an...

Outgoing Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren (D66/Renew) urged the next European Commission on Thursday to create a separate commissioner post for defence, stressing the need to boost arms procurement and military spending within the EU. Ollongren, who previously advocated for a larger EU...

Lawmakers in the European Parliament adopted their position on new pollution standards for road vehicles on Thursday (9 November), in a move seen as a win for conservative lawmakers who sought to limit costs for the car industry.

Italy’s left-wing Democratic Party has called for Albania’s Socialist Party, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, to be expelled from the European Socialist Party over the controversial deal he struck with conservative Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to process asylum seekers picked up from Italian waters in northern Albania.

Gaza officials said Israel launched air strikes on or near at least three hospitals on Friday (10 November), further endangering a health system swamped with thousands of casualties and people displaced by Israel's war against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave.

EU membership is strongly supported by an overwhelming 87% of Germans, with most far-right voters also in favour of remaining in the bloc, according to a new poll published on Thursday. With just seven months to go until the European...

Spain’s main opposition parties announced on Thursday that they were preparing massive “civil resistance” actions against the “key-to-rule” deal between the Spanish Socialist Party and Catalan separatists, which includes a controversial amnesty law for those involved in Catalonia’s 2017 separatist...

A global "peace summit" for Ukraine may take place in February 2024, a Kyiv official said amid concerns in the West that the war in Gaza is making it harder to win over diplomatic support for Kyiv's blueprint for peace.

The second interinstitutional negotiation on the Cyber Resilience Act set the framework for a political agreement expected later this month. However, the controversial issue of who should receive sensitive vulnerability information is still to be fully settled.

The Spanish Presidency of the EU Council is leaning towards the exclusion of the financial sector from the EU corporate accountability rules, which are currently under inter-institutional negotiations, according to an internal document seen by Euractiv.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Council on Wednesday (8 November) adopted the new definition of Artificial Intelligence that is set to be incorporated in the EU’s new AI rulebook.

Moldova will continue working together with the EU to keep "cleaning its system from the toxic influence of criminal oligarchs" as part of a concerted push to advance its EU membership bid, the country's Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu told Euractiv.

The production and use of energy account for more than 75% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. This highlights the urgency of reducing carbon emissions in the energy sector, a crucial step in achieving the 2030 climate goals and the...

Germany will not cap power prices for energy-intensive industries but will lower power taxes for businesses to the EU minimum while extending special tariffs for the most energy-hungry companies for five years.

In this edition of EU Politics Decoded, we look at how the new Italy-Albania migration deal highlights the flaws of the EU migration pact.

With the European Commission's enlargement report out, the ball is now in the court of EU leaders to decide how to proceed with the accession process - and their own reform homework.

The European Court of Justice sided on Thursday (9 November) with tech giants TikTok, Meta, and Alphabet’s Google against Austrian online content law regulating how platforms should deal with harmful and illegal content.

In the pursuit of a more sustainable future, we, the European natural mineral waters and soft drinks industries are enhancing our packaging material efficiency, investing in lightweighting solutions and recyclability, and setting up efficient collection and recycling systems, such as Deposit and Return Systems (DRS).

The soldiers piloting Ukraine's fleet of small, cheap assault drones are voicing concerns that, despite pioneering their use, they are now being leapfrogged by their adversary as Moscow pumps money and resources into its drone sector.

Follow Julien Milquet, the Alderman of Anderlecht (Belgium) in charge of international solidarity, to Marsassoum (Senegal), where he is exchanging with his cooperation partner, the charismatic mayor Sény Mandiang. Together, they are meeting with citizens who benefit from the municipal...