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Italy’s ruling right-wing political parties – Fratelli d’Italia (ECR), Forza Italia (EPP), Lega (ID) – will not present a joint list of candidates for the 2024 European elections, even though this may have helped tip the balance in their favour....

Boyko Borissov, the leader of Bulgaria’s largest political party who often presents himself as the country’s most pro-Western politician, confused supporters by first encouraging them to vote for pro-Russian Vanya Grigorova for the mayorship of Sofia before telling them to...

Poles believe President Andrzej Duda should nominate Donald Tusk as the next prime minister, according to a poll published in Polish media on Tuesday, as the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS, ECR) appears to be running out of options...

Germany is looking to outsource the processing of asylum applications to Africa amid pressure from liberal junior coalition member FDP and a general rise in asylum applications, in a move similar to the UK’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers...

Ukraine's attacks on the Russian Navy in the Black Sea have crippled Moscow's war efforts, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday (31 October), seeking to rally his troops even as the outside world expects instant successes.

Cyprus said Tuesday (31 October) it was intensifying efforts to get concrete support to open a maritime corridor for the delivery of aid to war-torn Gaza from the eastern Mediterranean island.

The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell on Tuesday (31 October) renewed calls for a pause in the Israel-Hamas conflict and condemned attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Nude deepfakes, including those of minors, are becoming increasingly common online as the tools to create them become more accessible, experts warn - yet the law is still behind in regulating such material.

US cloud service Oracle advertised that the European Commission decided to include Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services into its offerings, raising consistency questions with its proposed cloud security schemes.

England may be out of the EU, but English has not gone anywhere. If anything, its position as the first language in Brussels is more entrenched than ever. This has long been a sore point for some French officials. 

EURACTIV visited Sébastien Geens who, together with his brother, has taken over his mixed crop-livestock family farm in Villers-lez-Heest, a small village outside the Belgian town of Namur, to hear his thoughts about the future of farming.

As the largest Central Asian nation, situated on the fringes of the Russian and Chinese worlds but resolutely oriented towards the EU, Kazakhstan is performing a strategic balancing act to maintain its stability and position in the heart of Eurasia.

German trade unions are insisting on subsidies for energy-intensive industries in Germany, while the government and business representatives are split.

Healthcare experts in Poland have issued recommendations to the government calling for specific measures to both increase drug security and give domestic production a boost.

EU institutions are preparing for confrontation over the functioning of the legal presumption of employment, the most sensitive aspect of the Platform Workers Directive, in a trilogue next Thursday (9 November).

Bulgaria's strategy for children's health care is based on wrong data on obesity, which means that the state has no way to foresee adequate measures to solve the problem, doctors have signalled to Euractiv.

After weeks of negotiations, Montenegro's parliament on Tuesday (31 October) appointed a new government, a coalition of pro-European and pro-Serb parties expected to lead the small Balkan country in its bid to join the European Union.

Britain has announced its backing for a moratorium on commercial deep-sea mining, after criticism from scientists, MPs and environmentalists of its previous stance in support of the emerging industry. Euractiv's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

To help prevent greenwashing, the European Parliament’s environment committee agreed new rules last week on the certification framework for carbon removals - a move it says will boost the EU’s capacity to quantify, monitor and verify carbon capture.

The next international climate conference, COP28, needs to lead to concrete pledges to peak global emissions and stop building new coal power plants, according to Spanish deputy prime minister Teresa Ribera, who will represent the EU 27 at the summit.