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Hungary has thrown a spanner in the works of swift parliamentary ratification of Sweden's NATO membership, just one day after Ankara sent a glimmer of hope by moving a step closer to green-lighting the membership.

In a plea to coalition partners and the European Commission, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) called for more subsidies to secure industrial production and jobs.

The European Parliament's Environment and Health Committee (ENVI) adopted on Tuesday (24 October) with a large majority the final agreement on the regulation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA)'s fee system, paving the way for the endorsement in the plenary. 

As Fridays For Future gets bogged down in the latest Middle East conflict, supporters who marched along to the tune of climate action should begin to look elsewhere: The group is becoming unfit to provide the impulse necessary for the 2020s.

As the EU's electricity market reform enters its final phase of negotiations, the French French energy industry association reveals its recommendations in an exclusive interview with Euractiv France, the first of which is the need to prioritise private party contracting.

During a visit it to Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron floated the idea of a coalition to fight Hamas modelled on the one that already exists against Daesh, a radical Muslim organisation that says it represents the Islamic State in the Middle East.

A political firestorm is sweeping through Irish healthcare after Ireland’s government unveiled what it called a “substantial” €22.5 billion health budget for 2024, which some stakeholders have called insufficient and "a missed opportunity".

The European Commission has put forward a package of non-binding measures designed to aid the bloc’s beleaguered wind turbine makers, who are under pressure from cheaper competitors abroad.

The agriculture ministers of the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium have called on pharmaceutical companies to quickly develop a new vaccine amid an ongoing outbreak of bluetongue disease feared to hit sheep and cattle exports.

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted Tuesday (24 October) to support Commission targets to reduce the carbon footprint of heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs), making it a near certainty that clean trucks will make up the majority of new HDVs post-2040.

EU Specialty Food Ingredients emphasises that even with the current European Commission not proposing a Framework for Sustainable Food Systems, the food industry continues on its path towards building more sustainable and resilient food systems.

Most of the country's EU neighbours have reimposed border controls with Hungary -- with both Slovakia and Slovenia taking the exceptional measure in the last 10 days -- as the number of migrants passing through the country has risen sharply.

Natalizumab, the world's first biosimilar drug for multiple sclerosis, produced in Poland, has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), adding to the biosimilar legacy that Warsaw seems to be building in the hope of improving the Polish economy, but also patients’ lives across Europe.

The sale of antibiotics in Bulgaria fell sharply by nearly 35% immediately after the introduction of digital prescriptions, which led to greater control over the sale of these drugs, Deputy Minister of Health, Ilko Getov, said.

World fossil fuel demand is set to peak by 2030 as more electric cars hit the road and China's economy grows more slowly and shifts towards cleaner energy, the IEA said, undercutting the rationale for any rise in investment.

A recent analysis suggests that the EU’s carbon market for road transport and buildings (ETS 2) may see prices rise far above the €45 promised by the EU, provoking fears that protests against fuel price hikes will follow.

Tens of thousands of Icelandic women, including the prime minister, held a strike from paid and unpaid jobs on Tuesday (23 October) in a protest against gender inequality, according to labour unions.

With expenditure on cancer medication in the Netherlands reaching record levels, organisations are calling for more research to ensure the drugs are used sustainably and for EU member states to keep pace with established plans to ensure their citizens don’t get left behind.

Russian forces on Monday (23 October) pressed their attacks on two frontline areas of eastern Ukraine, seeking to sever the sole supply route into the devastated city of Avdiivka and advance on the key town of Kupiansk farther north.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about France calling for a ‘humanitarian truce’ ahead of Macron's Israel trip, Kurti accusing the Serbian defence minister of his involvement in the attack and calling for a special court, and so much more.