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The EU will reveal Wednesday (6 September) which of the world's tech behemoths face stronger curbs from next year under a law that will shake up how major players like Apple and Meta do business online.

Welcome back to EURACTIV's Health Brief. With only a short legislative stretch left, the greatest (or the most controversial) health files remain for the final episodes: pharmaceutical strategy and the European Health Data Space (EHDS). 

As Albanian parliament convened after the summer break, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced a big shakeup with five ministers leaving, seven new appointments, the dissolution of one ministry and the creation of another in one of the largest reshuffles since...

The Slovenian government plans to impose a tax on bank assets as a temporary measure to help finance the reconstruction of Slovenia after the devastating floods in early August. The tax would be levied on 0.2% of the bank’s total...

Romania’s gas transmission system operator Transgaz has announced the acquisition of Gazprom’s operations in Moldova, a strategic move likely to further reduce Chișinău’s dependence on Russian gas.

Reusable packaging options could produce less emissions than single-use for some types of takeaway packaging, as long as collection, return and washing systems are efficient, according to a study published on Tuesday (5 September).

Former prime minister and current Smer candidate Robert Fico has called for a two-week post-election moratorium to ensure coalition talks are held free of media interference, a move  ARTICLE 19 and Reporters Without Borders have criticised for being close to...

The Ukrainian Council of Ministers has banned Ukrainian lawmakers from travelling to Poland amid an ongoing row over grain imports, Onet reported on Tuesday, in a move Ukrainian MPs are calling ‘illegal’. With the EU’s embargo on selected Ukrainian agricultural...

Portugal’s government has changed several temporary schemes to mitigate the rise in energy prices and created financial support for outsourced transport of goods or by rail, it announced on Tuesday. According to a decree-law published in the Diário da República,...

An amnesty law, recognition and respect for the “democratic legitimacy” of Catalonia’s independence movement and the creation of a mechanism to verify future political agreements with Madrid are the red lines set out by separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Tuesday...

EU justice chief Didier Reynders on Tuesday (5 September) said he had been assigned the Commission's competition portfolio following outgoing Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager's announcement that she is officially a candidate for the presidency of the EIB.

The centrist group Renew Europe has accused the European People’s Party (EPP) of cosying up to the far right and warns of growing polarisation in a declaration to be adopted by the party in Vienna on Wednesday. In a declaration...

Nitrous oxide or laughing gas will be categorised as a class C drug and will become illegal by the end of 2023, the UK government announced on Tuesday. The government announced plans to ban nitrous oxide earlier this year as...

France’s radical left-wing La France insoumise has charged MEP Manon Aubry to ‘coordinate’ the European Elections campaign for 2024, aiming to form a single leftist list. “The debate on a joint NUPES [the left-wing coalition in France] list for the...

Aimed for net-zero operations on its launch in 2028 the Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) airport in Poland is on its way to becoming a globally unique transport hub and a global model for sustainable aviation, integrating innovative technologies and sustainable practices.

Belgium has violated the right to a fair trial by allowing a civil case to drag on for seven years, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights said in a press release issued on Tuesday. In 2015, the claimant brought...

Faced with growig criticism from environmentalists, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz defended individual mobility as a great social achievement and called upon carmakers to make electric vehicles available for all.

Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National party are enjoying increased trust and an uptick in image perception, making her the second most popular political figure in the country, according to a poll published on Tuesday. An opinion poll conducted...

Germany’s budget for next year includes spending cuts in all areas except defence in anticipation of growing future debt, the government announced on Tuesday, but critics worry about extra-budgetary ‘special funds’ not counted in the official budget. Fiscal prudence and...

Torrential rains caused massive floods in the Black Sea region of Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in Greece on Tuesday (5 September), making victims in all three countries.