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The production of non-alcoholic beer in Germany almost doubled over the last decade, according to new data published on the occasion of this week’s world beer day, while alcoholic beer consumption has seen a slight downward trend.

The general supply of uranium to France, a key raw material in nuclear fission, is not at risk, nuclear conglomerate Orano said, after Nigerien authorities announced they would freeze French exports.

Berlin has been making “good progress” in its talks with the European Commission on the potential scope of national subsidies for hydrogen power plants, according to German Economy and Energy Minister Robert Habeck.

Forming a government in Spain amidst complex negotiations and a polarised political landscape poses a challenging task, with the potential for repeat elections - there is a need for vigilance, as Vox poses a severe threat to Spanish democracy, writes Laura Gaspar.

With less than one year to go until next June’s European elections, the EU institutions and member states are facing a race against time to conclude negotiations on a raft of key laws before the pre-election purdah period starts next spring.  

After a period of calm following the Coronavirus pandemic, discussions on EU public finances are back on the table and are expected to liven up the last months of 2023, with heated debates over EU and national budgets.

A coalition of Belarusian investigative journalists based abroad has identified officials cooperating with the Russian authorities in children’s abductions from the occupied territories of Ukraine and their indoctrination.

The United States on Monday (31 July) imposed sanctions against four top Bosnian Serb officials, including the Serb member of the country's presidency, for undermining a US-sponsored peace deal that ended the Balkan country's war in the 1990s.

Economic sanctions have been the biggest headache for Russia's business elite since the start of the war in Ukraine, but a drone strike in the heart of Moscow's financial district is forcing companies to think about their employees' safety.

The junta that seized power in Niger last week detained senior politicians on Monday (31 July), their party said, defying international calls to restore democratic rule, while fellow military rulers in West Africa expressed their support.

Troops at the spearhead of Ukraine's counteroffensive say a battle last week along the front in the southeast proved to be tougher and bloodier than expected, with plans going awry and an enemy that was well-prepared.

Thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets on Monday (31 July) to protest violence against women after a harrowing case of a teen cut hundreds of times shocked the Balkan nation.

The Niger coup marks the end of a largely-failed French military ‘Barkhane’ operation in the Sahel, broadly due to a lack of resources, and an underlying sense of neocolonialism, according to experts EURACTIV spoke with.

Bulgaria benefits from an EU derogation allowing it to import Russian oil for its only refinery owned by Lukoil. However, the financial and political interests served by this derogation are not those of Bulgarian consumers, but those of Lukoil and the Kremlin, write Martin Vladimirov and Ruslan Stefanov.

The EU and the Philippines will restart negotiations on a free-trade agreement as they seek to accelerate "a new era of cooperation", European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday (31 July).

Eurozone inflation fell further in July and most measures of underlying price growth also eased, in a largely comforting sign for the European Central Bank (ECB) as it considers ending its severe run of interest rate hikes.

With its so-called Bidenomics, the US is leading the way in linking subsidies to social conditionalities, an approach that the EU has both criticised due to its impacts on competition and been reluctant to integrate into its industrial policy.

German far-right party AfD has decided on a hardliner advocating for a “Europe of nation states” as their lead candidate for the upcoming EU elections. Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether the party will push for Germany to exit the EU.

July 2023 has broken multiple temperature records and is expected to be the hottest month ever recorded, according to the UN's World Meteorological Organisation and EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Fabio Mauri, the man behind DG MEME, a popular Twitter account with 100,000 followers poking fun at EU politics and policy-making, told EURACTIV that he is regarded as a "troublemaker" by European Commission's top management but that this does not put him off.