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Germany’s plans to legalise cannabis are partially incompatible with EU law, despite significant changes Berlin already made to avoid legal problems, according to a study from the parliamentary research service.

The European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has launched an investigation into Frontex’s role in search and rescue operations at sea, in a bid to shine a light on the EU border agency's response to a series of major shipwrecks in 2023.

While the EU is finalising new cybersecurity legislation to force vendors and service providers to provide security updates throughout a product’s lifetime, leading tech companies are getting a head start. The Network Resilience Coalition was announced on Tuesday (25 July)...

Europe could be the first victim of the recent surge of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which stands to benefit the most from the dissatisfaction with the current coalition government in Berlin and could shake up next year's European elections.

A first discussion about new genomic techniques saw many EU agriculture ministers welcome the European Commission’s proposed loosening of the bloc’s gene editing rules as a building block for sustainable farming, while others voiced concerns over potential risks.

Germany’s updated hydrogen strategy, unveiled on Wednesday (26 July) places heavy emphasis on imports from Denmark and Norway while securing "blue hydrogen" production from fossil gas using CCS technology to mitigate the related emissions.

Romania’s rising far-right AUR party wants to use next year's EU elections to reform the EU institutions and boost a right-wing coalition led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s ‘political model’, AUR President George Simion told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview. 

The European Commission opened on Tuesday (25 July) a formal investigation into French multimedia conglomerate Vivendi’s acquisition of publisher Lagardère over fears that the deal was implemented before the EU authority's green light.

Poland is prepared to introduce its own unilateral ban on agricultural products imported from Ukraine if the EU decides against extending the protective measures already in place, the Polish agricultural minister told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview. 

The EU’s ‘solidarity lanes’ initiative to help Ukraine export grain via European routes and ports could entirely replace the Black Sea route become impractical after Russia's unilateral withdrawal from a UN-brokered deal, according to the bloc's agriculture chief.

The European Commission is in the process of considering whether to grant further farming exemptions from environmental measures following requests from member states, although it does not yet have a clear idea about the impact of previous derogations on food security. 

France was again snubbed from a meeting of the "friends of renewables" group of EU countries earlier this month – this time on the pretext that only "like-minded" countries could participate, writes Paul Messad.

Welcome to our last Health Brief before the holidays! We have prepared a summer holiday special for a carefree healthy summer! See you all in September in a new format!  While Roy Ayers rightly sang that “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,”...

Eighteen Ukrainian climate organisations have called on the European Commission on Tuesday (25 July) to ban imports of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) and petroleum gas (LPG) in a bid to slash the country’s revenues from continued fossil fuel exports.

This week EURACTIV’s health reporter Marta Iraola talks to Emilie Karafillakis, the European research lead at the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, about vaccine confidence in Europe, about why people lack trust in vaccination...

The European Union could stand to lose two of its most effective climate change negotiators ahead of this year's COP28 UN summit, with the possible departures of the EU's own green policy chief and Spain's climate minister.

An efficient Energy Performance of Buildings Directive must look out for the reduction of ‘whole life carbon emissions’ in order to achieve Europe's climate goals, writes Zsolt Toth. 

China's foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from office on Tuesday (25 July), state media reported, after disappearing from the public eye for a month with little explanation from the ruling Communist Party.

A Brussels court on Tuesday (25 July) convicted French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini for 2016 jihadist bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people, after the country's largest-ever criminal trial.

Western nations fear an economic collapse in Tunisia could trigger even greater migrant flows and have offered financial assistance. Yet prospects of Tunisia's sealing the biggest deal of all -- a $1.9-billion bailout from the IMF -- seem increasingly remote.