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This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team talks you through the leaked draft of one of the most contentious proposals from the European Commission in the past months: gene editing. EURACTIV’s Paula Andres talks to Mette Uldahl, Vice President of the Federation...

The three Kosovo police officers detained by Serbian authorities in Kosovo will not escape without charge, said President Aleksandar Vucic amid growing calls from the international community to release. According to Kosovo authorities, the police officers were near an illegal...

A citizen in the Medvegja region of southern Serbia, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Albanians, has reported an attempt to illegally seize their property and transfer it to a Serbian owner amid ongoing challenges relating to the removal of Albanians from...

The mining industry has failed to earn the broad-based trust of society. Changing that is first and foremost the industry’s responsibility but it is in everyone’s interest to see that happen because the success of the energy transition depends on it, writes Rohitesh Dhawan.

The anti-government “Serbia against violence” protests, ongoing for two months since violent shootings shocked the country, expanded to 10 other cities over the weekend and show no sign of stopping. Major roads were blocked in the cities of Belgrade, Novi...

The number of births in Slovenia has been declining in the past five years as its fertility rate fell to 1.55 in 2022 compared to 1.64 the year before, the latest Statistics Office data show. Slovenia’s fertility rate has been...

Burnout impacts Romanian doctors, with 36% of them in a state of high or very high burnout and those most at risk being women and young doctors, while 58% say they are physically exhausted, the largest survey made by the...

European Conservatives hope that there will be a right-wing majority in the next European Parliament, Nicola Procaccini, the co-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group at the European Parliament, told EURACTIV in a video interview.  Looking ahead to...

The EU needs to accelerate the implementation of the European Green Deal if it is to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, according to a new flagship report released on Monday (26 June).

The clock of industrial energy consumers is ticking. The EU manufacturing cannot wait longer before reaping off the benefits of renewables. If we are to enable the net-zero economy, we need a bridge solution for the transition.

Slovakia’s Finance Ministry is worried about the European Commission’s proposal to revise the EU budget with an extra €68.5 billion for the 2021-2027 period, wondering why there is a need to replenish migration reserves with an additional €15 billion. Last...

The opposition in Poland has criticised the PiS-led government for its inadequate reaction to the coup attempt orchestrated by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner soldiers against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The recent developments in Russia, where a powerful mercenary group...

Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters surged most of the way to Moscow before their leader said they had agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed. Here is a timeline of events as they have unfolded over the last 24 hours.

Spain has already entered a heated pre-election campaign where the two main rival parties, Partido Popular (PP/EPP) and the Socialist Party (PSOE/S&D), are launching messages aimed at the ‘heart’ of voters, appealing to their deep feelings and emotions. One of...

Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is set to travel to Brussels on Monday (26 June) in a bid to bolster ties with the EU, in his first foreign trip since succeeding Nicola Sturgeon in March.

Just 6% of citizens believe the UK’s political system does not need reforming, while 89% support constitutional reform, according to a report published by Focaldata and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank over the weekend. According to the...

Europe was wrong to scale down its defence capabilities in the years and decades preceding the Ukraine war, Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) said during a speech on Veteran’s Day on Saturday. Rutte held his speech in front of Dutch...

An attempted coup d’etat on the Kremlin on Saturday triggered an emergency response in Vienna, where top politicians came together on Sunday for a crisis sit-down to tackle the consequences for both Austria and Vienna. Russia’s “nuclear weapons must not...

Interior and Overseas Territories Minister Gérald Darmanin said the number of incoming migrants has dropped by two-thirds, and violence has been reduced, according to his initial assessment of recent measures in Mayotte, the French archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The...

Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis won Greece's national elections on Sunday (25 June) with a clear majority, securing a second term during which he vowed to bring about major reforms to transform the country.