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Far-right parties, Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and Trikolora are joining forces either as a coalition or ‘other form of cooperation entities’ ahead of the 2024 European elections, to attract all conservative and patriotic voters. In the memorandum signed last...

Partido Popular (PP/EPP) leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has changed his narrative as the centre-right formation has signed pacts with the far-right Vox (ECR) in several regions, implicitly accepting its radical political principles, which include setbacks in women’s rights and social...

French and German Interior Ministers Gérald Darmanin and Nancy Faeser arrived in Tunisia on Sunday to strengthen security cooperation and tackle illegal immigration, with announcements on these issues expected soon. Darmanin and Faeser want to deepen security cooperation with Tunisia,...

The new right-wing government of the National Coalition Party, the Finns Party, the Swedish People’s Party and the Christian Democrats announced, after seven weeks of negotiations, its 250-page programme, where seven pages are specifically dedicated to the future of the...

In this week’s edition: Road to Vilnius, European defence industry up in arms and more.

Serbians paraded life-size figures of leading government figures in prison jumpsuits on Saturday (17 June) during a seventh week of protests since two mass shootings triggered nationwide protests.

Vladimir Putin on 17 June gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv.

Putin said on 16 June that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

Temperatures in Europe are heating up, and so is a contention that has now spread from Spain to Germany. At the heart of the squabble is a fruit you might be snacking on as you enjoy the sun: strawberries.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday (16 June) announced €500 million in public investment into the French aviation industry to help the EU meet its aviation decarbonisation targets for 2030 and 2050.

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire warned that uniformly and automatically applied numerical targets embedded in the current fiscal rules had led to recessions in the past and should not be included in the EU's reform of the rules.

A delegation of African leaders began a peace mission in Kyiv on Friday (16 June), undeterred by what Ukraine said was a volley of Russian missiles intended to greet them in the capital.

This week’s United Nations climate talks in Bonn confirmed a familiar pattern. Glacial progress on climate finance meant that little headway was made on adaptation and loss and damage.  The perception will persist among the leaders of the Global South...

As an outcome of the 4th Railway Package, the authorisation process for rail vehicles is harmonized across Europe, accessible, transparent, and predictable. An institutional locomotive that takes us every day closer to a railway system without frontiers. Josef Doppelbauer is...

Top executives of the American chipmaker Intel and the Polish government announced a €4.2 billion investment in the Lower Silesian region on Friday (16 June) following last year’s launch of a massive investment plan spanning Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy and...

There is growing concern in Brussels that national governments are too slow in excluding Chinese components, with the German government being particularly hesitant on the issue.

How to make the target to slash in half the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030 a reality?

There are plenty of promising innovations which could help dramatically lower the use of pesticides, but these remain stuck in the pipeline, hampered by maladapted regulation and low confidence levels, scientists from leading research centre Rothamsted told EURACTIV.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “Is this the right time to regulate AI? My answer is resolutely yes.” -Dragoș Tudorache, European Parliament’s co-rapporteur on...

Having significantly reduced its dependence on Russian energy, the EU must now instigate a full embargo on Russian gas, rendering transit via Ukraine unnecessary, writes Sergiy Makogon.