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This week, EURACTIV’s health team dives into how endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) can affect children, especially in their most important developmental years. They talk with Doctor Anders Juul, a paediatric endocrinologist at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen. He explains how children are exposed...

As the EU Commission is preparing its own economic security strategy, Japan has started to implement its own economic security policies, walking the increasingly tense tightrope between China and the US.

Member states must look to financing options other than public debt and taxation to support the green transition and free themselves from debt repayments, French financial economist Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran told EURACTIV France in an interview.

The EU Nature Restoration Law will face its biggest challenge to date on Thursday (15 June) as the largest group in the European Parliament continues its push to overturn it.

A majority of EU countries look to slash a proposed text on ramping up ammunition production in the bloc, accusing the European Commission to take advantage of the emergency situation to usurp their powers, several EU diplomats told EURACTIV.

Romanian oil and gas group OMV Petrom, majority-controlled by Austria's OMV, said on Tuesday (13 June) it discovered new crude oil and natural gas deposits equal to about three quarters of its overall 2022 production.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Macron announcing a boost in domestic drug production, Slovakia's caretaker government opening the abortion pill debate, and so much more.

The atmosphere in Serbia after two mass shootings and femicides – with 19 women murdered since the start of the year – has been worsened by the media because of their lack of professionalism, publishing inappropriate and disturbing articles to...

Tensions flared again on Tuesday following the arrest of an individual suspected of attacking police in the north of the country as ethnic Serbs attacked Kosovo police with stones, while Prime Minister Albin Kurti called for the rule of law...

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said he had not read the draft for establishing the Association of Serb Municipalities presented to France, Germany, the EU and the US last Thursday by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, instead suggesting he present...

President Klaus Iohannis nominated on Tuesday, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Marcel Ciolacu, as the candidate for the office of prime minister, inviting him to create a new government. After consultations with the parliamentary parties, Iohannis invited...

The Co-Chairman of the Association of Bulgarians in the Republic of North Macedonia (RSM), “Shemeto” Bekir Kadrieski, was beaten by a stranger – who kept calling him a ‘dirty Bulgarian’ during the beating – in the city of Struga, he...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday (13 June) he backed a Defence Ministry order for mercenary groups fighting in Ukraine to sign contracts with it before 1 July, something the high-profile Wagner Group has pointedly refused to do.

A murder in Czechia – with sources alleging that the murderer was Ukrainian – has sparked tensions between the Ukrainian and Romani communities, while nationalists aim to capitalise on the tragedy. A 23-year-old man was murdered in the Czech city...

After years of attempts to restrict reproductive rights in Slovakia – where the only legal way of accessing abortion is surgery under anaesthesia – the caretaker government is now considering abortion pills. The government is considering medical abortions, a safe...

The centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP) will rule together with the far-right VOX party (ECR) in the Valencia region in a political coalition that foresees a decisive role in the local executive for the extreme right formation, the two coalition partners...

The Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) allegedly told the CIA that Ukraine planned to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022, just days after Belgian media reported the CIA told their secret services that Ukraine was behind it.

One year before the EU elections, Europe Elects’s projection shows that the informal coalition of centre-right EPP, centre-left S&D, and liberal Renew Europe will continue to hold a majority in the EU parliament. However, this majority is set to shrink:...

Lawmakers are planning a makeover of the European Parliament premises in Brussels that will cost up to €490 million and leave the assembly’s plenary chamber out of action for 18 months, according to an internal Parliament document seen by EURACTIV.

Border controls must be kept at the Austrian-Slovenian border given the heavy migratory pressure from Slovenia, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer told his Slovenian counterpart Robert Golob in Vienna on Tuesday, adding that discussion about lifting controls is possible if pressure...