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Agustín Santos Maraver, Spain’s ambassador to the UN in New York, will accompany Yolanda Díaz, Labour Minister and presidential candidate of the new progressive platform Sumar, into the election campaign and feature second on the platform’s joint list, Díaz confirmed...

Ukraine said on Monday (12 June) its troops had recaptured seven villages from Russian forces along an approximately 100-km front in the southeast since starting its long-anticipated counteroffensive last week.

MEPs on Monday voted to create 11 extra seats in the European Parliament while also saving 28 for the potential creation of a transnational constituency ahead of the 2024 EU elections. If the draft report, which was approved by the...

With the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) now working its way through the European institutions, Europe has the chance to create a truly circular economy for packaging. One that contributes to the EU Commission vision of a carbon neutral continent by 2050.

Europe should be warier of China as it shifts from softer forms of communication to more aggressive ones that may soon include influencing elections, experts from the Central European Digital Media Observatory (CEDMO) warned one year before the EU elections....

The death of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has unsettled Italian politics, as the future of Forza Italia is now uncertain, and centre-right voters could migrate to conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Professor Lorenzo Castellani told EURACTIV Italy. Forza...

There is strong support for Sweden to join the NATO Alliance in July, said Swedish Defence Minister Pål Jonson as negotiations between both countries are set to pick up again on Wednesday, a few days after Sweden extradited a PKK...

Germany’s ruling Social Democrats and the Greens are now placing their hopes on upcoming negotiations with the European Parliament to soften the position on the EU Migration Deal reached by EU member states last week, as Germany’s push was not...

Before the COP28 climate conference in December, the results of a two-year assessment of global efforts to meet the Paris targets, known as the Global Stocktake (GST), will be published. It is likely to show that we are falling short...

The no-confidence motion tabled by the left against the French government failed to pass on Monday (12 June), although criticism of the separation of powers and rumours of a possible reshuffle persist.

Is Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the powerful Wagner group, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s best friend or worst enemy? One thing is sure: Even Kremlinologists are struggling to answer this question.

Building data skills and literacy will be crucial for bridging the largely North-South divide within the EU regarding data market value, according to stakeholders.

As the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) leads the polls in Eastern Germany, business and government representatives warn that a rise in xenophobia could endanger the region's position in the global fight for talent.

The European Commission will invest €100 million in anti-smuggling activities, border management, search and rescue operation, and migrant returns to Tunisia as part of a €1 billion investment plan.

Indonesia and Malaysia have accused the EU’s anti-deforestation law of unfairly penalising small farmers, arguing that the regulation's complex requirements will financially strain those least able to afford it - allegations the European Commission has rejected.

A new compromise text by the Swedish EU Council presidency on the legislative proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online makes significant amendments to the entire text, including the scope, labelling, and the planned new EU Centre.

The European Commission is currently reviewing the EU’s animal welfare legislation, which is being undertaken within the framework of the EU’s flagship food policy, the Farm to Fork strategy. In doing so, the EU executive aims to align an almost...

The ‘moral choice’ of decoupling animal welfare standards from productivity is the biggest question right now, according to the Commission’s head of animal welfare. And while stakeholders say they are willing, they say they need more funds to do so.

EU labour ministers endorsed a general approach to the Platform Workers Directive on Monday (12 June), marking the close of a year and a half’s worth of intense negotiations and opening the door to interinstitutional negotiations with the Commission and the European Parliament.

The European Commission approved French multimedia conglomerate Vivendi's acquisition of publisher Lagardère, with some conditions to prevent market concentration.