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To fill gaps amid its current labour shortage, Germany intends to attract skilled migrants from Brazil to work in its care sector. As the German population ages, an increasing number of people need old-age and medical care while growing numbers...

The leaders of the EU's military training and advisory missions abroad have been asked to reign in spending to allow the reallocation of some of their budgets to new missions, EURACTIV has learnt.

A day after national elections, Greece on Monday (22 May) was bracing for a new ballot which vote-winner Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' party is poised to seek in order to govern alone.

Over 75,000 Moldovans on Sunday (21 May) rallied in Chișinău in favour of EU membership, with the bid accelerated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and amid fears of Moscow’s increased pressure on the country. Moldova, a former Soviet republic of...

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with India's Narendra Modi on 20 May and was due to meet other "Global South" leaders at a Group of Seven (G7) summit aimed at broadening support for his country in its war against Russia.

At the Competitiveness Council (COMPET) on Monday, France will defend the extension of bans on the destruction of textile products, sectoral targets on critical raw materials, and the full inclusion of nuclear power in the EU's green industry text.

Talks to revise the 20-year-old Energy Taxation Directive are moving at a snail's pace amid resistance from EU countries in a matter that requires unanimity among the 27.

Leaders of the world's richest democracies acted on 19 May to stiffen sanctions against Russia, while a draft communique to be issued after their talks in Hiroshima stressed the need to reduce reliance on trade with China.

The EU must work towards regulation that enables the responsible use of new genomic techniques (NGTs) to innovate the farming sector while remaining centred around the precautionary principle, according to centre-right MEP Norbert Lins.

Should the opposition Labour party win the next UK election, it would take the country back into the EU’s Dublin Agreement, which regulates how countries decide on asylum applications, as part of a series of moves to bring the UK closer to the bloc, though without seeking to rejoin.

It is a truism that a political movement debating its reasons for existing knows it’s in trouble. It’s no surprise that the National Conservatism conference held in London this week coincided with the fourteenth year of a Tory government that looks both incompetent and out of ideas, not to mention nearly twenty points behind in the polls. 

Battling cancer and global health threats are at the heart of the new health-focused collaboration between the EU and the US, according to the EU-US Health Task Force presented on Wednesday (17 May).

The Czech Republic’s Digital and Information Agency (DIA) has set ambitious goals, but there are still obstacles on the road to a fully functioning eGovernment, such as low salaries in the civil service and a lack of experts. The government’s...

A new regulatory framework to increase cybersecurity resilience is falling into place at the EU level, but it risks exposing the growing shortage of cyber-talent in regulators and companies. A number of new regulatory requirements are set to enter into...

The UK has released its National Semiconductor Strategy, setting out the country’s funding plans for the next decade, but critics have slated the announcement as 'too little, too late' compared to those of international counterparts. 

Killing male chicks en masse remains a standard practice in most of the EU. But if we put our detective coats on, we can find many hints that an EU-wide ban could be part of the upcoming revision of the bloc’s animal welfare rules.

A French plane took Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Jeddah on Friday (19 May), where he will to attend an Arab League summit, before going to G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. 

The French Constitutional Council cleared this week the security measures that will likely be implemented for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in France despite them not aligning with the currently under-discussion EU Artificial Intelligence Act.

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