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Moscow acknowledged on Friday (12 May) that its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine's battlefield city of Bakhmut after a new Ukrainian offensive, in a retreat that the head of Russia's Wagner private army called a rout.

South African officials on Friday (12 May) hit back at US accusations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town late last year, a move investors fear could lead Washington to impose sanctions.

A network of influential Greek political consultants working for the European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber and boasting impeccable links to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has emerged ahead of next week’s Greek elections. 

There was surprise earlier this year when the Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard – whose government holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU Council - told reporters that trade access and aid could be denied to countries who refuse to cooperate on migrant returns.

The decision to allocate the money to the support package for member states hit by the Ukrainian agriculture influx according to quantitative, rather than qualitative, criteria shows the risk of ‘politicising’ a portion of the EU’s farming subsidies. You’ve probably...

Dozens of Russian nationals continue to work at the Council of Europe more than a year after Russia was expelled, posing a diplomatic headache for the human rights organisation, according to diplomats at the Strasbourg-based body.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “We are on the verge of building a real landmark legislation for the digital landscape, not only for Europe...

The ‘crusade’ against the agricultural elements of the Green Deal by the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) risks upsetting the balance of the established pro-European majority, according to leading liberal MEP Pascal Canfin, who urged the Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to step in. 

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a "regulatory break" on Thursday (11 May) to help industry digest the standards of the European Green Deal, a call that has caused quite a stir among observers and EU politicians.

Sweden's Northvolt said on Friday (12 May) it will invest several billion euros to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Germany, in a win for Europe after speculation that the company could divert planned investment to the United States.

With Spain leading shark fishing and the manufacturing of unprocessed shark fins in Europe, Spanish MEPs took distance from their respective political groups and stood against a citizens’ petition calling for a ban on the trade of fins.

De-risking from China is necessary, but forging green partnerships with other parts of the world is challenging, argues Mats Engström.

Plans for Europe's largest onshore salmon farm in southwest France, viewed as 'absurd and disproportionate' by activists and touted by the company behind the project as a chance to push for EU sovereignty has been put on the radar of the European Commission and Parliament.

The German parliament has decided to launch a panel of randomly selected citizens set to advise lawmakers on food and nutrition policies in an effort to help navigate the thorny issue of the state interfering in dietary choices.

Ukraine's Armed Forces, set to focus on retaking the eastern city of Bakhmut this spring, have altogether lost fewer than 15,000 troops since the Russian invasion began last February, according to excerpts of an internal EU memo seen by EURACTIV.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the United Arab Emirates' clean energy company Masdar have joined forces to create a path to tripling the world's renewable energy capacity by 2030, ahead of the UN's next annual climate conference, COP28.

Germany’s planned ban on new fossil heaters looks set to be defeated by staunch parliament opposition and could take as long as 2030 to come fully into effect. In 2021, the German government agreed to require new heaters to run...

Germany wants to take a leading position in the field of quantum technology and catch up with China and the US. To this end, the government has developed a trading concept that was referred to the lead committee in the Bundestag on Thursday (11 May).

Progress in trilogue negotiations on the political advertising regulation has been slow but the European Commission's new proposal on targeting based on sensitive data is set to further complicate the picture.

The European Parliament voted Thursday (11 May) in support of new rules aimed at improving product durability by combatting greenwashing and misleading claims on consumer labels, such as "CO2 neutral" or "carbon neutral".