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Without Nokia’s patented inventions – and other contributions to open standards by other inventors – making a mobile phone call or streaming videos would not be possible. A connected car would not be able to give the driver up-to-date traffic information. Remote healthcare or remote learning would not be possible. Find out more at https://nokia.ly/43VdoKU 

As climate change leads to higher average temperatures and more erratic rainfall, Europe is predicted to experience an increase in the scale and duration of its wildfires.

The European Commission identified on Tuesday (25 April) 19 online platforms and search engines that must comply with its more rigorous rules for digital services. The EU has recently adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA), a flagship regulation introducing responsibilities...

ReFuelEU Aviation, the EU's law to compel aircraft refuelling in the bloc to uplift a gradually increasing percentage of green jet fuel, was due to be agreed last December. This evening, negotiations will resume on the file.

The legal affairs committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of a common position on EU rules to hold companies accountable for human rights and environmental breaches on Tuesday (25 April), paving the way for a final plenary vote on 1 June.

In an interview with EuroEFE, Regueiro recalls that multiple myeloma, an incurable form of plasma cell cancer, can have continuous relapses.

Green and centre-right EU lawmakers raised concerns - for opposing reasons - on whether the animal welfare rules revision will be presented before this legislative mandate ends, while the EU executive stressed it is still planned for this year.

After lengthy delays, the UK has on Tuesday (25 April) finally introduced the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill, which will empower the country’s regulator to oversee the position of major tech firms.

Schemes in Belarus to evade EU sanctions are often astonishing, but as the Belarusian Investigative Centre (BIC) reveals, this is the first time when one of them involves the country's Catholic Church. 

Seven companies in Germany's energy sector said on Tuesday (25 April) that they had formed an alliance to bring clean hydrogen from the seashore to centres of industrial consumption.

The EU's 27 member countries gave final approval Tuesday (25 April) to a sweeping reform of the bloc's carbon market to accelerate the reduction in greenhouse gases, including a new carbon border tax on imports.

Joe Biden said on 25 April he will seek a second White House term in 2024, a decision that will test whether Americans are ready to give the 80-year-old Democrat, already the oldest US president ever, another four years in office.

Power network operators are calling for greater transparency regarding electric cars and heat pumps connected to the grid in order to reinforce the EU’s network where necessary and tap into the potential of energy savings from households.

France’s anti-waste law, enacted in 2020, aims to phase out single-use plastic packaging by 2040, eliminate waste and encourage reuse. Three years later, EURACTIV takes a first look at whether the legislation was a success or not.

Five EU ‘frontline’ countries have joined forces to push the Commission for more support following their unilateral decisions to ban all Ukrainian agriculture imports, as the war-torn country warned exports are the only way for their farmers to survive.

The Lithuanian parliament Seimas adopted a law on Tuesday (25 April) legalising the turning away of irregular migrants at the border under a state-level extreme situation regime or a state of emergency.

How to overcome Europe’s gas supply crisis? And how to make decarbonisation happen? Discuss the short, mid, and long term perspectives with 300 high-level energy leaders from the EU institutions, NGOs, academic and gas infrastructure, wind, electricity sectors.

Seen from Berlin, the European Media Freedom Act currently under negotiation doesn’t need to give the Commission any authority on media regulation, but countries in Eastern Europe and EU hopefuls in the Balkans want a legislation with teeth, writes Antoinette Nikolova.

In the context of the H2020 project DEMOTEC, rewatch this EURACTIV Virtual Conference to learn the potential of participatory budgeting in the national context and at EU level. How effective are projects in fostering civic engagement and countering the democratic deficit and citizen dissatisfaction? How can participatory budgeting be inclusive for all? This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no 962553. This website reflects only the author’s view and the Research Executive Agency or European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

Nine European countries signed the Ostend Declaration on Monday (24 April), aiming to jointly produce at least 120 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 and at least 300 gigawatts by 2050 in the North Sea.