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The European Commission will provide a further €100 million support package to five EU 'frontline' countries in an attempt to alleviate pressure on their farmers, hit by an influx of agricultural goods from Ukraine.

The European Commission’s recommendation to fight online piracy of live events focuses on the effective handling of take-down requests, dynamic injunctions, and voluntary cooperation. Still, rightsholders have found its relaxed revision time disappointing.

With global food security under strain, millets - one of the oldest cereals known to human civilisation - could help fight the food and climate crisis.

The European Commission on Tuesday (18 April) proposed an update to the EU's bank crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) framework.

Few topics in European politics are as unsexy as EU treaty reform. Yet two years ago, it was briefly back in fashion. A majority of national governments, including Germany and France, the EU’s engine room, gave their backing for treaty reform. Emmanuel Macron, then still something of a European poster boy, was the main cheerleader. 

The EU's current deputy director general for the European Commission’s enlargement negotiations, Katarina Mathernová is set to become the bloc's new ambassador to Kyiv, according to an internal note on appointments by the EU's diplomatic service (EEAS), seen by EURACTIV.

As the European Parliament’s published its draft report on the proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the rapporteur shared with EURACTIV his vision about the key aspects of the file. Javier Zarzalejos is an influential voice inside European...

A political deal paving the way for the formal adoption of the Chips Act was struck at a negotiation session between the EU’s main institutions on Tuesday (18 April). The European Commission proposed the Chips Act in February 2022 during...

Thousands of residents fled Sudan's capital Wednesday (19 April) as fighting between the army and paramilitaries -- which has killed around 200 people -- raged for a fifth day after a 24-hour truce collapsed.

The German government has adopted a law that would see new fossil heating installations banned from 2024, following a month-long row over the level of state support and pushback from business-friendly FDP lawmakers.

The Council's latest draft of the EU anti-SLAPP directive is significantly watered down and does not go far enough to protect journalists from lawsuits designed to harass and intimidate them, director of Article 19 Europe Sarah Clarke told EURACTIV in an interview.

With its new packaging rules, the EU aims to curtail exponentially-growing waste. But for the food sector, the proposal has unintended ramifications that have so far stayed under the radar, lawmaker Ulrike Müller warned.

As European healthcare workers have launched a wave of strikes in recent months, Green lawmakers in the European Parliament have warned about the shortage of healthcare professionals across Europe in a letter to EU leaders. Healthcare workers in several European...

Patent licensing enables companies to share innovation and collaborate to drive future opportunities together. Find out more at nokia.com/inventions

France's embattled leader Emmanuel Macron has announced a new large-scale labour reform, hoping to revive his political standing with a new “life-at-work pact”  in the wake of a pension reform crisis that angered the nation and marred his second presidential mandate.

EU lawmakers in the European Parliament are considering opening the doors of a coordination body tasked with implementing the new EU rules on human-origin substances to private companies and civil society, according to a preparatory document obtained by EURACTIV.

This week, EURACTIV’s journalist Marta Iraola talks about the movie ‘The Whale’  with Jacqueline Bowman-Busato, head of policy at the European Association for the Study of Obesity. They focus on the controversies it has aroused and the reception among the...

Regulatory compliance, the disruption of Artificial Intelligence and international competition are just some issues regarding the lack of cyber skills in Europe and beyond. Cybersecurity is an increasingly horizontal and urgent topic for policymakers, public authorities and industry practitioners in...

The European Commission launched Cybersecurity Skills Academy on Tuesday (18 April) to close the cybersecurity sector's ongoing skills shortage and develop the EU's cyber resilience.

When EU legislators reached agreement on the renewable energy directive on 30 March, they didn’t just close a key chapter of the European Green Deal, they may also have reached the end of an era of ever-higher EU renewables targets.