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Sudan's battling factions both claimed to have made gains on Monday (17 April) as violence cut power and water in the capital, and the UN envoy to Sudan said the two sides showed no signs of being willing to negotiate.

The imam of a mosque in the Albanian capital of Tirana has been banned from entering North Macedonia, sparking strong reactions from the Albanian Muslim community. Ahmed Kalaja is the head of one of the city’s prominent mosques but was...

Exempting e-fuels from the EU’s combustion engine ban following Germany’s push to do so is puzzling, according to League MP Luca Toccalini (ID), pointing to the Commission rejecting Italy’s demand to exempt biofuels which then led to Rome’s abstention from...

The US has become Finland’s largest trading partner, outpacing Sweden as the traditional number one, as Finland recently joining NATO is believed to give trade relations an added boost, a report released by Amcham Finland reads. The report was drafted...

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel received the country’s highest order of merit, but not everyone thought the honour was justified, including high-ranking members of her own conservative CDU party. Merkel, who was German chancellor for 16 years until the most recent...

G7 foreign ministers warned Tuesday (18 April) that those helping Russia wage war in Ukraine would face "severe costs", as they offered a united front on another key policy challenge: China.

The UK government has launched its own domestic alternative to the Horizon Europe research and development programme despite receiving assurances from the European Commission that it will not be required to pay for the two years it has been locked out from the scheme. 

Greater environmental protection has long been the EU's stated goal for implementing agricultural subsidies. However, such ambitions have not delivered the desired environmental impact, two researchers have argued.

The European Commission has announced it is considering a further support package for EU farmers hit by an influx of Ukrainian agricultural products, following Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia’s decision to ban the import of agricultural goods from Ukraine.

Russia's brutal aggression against Ukraine, their Slav and Orthodox neighbour, is possibly only a symptom of a bigger illness. The Russian nation, the centre of a vast empire spanning Eurasia, is self-destructing to an extent unseen in modern history.

India and Russia are discussing a free trade agreement (FTA), the Russian trade minister said on Monday (17 April), an announcement that could deepen bilateral commercial ties that have flourished since war broke out in Ukraine.

The European Parliament’s co-rapporteur for the revised directive on product liability published their draft report on Friday (14 April), proposing a significant tone-down of the new legislation. The new Product Liability Directive (PLD) intends to update the current legislative framework...

The European Union on Monday (17 April) condemned Russia's sentencing of opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in jail on "politically motivated charges".

The French Greens in the European Parliament are expected to reject the proposed extension of the EU's carbon market to transport and heating fuels when the matter comes to a vote in Strasbourg on Tuesday (18 April).

The European Parliament could accelerate the interinstitutional negotiation process over the €500 million fund for joint procurement of defence equipment (EDIRPA), several people involved in the talks told EURACTIV.

EU negotiations on the final shape of the rules that govern construction product trade in the bloc are drawing to a close, following years of intensive industry lobbying set against a push to boost the rules’ sustainability. 

Ukraine and NATO need a new concept of relations and Ukraine's path to membership, which the Vilnius Summit in July should establish. Diplomats and politicians should focus efforts on developing this concept and abandon the 2008 decision on the Membership Action Plan for Ukraine, write Sergiy Sydorenko and Alona Hetmanchuk.

Uber went all in to break the French taxi sector, all the while dodging taxes and keeping drivers in high levels of precarity, Mark MacGann, the Uber Files whistleblower, told EURACTIV France in an exclusive interview.

To cut carbon emissions in the transport sector, new EU legislation will see petrol and diesel cars phased out on EU roads. This will be achieved through a de facto ban on the sale of new fossil-fuel powered passenger vehicles...

Far-right leader Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) insists his party should govern at the head of a two-way coalition following the 2024 election for which he is currently leading the opinion polls. Only a two-party constellation with the Freedom Party at the...