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Keep your hands off the Hungarian children, Hungarian State Secretary of Foreign Affairs Tamás Menczer told Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates, Greens/EFA) who expressed his regrets that the Czech government will not join the European Commission’s lawsuit against Hungary’s...

Kosovo will remain in Serbia until the end of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s mandate, Vučić stated on live TV where he also said his country would implement parts of the European proposal regarding the normalisation of relations with Pristina. “Kosovo...

Prime Minister Georgia Meloni’s government is preparing new measures to increase birthrates despite deaths exceeding the number of births which have have hit a new all-time low. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics (Istat), as of 1...

In an ongoing dispute over biofuels made from crops such as rapeseed and wheat, Germany’s biggest biofuel producer argues that reducing meat consumption would be a much better way to free up agricultural space for food production, rather than phasing...

On Easter, a holy day for conservatives, the political ballet in Vienna started a new chapter as conservative ÖVP grandee, Finance Minister Magnus Brunner, felt obligated to retract comments that indicated his openness to governing with the far-right. In the...

The pro-European coalition Continuing the change-Democratic Bulgaria, which ranked second in the last parliamentary elections, announced that it would not support the government proposed by GERB because it had promised voters that it would not vote for former prime minister...

Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests on Saturday (8 April) against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court, despite heightened security worries after two deadly attacks a day earlier.

French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted by a huge crowd at a university in southern China on 7 April on the last day of a visit in which he pushed his counterpart Xi Jinping to help end the Ukraine conflict.

Ukraine's leaders discussed ways to prevent leaks of military information on Friday (7 April) after secret documents detailing US and NATO efforts to help the country plan a counter-offensive against Russia's invasion reportedly appeared on social media.

A German non-paper on the reform of European debt rules has been met with strong reactions from economists, who fear that the mistakes of the euro crisis could be repeated if the proposal is implemented strictly.

The EU electricity market has damaged France's energy system, according to the conclusions of a special enquiry committee set up by the French parliament.

15 EU governments have joined the European Commission’s lawsuit against Hungary over a controversial anti-LGBTQ law making what civil society groups have described as the largest human rights case in EU legal history. 

MEPs from Bulgaria and Romania will organise a big roadshow in support of their countries’ accession to the Schengen border-free space in the next months. The announcement was made on 6 April at a conference in Sofia.

Europe is packed with landmarks such as historical buildings, business towers, or sport stadiums. As Europe aims to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century, decarbonising large buildings is both a huge challenge and an opportunity.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “The horizontal nature of this Regulation means that very different segments of the Union’s economy will be impacted.” -The...

Infertility is a major health challenge globally with one in six people worldwide experiencing it at some point throughout their lifetime. But the EU’s action to address the issue remains limited.

The transition towards a circular economy is a global challenge. Due to the rising consumption and extreme pressure on resources, society faces a growing scarcity of essential resources and a great burden on the environment.

EU commitments to combat poverty are not credible if we let our biggest ethnic minority continue to live in slums without sewerage, transportation and schools, writes Shannon Pfohman. Shannon Pfohman is Policy and Advocacy Director at Caritas Europa. Most policymakers...

Climate ministers of the Group of Seven countries may make the case for new investments in natural gas supply, despite assessments that such investments would thwart globally agreed climate change goals, according to a document seen by Reuters.

The current regulatory brain-teaser on the use of the 'probiotics' term in the EU can only be solved at the political level with an initiative by the European Commission pushed by lawmakers, according to Italian professor Lorenzo Morelli.