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Finland lacks integrity and turns its back on Hungary by joining the European Commission’s lawsuit against the Hungarian anti-LGBTQ+ child protection law right after Hungary voted in favour of Finland’s accession to NATO, Hungarian Secretary of State Tamás Menczer said...

Czech Commissioner Věra Jourová plans to meet with large technology companies in a month to discuss with them, among other things, the implementation of their new obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA should provide EU member states...

Russian technicians may have been intentionally sabotaging the operation of Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets owned by the Slovak army, said Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď. Mig-29 fighters are Soviet-made twin-engine aircraft that were part of the Slovak army as the legacy...

The European Commission has proposed labelling certain investments in aviation as green, after a months-long row over whether to add the sector to the EU's list of sustainable investments.

At least €300,000 worth of contracts between the European People’s Party (EPP) and a company allegedly related to Mario Voigt, the EPP digital campaign manager during the 2019 EU election campaign, are on the radar of the German authorities, EURACTIV...

Technical standards will play a key role in how the EU’s upcoming AI rulebook will work in practice. We discuss the challenges and policy trends in the standardization process in Europe with Connor Dunlop, European public policy lead at the...

A new Agency for Minorities, Migration and Asylum will replace the Foreigners and Immigration Service (SEF) as well as the High Commission for Migration, the cabinet decided on Thursday. “The cabinet approved today the creation of the Portuguese Agency for...

The introduction of reusable plastic packaging in e-commerce could inflate costs by 50- 200% compared to traditional cardboard boxes in a country like Germany, according to consulting firm McKinsey.

The two-month-long Court lawyers’ strike that ended at the end of March has resulted in 400,000 pending lawsuits and the paralysis of €1.3 billion in due payments – a crisis that is unlikely to abate as other parts of the...

The European Union is currently revamping its green buildings law. Ahead of finals talks on the proposal, EURACTIV interviewed Ciarán Cuffe, a Green MEP who will represent the European Parliament in negotiations with the other EU institutions.

Spain has deployed advanced Norwegian-made Nasams surface-to-air defence missiles in Estonia as part of its commitment to NATO in the Baltic region. The Nasams system will protect the Amari air base, where NATO fighters operate as part of the Alliance’s...

Three-times former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalised in intensive care on Wednesday and despite swirling rumous, his health condition is now stable and has improved since Wednesday, sources told ANSA. Berlusconi, 86, is undergoing treatment at...

The European Commission has launched a far-reaching revision of the EU’s packaging law, which for the first time introduces mandatory reuse targets for packaging such as drinks bottles and e-commerce delivery boxes.

The UK government will restart banking checks on accounts opened by people suspected to be living in the UK illegally in an effort to deter illegal migration, the Home Office announced on Thursday. On Tuesday, data sharing with the financial...

Up to 150 marines will be sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina for a year to reinforce the European Union Force (EUFOR) Althea mission, Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra and Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren declared in a letter to parliament on Thursday....

Sustainability will be an integral part of Malmö FF‘s everyday life. Since the early 1900s, the club has been involved in many different ways in contributing to a sustainable and better society. The European Football for Development Network (EFDN) consists of...

Luxembourg’s 2021 ban on glyphosate has no legal basis, an administrative second instance administrative court has ruled. Luxembourg was the first member state to unilaterally ban the use of the pesticide on 1 January 2021 after it was sued by...

Belgium will host a number of heads of state and government as well as EU officials for the second North Sea Summit on 24 April to make the sea the EU’s “largest green energy power plant” by 2050.

Austria may be fined for not transposing the original 2018 version of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive due to be transposed at the start of 2021,  a turn of events for which the opposition blames the lack of unity within the government.

Residues of a fungicide banned in France in 2020 are omnipresent in drinking water, a report by the French National Health Security Agency published on Thursday reads. Traces of fungicide known as chlorothalonil metabolite R471811 were often found in French...