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Germany will change its funding policy to expand digital infrastructure and ensure fibre-optic connections reach the most underserved communities, according to the 'Gigabit Funding 2.0' plan presented by the Digital and Transport Ministry. 

Tobacco stakeholders and the European Commission disagree over the practical value of the EU-led track and trace system on tobacco products whose initial aim was to curb the rising phenomenon of illicit trade.

Amazon and Microsoft could be set to face increased scrutiny in the UK after a regulator proposed referring its ongoing investigation into the cloud services market to the country’s competition authority. 

Following a series of fatal drug-related shootings in Marseille, French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti on Tuesday (4 April) underscored the government's opposition to legalising certain drugs.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Poland on Wednesday (5 April), buoyed by the latest announcement of U.S. military aid, as Russian troops pressed on with their long and costly battle to seize the eastern city of Bakhmut. Zelenskyy planned to...

Independent journalism is an indispensable cornerstone of our democracy; by providing citizens with reliable information and at the same holding those in power accountable, it is absolutely essential for the checks and balances without which democracy does not function properly, writes MEP Alexis Georgoulis.

By now we should know somehow that there's a bit of health in every EU policy - including policies you don't expect to have a health angle.

‘The evolution of European consumers’ opinions, trends, and behaviours shows a strong interest in overall health and well-being. It also highlights that consumers would like to be better informed on the labelling and in communications about probiotic food, and about...

Naftogaz, the Ukrainian state-owned oil and gas firm, is making 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas storage available to Europe “right now”, the company’s CEO told EURACTIV.

The increasing brutality against migrants at the EU’s external borders demonstrates the failure of EU migration policy, Swedish EU lawmaker Malin Björk, a member of The Left group at the European Parliament, told EURACTIV in a video interview. The MEP...

The Federation of German Industry (BDI) effectively called for a renegotiation of the frozen EU-China investment deal in a somewhat surprising statement on Wednesday (5 April).

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Green Brief, our weekly selection of energy and environment news from across Europe. To subscribe, follow this link. You can also subscribe to our daily newsletter here and to our comprehensive weekly update here. Germany likes to...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron seek to represent a united European front during the trip to China on Wednesday (5 April), while Europe struggles to define its relations with Beijing between 'de-risking' economic dependencies and broaching thorny issues like Ukraine.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Poles not wanting the far-right to enter government, the German opposition pushing to investigate Scholz over a tax scandal, and so much more.

On the same day that Kosovo and Serbia’s chief negotiators met in Brussels with the EU’s Special Envoy to the Western Balkans, Miroslav Lajcak, Serbian President Aleksander Vucic levied strong words against his Kosovar counterpart Albin Kurti, and the EU-facilitated...

Main opposition leftist Syriza party and Greek socialists hit at Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis after a EURACTIV report revealed that the EU Prosecutor has launched an investigation over the use of illegal Predator spyware in the country.

The Belgian police’s raid in the European People’s Party (EPP) headquarters on Tuesday in Brussels over an alleged scandal involving a former consultant of EPP chief Manfred Weber has caused frustration within the EU centre-right family, EURACTIV has learnt. EURACTIV...

This week, EURACTIV’s journalist Giedrė Peseckytė is talking with a Polish pro-abortion activist Justyna Wydrzynska who got sentenced in mid-March to eight months of community service for sharing abortion pills with another woman back in 2020. *The interview was conducted...

Finland has a long-standing strong interest in the Western Balkans and supports its partners there in their European journey. But we also expect them to align fully with the EU's foreign and security policy and uphold human rights and the rule of law, writes Pekka Haavisto.

The head of the EU delegation and the Ambassador of the EU to Serbia, Emanuele Giaufret, said Serbia must implement old and new agreements and be prepared to compromise with Kosovo if it wants to continue on its EU path....