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The Commission has put forward a proposal to create a new unit within the EU’s Intellectual Property Office to focus on transparency of standard patents.

After seven years of ambiguity regarding the German law on data retention, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled it inapplicable and incompatible with EU law on Thursday (March 30).

A large majority in the European Parliament voted in favour of adopting the EU’s pay transparency directive aiming to narrow the EU gender pay gap during a plenary session on Thursday (30 March).

After a unanimous vote in the legal affairs committee last week, the European Parliament adopted on Wednesday (29 March) its position on the protection of the environment through criminal law, including a definition of ecocide backed by stricter penalties. 

The EU made the case for Europe’s digital transition. The commensurate skills must follow. This was the prevailing view among participants during the EURACTIV-GIGAEurope Digital Debate. In a fast-moving labour market and society, lifelong learning must become a reality.

It is not in Europe's interest to decouple itself fully from China and the bloc should instead look into diplomatic and economic 'de-risking' instead, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday (30 March).

Agreement on the EU’s renewable energy directive brings to a close an 18-month process to upgrade the bloc’s climate policies and achieve a 55% net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Ukraine hopes for a positive assessment of its efforts to implement political reforms later this year and will engage in bilateral talks with EU countries to streamline reforms and track progress, the country's Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna told EURACTIV.

The EU may soon extend its requirements for climate transition plans through the ongoing development of a corporate sustainability due diligence directive. However, the final version of the directive presents three key issues that need to be addressed to ensure an effective transition plan, writes Romain Hubert.

Thousands of elderly Swiss women have joined forces in a groundbreaking case heard on Wednesday (29 March) at the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that their government's "woefully inadequate" efforts to fight global warming violate their human rights.

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday (29 March) adopted by consensus and to cheers a resolution calling for the world body's top court to outline legal obligations related to climate change.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Slovakia's energy minister bypassing a national parliament decision when giving his approval to the EU combustion engine ban, Russia's Embassy in Stockholm issuing threats against Sweden and Finland over NATO, and so much more.

This week on the Beyond the Byline podcast, we are looking at the anti-money laundering and terrorism financing reform approved by the European Parliament on March 28th. Recent successive scandals such as Qatar gate and Danske Bank have led to...

Romania took a step closer to getting the much-awaited third €3 billion tranche from the Recovery Fund after the Senate greenlit a government’s bill on the so-called “special pensions”, an EU prerequisite to unlock funds. The “special pensions” law stipulates...

While the EU likes to promote itself as a union of gender equality, in reality European women still face immense inequality, especially when it comes to the paycheck, argue Samira Rafaela and Sylvie Brunet from Renew Europe ahead of the vote on the Pay Transparency Directive in the European Parliament on Thursday (30 March).

Russian forces have had some success in the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian military officials said on Wednesday evening (29 March), adding that their fighters were still holding on in a battle that has lasted several months.

Manfred Weber said on Wednesday that the Rule of Law in Greece is a national matter and not a European issue to be discussed in the European Parliament triggering the strong reaction of other political groups.

A father who kept his eight-year-old daughter imprisoned in Belgrade has been arrested, but the family court has not taken his conservatorship away, leading to the public condemning the response of institutions in this case. After four days of hiding,...

Bulgarians will vote on 2 April for the fifth general elections in two years, but the odds of forming a stable government after that are not high. There is no light at the end of the dark tunnel of the...

The Slovenian parliament has passed two bills that simplify procedures to make it easier for employers to recruit workers from non-EU countries, and there will also be less red tape for third-country nationals. Parliament on Tuesday adopted amendments to the...