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Paris is looking towards "liberal" allies such as the Netherlands to revive its nuclear industry, French Green MP Julie Laernoes told EURACTIV, after the country's National Assembly approved a bill seeking to build six new reactors.

The unveiling of the much-awaited reform of the EU's regulatory framework for pharmaceuticals has been pushed back to a later date for the third time in just a few months, EURACTIV has learnt.

France is at an impasse - and the problem goes deeper than President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform plan. In the absence of a viable political compromise, the only solution seems to be a change in the country's political culture.

Asylum seekers arriving in the EU will be required to apply for asylum in the country they arrive in, according to a leaked European Parliament document of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, obtained by EURACTIV. 

In the next funding period, from 2028 onwards, the EU must prepare its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to accommodate Ukraine and other EU candidate countries, according to German top farming ministry official Silvia Bender.

The European Commission tabled new legislation on Wednesday (22 March) to tackle misleading environmental claims by introducing penalties against greenwashing and tighter rules for the approval of new ecolabels. 

Germany’s free-market FDP party, currently blocking the EU-wide phase-out of internal combustion engines for cars, has proposed tackling road transport carbon by increasing the price of petrol and diesel through national carbon pricing and giving the money back to citizens via a per-capita direct payment.

Russia said on Wednesday (22 March) that a division of its Bastion coastal defence missile systems had been deployed to Paramushir, one of the Kuril islands in the north Pacific, some of which Japan claims as its territory.

Russia will always remain important for Europe, Austria's foreign minister said, saying that to think otherwise was delusional.

Russia blasted an apartment block in Ukraine with missiles on Wednesday (22 March) after launching a swarm of drones at cities overnight, a deadly display of force following a solidarity visit by China's leader Xi Jinping.

The unprecedented leak of a draft law banning new fossil heaters in Germany from 2024 is causing trouble at the highest level of government, adding to difficulties in pushing through the proposal.

This week, EURACTIV’s health team explores the outstanding revision of the EU framework on substances of human origins (SoHo) together with Annemette Arndal-Lauritzen, CEO of the European Sperm Bank, with a focus on the revision of the EU rules for...

Rewatch this EURACTIV Hybrid Conference to learn more about “flexibility” to facilitate a more resilient energy market and a decarbonised energy system. What are the different flexibility needs and the available technical solutions? What investments are needed and how can the electricity market design benefit from these investments?

After a record-breaking legislative process in terms of speed, EU lawmakers managed to avoid the risk of medical device shortages pushing back the implementation of the new EU framework, but this is not the last time we'll be hearing of the new medical devices rules.

This event discussed what it takes to successfully attract clean investments to Europe, despite the US Inflation Reduction Act, and to address the twin climate and energy challenges.

Rewatch this EURACTIV Virtual Conference to learn more about the challenges associated with tackling disinformation in the context of the war in Ukraine. What role can media outlets and journalists play in fighting such disinformation? Could the creation of a network of on-the-ground media outlets and journalists, and the presence of a centralised EU voice, be effective approaches for countering disinformation on the war? The sole responsibility for any content supported by the European Media and Information Fund lies with the author(s) and it may not necessarily reflect the positions of the EMIF and the Fund Partners, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the European University Institute.

Last week's push from the European Commission to boost the EU’s industrial competitiveness has met with mixed reactions, writes Kira Taylor.

The Solomon Islands has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a Chinese state company to upgrade an international port in Honiara in a project funded by the Asian Development Bank, an official of the island nation said on Wednesday (23 March).

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday (22 March) four new military bases under an agreement with the US would be located in various parts of the Philippines, including in a province facing the South China Sea.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the many trees in Germany affected by crown dieback, the UK signing a trade and security deal with Israel, and so much more.