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Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. As businesses and governments cry out for more skilled workers, it is good to know that in a properly functioning market, skills and labour force shortages will...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday (2 March) urged China not to send weapons to help Russia's war in Ukraine and instead asked Beijing to exert pressure on Moscow to pull back its forces.

With the news that Germany may abstain from a vote on ending the production of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035, the fate of the long-negotiated law on CO2 standards for cars and vans is now uncertain.

A French parliamentary 'Uber Files' investigative committee aims to shine a light on Uber’s lobbying practices, and the reality of the economy’s ‘uberisation’, while workers’ representatives want to do away with self-employment and push for general reclassification.

EURACTIV takes a closer look at how France's far-right views its environmental responsibilities and priorities. Nationalism, conservatism and localism shape its approach, according to experts.

The European Parliament's environment committee voted on Wednesday (1 March) for a quick phasedown of F-gas refrigerants, in a move that drew criticism from the heat pump industry. 

Eurohold Bulgaria, a leading energy and financial group in Southeast Europe, has sent a complaint to the Bulgarian prosecution regarding what it said is "extortion and corruption of extraordinary proportions" harming its Romanian subsidiary, EURACTIV Bulgaria has learned.

In a bid to speed up the supply of ammunition to Ukraine, EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell is proposing to use an additional €1 billion to boost ammunition production in Europe, according to an options paper sent to member states,...

EXCLUSIVE: Amendments to the EU’s draft methane regulation would allow coal mines to release additional greenhouse gases equivalent to the combined annual CO2 emissions of Belgium and Czechia, according to Ember, a clean energy think-tank.

Europe's chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi is already investigating frauds that allegedly cost EU taxpayers 14 billion euros -- now she wants to go after the smugglers undermining sanctions against Russia.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Austrian unemployment rate hitting its lowest level since 2008, Bulgaria denying citizenship to a Spanish-born child with two mothers, and so much more.

This week on the Beyond the Byline podcast focuses on the growing danger posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Iran has attracted particular attention as a recent UN investigation revealed that the country has high percentages of Uranium that...

Germany’s plan to build at least eight new liquified gas terminals to replace Russian imports are being questioned by a leaked internal analysis for the country's economy and climate ministry.

An EU-brokered verbal agreement on the normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo reached on Monday may have pleased the international community, however Serbian President Aleksander Vucic threw a spanner in the works on Wednesday. Despite celebrations from the international...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), which investigates fraud and corruption related to EU funds, launched 23 investigations in Croatia in 2022 for cases with total estimated damages of over €313 million, according to their annual report released on Wednesday....

Western allies should provide Ukraine with more weapons and improve its military capacities as they can expect a large-scale and intensive military conflict, warned Senior Director of the Defence Policy and Strategy Section of the Czech Ministry of Defence Jan...

Slovakia has approximately €122 million earmarked for developing renewable electricity production in the National Recovery plan.

Serbia’s future is in the EU, and further important steps need to be taken, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said following a phone call with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Vučić stated on Instagram that the topics covered in...

The Albanian Culture Ministry has announced the creation of the ‘Besa Museum’ in the capital of Tirana to celebrate the history of Jews in Albania and the actions of the Albanians that sheltered and saved them during WWII. Albania has...

This week, EURACTIV’s health team brings you the nitty-gritty of the European Health Data Space together with one of the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the file, the centre-right Croatian MEP Tomislav Sokol