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China will present its own proposal for a political settlement of Russia's war in Ukraine, the country's top diplomat Wang Yi told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday (18 February).

The United States will directly warn companies against evading US sanctions imposed on Russia over the war in Ukraine, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said, as Washington seeks to further squeeze Russia's economy.

Bulgarian authorities on Friday (17 February) found the bodies of 18 people who suffocated in a truck smuggling them through the country.

Bulgaria will not join the eurozone on 1 January 2024, a target date the country had announced three years ago, Finance Minister Rositsa Velkova said in Sofia on Friday (17 February), instead setting a new target date for the entry for exactly one year later.

French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to toughen his stance towards Russia on Friday (17 February), urging allies to step up military support for Ukraine and suggesting a forum to deal with Kyiv’s request for fighter jets. Speaking at the Munich...

Solomon’s dilemma is a phrase used to describe a seemingly impossible decision that must be made between competing alternatives, like choosing between your favourite children - or, say, your favourite European Parliament committee.

The white smoke is almost with us. The steady stream of briefings from EU and UK officials has become a free-flowing river. Close to two years of talks on the revision of the Northern Ireland protocol are, it appears, nearing a conclusion.  

German Minister of Finance Christian Lindner and the Austrian Minister of Finance Magnus Brunner are pushing European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness not to ban inducement-based financial advice in the EU Commission's upcoming Retail Investment Strategy.

The Swedish presidency of the EU Council proposed giving media outlets the power to scrutinise content restriction decisions in a new compromise text to the Media Freedom Act circulated this week. 

Increasing physical activity among Europeans could save EU countries €8 billion annually, the WHO and OECD estimated in their report published on Friday (17 February). 

Ukraine's Western allies who can deliver battle tanks to Ukraine should do so right away, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday (17 February) but dampened Kyiv's hopes for fighter jets or long-range missiles.

There is “no alternative to Ukrainian victory” as Kyiv presses on with efforts to fight back against invading Russia’s forces, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Munich Security Conference on Friday (17 January).

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “‘Artificial Intelligence system’ (AI system) means an engineered or machine-based system that can, for a given set of objectives,...

European lawmakers see Commission’s recent communication on fertilisers as just a first step to ensuring the EU's strategic autonomy in this sector, pushing to consider more long-term actions to support struggling farmers.

EXPLAINER. Since the June election, the alliance of French left-wing parties in the National Assembly, NUPES, has had its ups and downs. Today, it stands united against the pension reform. Is it just a facade or an expression of fundamental unity?

South Africa was due to launch a joint naval exercise with Russia and China on 17 February, a move it is calling routine but which has fuelled domestic criticism and fears the drills will endanger important relations with Western partners.

Spain's Repsol said on Thursday (16 February) it was planning to launch a legal challenge to Spain's new windfall tax on energy companies, claiming the levy violates Spanish and European Union law.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Belgium's seven-point plan to fight drug use and trafficking, Poland and the UK further cementing their relationship, and so much more.

The coming weeks will be fundamental for the DSA to take shape, as the European Commission is working on secondary legislation to define critical provisions of the regulation, and large online platforms are taking their first steps toward compliance. EURACTIV...

Eurosceptics have a new bugbear, claiming that Brussels has a clandestine plan to make people eat insects in a misinformation narrative flourishing on and offline.