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The European Parliament’s co-rapporteurs proposed compromise amendments to the list of high-risk AI applications, banned uses and concept definitions. EU lawmakers Brando Benifei and Dragoș Tudorache are striving to close the negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence Act in the coming...

The war in Ukraine, COVID-19, and climate change were the main disinformation topics last year. The EU remains a target; countering disinformation around the next European elections will require a multi-stakeholder approach, write Lauri Tierala and Tomasso Canetta.

Europe is discussing green industrial policy – and once more, new subsidies and new EU debt are on the agenda. But EU countries already heavily subsidise wind parks, solar panels and electric cars with billions – so what is going wrong?

The fossil fuels heating industry is trying to push hydrogen boilers as renewable, but at the moment only a very small fraction of hydrogen is green. To halt the greenwashing of heating technologies, legislative clarity is needed, writes Jan Rosenow.

Trading with international partners at "whatever costs" no longer makes sense, French Trade Minister Olivier Becht said, urging that the EU must react to the US Inflation Reduction Act with an industrial plan.

Belgian police have arrested two suspects after gunmen interrupted a sale of second-hand luxury watches in an underground carpark near the Brussels headquarters of the European Union, prosecutors said Tuesday(7 February).

More than two years ago, France became the first EU country to impose higher (€6.61) than the EU average (€3.34) excise taxes on tobacco, in an effort to reduce smoking rates.

Last week, Transport Commissioner Adina Vălean announced that the EU will throw its support behind 10 rail pilot projects, expanding cross-border train options across the continent.

We cannot risk another summer of infighting over Europe's borders. That is why we need, first and foremost, European solutions to tackle the evident migration and asylum challenges faced by Europe, and not 'Trumpist' strategies, writes Stéphane Séjourné.

The Qatargate scandal has damaged the reputation and credibility of Europe's house of democracy as it is the only EU institution where members are elected by citizens, Swedish Member of European Parliament (MEP) Abir al-Sahlani told EURACTIV in an interview.

The EU will launch a new platform to counter disinformation campaigns by Russia and China, the bloc's chief diplomat Josep Borrell said on Tuesday (7 February), as EU delegations and missions abroad are increasingly becoming a target.

*This article was updated to specify the scope of the conformity assessment procedure. The EU lawmakers leading on the AI Act have circulated revised compromise amendments on how AI systems that could pose significant risks should comply with the regulation’s...

Italy's energy utility Enel inaugurated its expanded 3Sun solar panel manufacturing facility in Sicily, making it the biggest factory in Europe, officials said.

Science-based cooperation between legislators and industry will benefit consumers and the environment.

Organic farming could save countries billions in environmental and climate costs, a German long-term study found. However, the picture is soured by organic yields still trailing significantly behind those of conventional agriculture.

Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio wrote to Facebook parent Meta Platforms on 6 February about documents that show developers in China and Russia had access to user data that could be used for espionage.

A senior US general responsible for bringing down a Chinese spy balloon said on 6 February the military had not detected previous spy balloons before the one that appeared on 28 January over the United States.

Ukraine had withdrawn from its libraries about 19 million copies of books by last November that came either from the Soviet era or were in Russian, a senior lawmaker said on Monday (6 February).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out about Bulgaria being at risk of being without fighter jets for two years, Austria defending Russia's participation at the upcoming OSCE assembly meeting in Vienna, and so much more.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been invited to take part in a summit of European Union leaders, the EU said on Monday (6 February), amid reports he could be in Brussels as soon as this week.