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Space exploration has seen astronauts travel to the moon. Satellites and probes have helped us understand our solar system, discovering thousands of stars and planets. In this EURACTIV thought leadership interview with the Executive Director of EUSPA (the EU Agency...

Migration will feature high on the agenda of the Special European Council on Thursday and Friday (9-10 February), where EU leaders will also discuss Ukraine and the economy.

The lawmaker in charge of steering negotiations on the EU’s revised renewable energy directive has cancelled an upcoming round of talks, laying the blame on the European Commission for failing to present a key piece of related hydrogen legislation.

The European Union's newly agreed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will likely test Western Balkan countries vying for bloc membership amid their ongoing process of aligning with the EU acquis.

EU lawmaker Inma Rodríguez-Piñero called for a swift wrap-up of negotiations between the EU and the South-American trading bloc Mercosur after years of delay.

How the US and the EU handle the present moment could have significant positive spillover effects for industrial decarbonisation around the world – and, as a result, international climate mitigation efforts, write Mary Hellmich and Sarah Jackson.

The German branch of Kremlin-backed outlet Russia Today (RT DE) will shut its doors following the latest round of EU sanctions, a month after its French counterpart was forced to do the same. 

EU countries should have “an unrestricted right” to subsidise power plants providing dispatchable electricity in case wind and solar are unavailable, according to a non-paper circulated by Warsaw ahead of EU proposals next month to reform the bloc’s electricity market rules.

Europe has the capacity and the financial means for a green industrial strategy, but it needs to up its social game. Swapping green investment for new austerity policies will jeopardise the Green Deal and social cohesion.  Let’s learn from the...

As the US competition authority proposed to ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts, a conversation about the exploitation of market power by employers is slowly taking shape in Europe.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team walks you through all the goings-on of the first meeting of EU agriculture ministers under the Swedish Presidency, including the latest on agri-trade with Ukraine and a push from ministers for more say over environmental...

Brazil sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off its northeast coast, the Brazilian Navy said, despite warnings from environmentalists that the rusting 1960s French-built ship would pollute the sea and the marine food chain.

The Polish Parliament is working to amend the country's infamous wind turbine act, which currently blocks onshore wind farm development in Poland, but critics say the new version does little to solve the problem. 

Ukraine has sent letters to companies that back the International Olympic Committee urging them to keep Russian athletes out of the Paris Olympic Games, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday (5 February).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Le Maire and Habeck going to Washington to defend the EU's response to the US Inflation Reduction Act, Poland gearing up for possible migration flows, and so much more.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday (5 February) Western missions would "pay" for issuing security warnings and temporarily closing consulates in Turkey last week.

More than half of Croats believe the Roma do not want to work, and almost a quarter think men and women are not the same and should not play the same social role, according to a poll published by Nova...

Four Balkan countries are in the global top 20 of countries in terms of smoking, according to data published by World Population Review and carried by Klix.ba. Serbia, where some 40.6% of the population are estimated to be smokers, is ranked...

The intentional spreading of disinformation could find its way into the Czech criminal code, according to a new action plan currently being discussed by the government. The contents of the draft plan, which has not yet been made public, have...

Currently leading the latest polls, SMER-SD is facing yet another high-level corruption charge that is likely to be overturned using a controversial paragraph which also cleared its chair’s case in November. Robert Kaliňák, Slovakia’s three-time Minister of Interior for SMER-SD,...