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Bulgaria will not refuse the drones and radars offered by the European Commission to guard the border with Turkey, but it wants the EU to fund a new fence, President Rumen Radev said on Thursday after he meets with Hungarian...

The EU's greatest strength in competition with the US and China is its single market, and if state aid regulations are permanently loosened, it will be undermined, write Piotr Arak and Konrad Szymański. 

On Thursday (2 February), the European Parliament voted in favour of a report that wants to strengthen the rights of European Works Councils (EWC) in order to reinforce the voice of employees in large European companies.

Any negotiations with Putin's Russia and compromises will put the war on “pause", allowing Russia to re-launch it later on a bigger scale as a major attack against democracy, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Ukraine's leadership on Thursday (2 February) made an unequivocal plea for EU membership as the bloc's top officials met their government counterparts in Kyiv in a first-of-its-kind gathering. 

Sweden is taking the Presidency of the Council of the EU for the next 6 months.   The Swedish Presidency has a few key priorities that they’re focusing on, including security, competitiveness, green and energy transitions, democratic values, and the...

When the EU electoral system was established, ahead of the first European Parliament elections in 1979, the bloc had nine member states instead of the current 27 and 410 MEPs, in comparison to the current 705. “[It] is frustrating for...

The Commission’s ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’, unveiled on Wednesday (1 February), promises simplified EU regulation for clean technologies, but critics say it lacks clarity and opens the door to unrestricted subsidies in France and Germany until the end of 2025.

A year after an increasingly extremist climate movement began blocking traffic in Germany, the lack of a coherent set of goals of the so-called “Last Generation” is catching up to the young activists that wanted to “fix” the world.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) published an interim verdict ruling partially admissible Ukraine's allegations of Russia's human rights violations in eastern Ukraine, setting a precedent as the first international court to prove Russia's occupation in Donbas since 2014.

The corrugated Cardboard industry aims to produce carbon neutral packaging by 2050, provided the prerequisite conditions are met, notably by the decarbonisation of the paper and energy sectors.

The Council of Europe has urged Italy to scrap a decree seeking to regulate NGO migrant rescue operations at sea, describing it as a breach of international law.

EU regulators must compel car manufacturers to share vehicle-generated data with independent repairers to avoid raising costs for car owners and imperiling businesses, repair companies have said.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin arrived on Thursday (2 February) in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, for a two-day Digital Forum, a high-profile event with very little visible presence of the EU countries or companies.

Welcome to EU Politics Decoded. In this edition, we look at how NGOs and civil society groups risk becoming collateral damage from the Qatargate scandal.

EU lawmakers approved the internal market (IMCO) committee’s text on the Regulation on Political Advertising, paving the way for the next phase of the legislative process. 

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. The EU needs more revenue for its budget. While the Commission is expected to present new ‘own resources’ based on corporate taxation later this year, some members...

Exports from the Chinese province of Xinjiang to EU countries increased by 34% last year, data from the Chinese Customs Office shows, pitting the EU's drive to uphold human rights and eradicate forced labour against the need for imported goods.

After months of arduous negotiations, the much-debated and politically sensitive platform workers' file was finally approved in plenary on Thursday (2 February), with 376 in favour and 212 against.

Today, the way personal data is processed by the ad delivery algorithms of Meta and Google platforms poses a much greater threat to privacy and the integrity of electoral processes than microtargeting. The position on the Regulation on political advertising adopted by the European Parliament on 2 February leads the way in addressing present and future personal data-related risks to democracy and fundamental rights.