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Protestors took to the streets for the second time in two weeks against President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform, putting the government’s stability at risk as it intends to push through the bill, come what may. According to the Interior Ministry’s...

The US-based NGO “Human Rights Watch” on 31 January asked Kyiv to investigate what it claims to be the use by the Ukrainian army of anti-personnel mines. Ukrainian rights defenders deplored the claims, which they said "support the enemy".

European city-to-city cooperation, including town twinning, is increasingly viewed as a possible solution to current challenges of sustainability as well as a way to promote best practice exchanges at the local level.

EURACTIV provides an overview of the main changes EU lawmakers introduced to the new data law ahead of the EU Parliament’s key votes.

Despite high ambitions, the European Union has made “slow progress” in integrating the electricity markets of its 27 member states and has so far failed to ensure access to cheap power for consumers, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said in a report published on Tuesday (31 January).

Over the past few months, the EU’s reaction to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) seemed to alternate between doomsday panic and nostalgia for a bygone era of multilateral trade. It's time to face the facts and embrace the race towards cleaner industry.

Lasting peace between Kosovo and Serbia is unlikely to be achieved while the two remain on such unequal footing regionally and internationally, combined with pressure from the international community over the establishment of the Association of Serb Municipalities, argue Gëzim Visoka and Vjosa Musliu.

The purpose of the event was to explore at the European level the aim of the “Pact for the Decarbonisation of air transport”, promoted by ADR with the purpose to collect and disseminate scientific knowledge, through the support of experts from the academic world, by systematizing resources and skills from different sectors and realities active in the decarbonization process.

Italian citizens are constantly exposed to air pollution levels that far exceed the established limits, posing serious health threats, according to a study published on Monday (30 January) by Legambiente, Italy's biggest environmental organisation. 

The inability to attract young workers is having serious ramifications for the transport sector, from a lack of lorry drivers compounding supply chain problems, to insufficient staff causing summer travel chaos at airports.

A coalition of EU agriculture ministers have joined forces to push back against a potential ban on live animal transport to third countries, but the Commission stressed the need to be ambitious on animal welfare. 

Turkey's advances across the border of Iraqi Kurdistan attract little global attention compared to its incursions into Syria or the battle against Islamic State, but the escalation risks further destabilising a region where foreign powers have intervened with impunity.

Rewatch this EURACTIV Virtual Conference to find out what opportunities the change in Brazilian leadership can bring to the Mercosur Trade Agreement negotiations. What can be improved to increase its chances of ratification? When will the Commission publish a complementary declaration on sustainability issues? How likely is it that the Council and EU Parliament will ratify it? What role would this trade agreement play in global geopolitics in the context of current challenges? And how could European industry benefit from the agreement?

This article was updated with a reference to the Council compromise’s changes related to known vulnerabilities. EU countries are considering adjusting the definition of product lifecycle to the specificity of the product and moving the reporting of vulnerabilities at the...

A European teenager of today may not know the flags of all European nations, but most certainly they are able to identify three - his country, the EU, and Ukraine, writes Oleh Saakyan.

Belgian police have arrested an attacker who knifed three people in a Brussels metro station on Monday (30 January), leaving one with critical injuries, officials said.

The Biden administration has stopped approving licenses for US companies to export most items to China's Huawei, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The EU’s electricity sector is likely to be more heavily regulated in the coming years, with coal, gas and nuclear falling under closer government supervision and only renewable energies remaining part of a competitive EU market, according to the vice-president of Euracoal, a trade association.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Finland being likely to face a swath of strikes in February, inflation in Spain being at its highest in 35 years after state subsidies ended, and so much more.

The European Union has appointed gas capacity platform Prisma to calculate countries' collective demand for gas, as the bloc moves ahead with a plan to launch joint gas buying among EU countries.