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France and Germany aim to agree on a 'common roadmap' for decarbonised hydrogen in which nuclear-based hydrogen will play an important role, the leaders of both countries said at the Franco-German Council of Ministers on Sunday (22 January).

The Common Agricultural Policy’s crisis reserve could be used to aid farmers in countries like Poland or Romania that are struggling with an influx of grain from neighbouring Ukraine, according to EU agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski.

Serbia, an EU candidate country, is increasingly misaligned with EU foreign policy and provides a haven to Russia in the context of Moscow's war of aggression against Ukraine. What should the EU do with Serbia, then? It’s a tricky question.

The European Commission launched its European Cancer Imaging Initiative on Monday (23 January), which aims to create a common digital infrastructure across the EU to facilitate data sharing on the disease.

One year after the tragic unrest and crackdown of January 2022, which resulted in 200 deaths, Kazakhstan's Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko told EURACTIV that the country has changed significantly.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, via video message at a conference in Berlin on Saturday (21 January), called on 70 national agriculture ministers to support his country in exporting grain as they also unanimously condemned Russia's war of aggression.

The German transport and environment ministries clashed again over the use of crop-based biofuels such as biodiesel and bioethanol, as debates over the best use of arable land intensify.

More than 700 other scientists from across European member states and scientific disciplines have deep concern about the recent turn of the political tide against the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation, writes Jeoren Candel.

How is it that pesticides that are banned in the EU still in routine use across the bloc? This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team takes a look at this question with the help of the Pesticide Action Network Europe’s Martin Dermine,...

The current European Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence is hardly implementable for internationally active small and medium sized companies from the engineering industry. It weakens the competitiveness in Europe and even endangers the objective to promote human rights and environmental protection around the world.

To “Scholz” in Ukraine is a verb meaning to continually promise something without ever actually having any intention of doing it, writes Evgenii Dainov. Evgenii Dainov is a Bulgarian academic, author and political commentator. In politics, illogical actions usually have two...

Protests in Stockholm on 21 January against Turkey and NATO, including the burning of a copy of the Koran, heightened tensions with Turkey at a time when the Nordic country needs Ankara's backing to gain entry to the military alliance.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has acknowledged “weaknesses” in how biomass energy is counted in national statistics after several EU countries reported a sudden increase in residential wood burning to meet their 2020 renewable energy goals.

EU member states that have a very high share of renewable heat tend to be the countries that burn a lot of biomass. And if they burn it inefficiently, it’s even better for them because they get more credit under the EU's renewable energy directive, says Jan Rosenow.

Each day of this ongoing war adds a shade of evil done by the Russian state and nation that decided to ruin the existing world order and rules of civilization, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Germany would not stand in the way if Poland wants to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Germany's foreign minister said, signalling a breakthrough as Ukraine tries to bolster its forces ahead of an expected new Russian offensive.

The European Central Bank's (ECB) decision to increase interest to fight inflation could impede investments in green energy, EU lawmaker Rasmus Andresen warned, calling on the bank to differentiate its interest rates.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany and France attempting to show unity, thousands in Spain demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and so much more.

Albania has been ravaged by bad weather over the last week, resulting in significant flooding and snowfall of up to a metre in the north leading to the mobilisation of some military forces to assist citizens. After seven days of...

After a meeting with key US and EU stakeholders, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said the topics of non-recognisers and membership to international institutions were the most crucial, while the US envoy to the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue said that if Kurti...