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Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has committed to a 2025 Biotech Act. Now, Belgium's Flanders Institute of Biotechnology is calling for a biotech coalition of member states to steer the Act to success.

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for Chinese cooperation with its efforts to establish the origins of COVID-19, after unveilng a new guide on the investigation of novel pathogens.

A nationwide referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant, and nine key tasks to enhance Kazakhstan’s future were laid out in President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s state-of-the-nation address.

As most of Europe headed to their favourite holiday destinations, European agriculture grappled with the challenges of record-breaking temperatures and prolonged droughts, impacting critical food-producing regions. Elisabeth looks at climate impact on EU agriculture.

As Italy goes through an epidemic of African swine fever (ASF) that is putting the production of ham under stress, the Commission warns that the bloc is not close to finding a vaccine against the disease.

Journalists and citizens are left in the dark as the halls of the Berlaymont whisper little about the EU’s next collective leadership. But could this secrecy be more of a deliberate design than a flaw in the European system?

The EU’s biggest islands, according to geography, are Ireland, with 84 thousand square kilometres, Sicily (25,000 sq. km), and Sardinia (24,000 sq. km). But it can be argued that the EU’s biggest islands are three other, much bigger territories.

Despite coming third in the snap legislative elections on 7 July, the far-right Rassemblement national (RN) holds new French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's fate in its hands and could decide at any moment to bring down the future government.

Russia would be rooting for US Democratic candidate Kamala Harris over Republican candidate Donald Trump to win the November presidential election for her "infectious laugh," President Vladimir Putin joked on Thursday (5 September) as worries over Moscow's US election interference grow.

The new European Commission must set a bold EU emissions reduction target for 2040 to ensure climate neutrality by 2050, a 90% reduction target is essential to keep the EU on track for a fossil-free future, write researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday (5 September) voted to appoint a new foreign minister, and two new deputy prime ministers as part of a major government overhaul.

The Spanish government is working against the clock to come up with a temporary 'strategic plan' to alleviate the severe migration crisis in the Canary Islands and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta (in North Africa), while the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has encouraged Madrid to formally ask for help to contain the humanitarian emergency.

Germany’s GDP growth forecast was downgraded to zero percent by a leading think tank on Thursday (5 September), amid growing fears that weak productivity and a sustained weakness in manufacturing could lead to weak growth becoming entrenched in Europe’s largest economy.

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has made a series of recommendations to the ECDC, the EMA and the European Commission to better prepare for future pandemics, set out in a critical report.

At long last, President Emmanuel Macron has picked former EU Brexit negotiator and French presidential candidate Michel Barnier to become France’s prime minister on Thursday (5 September).

German police shot dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday (5 September), state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.

German police shot dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday (5 September), state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.

The Treaty has been watered down to exclude the private sector, thanks to pressure from non-EU countries like the US.

The Treaty has been watered down to exclude the private sector, thanks to pressure from non-EU countries like the US.

French and German industries have similar carbon intensities, despite a largely decarbonised French electricity supply, according to a La Fabrique de l’industrie and McKinsey report published Thursday (5 September).