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The German Cabinet has passed new plans to oblige social media giants like Facebook and YouTube to report instances of hate speech to the authorities. Content that comes under the new measures includes far-right material, violent content including murder and...

Speaking before the parliamentary committee on the Environment (ENVI), Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides confirmed that the new EU food policy, the Farm 2 Fork Strategy (F2F), will feature legislative actions too and that there will be specific targets for the reduction of both risk and use of pesticides.

An anti-immigration campaign launched by a Serbian rightwing nationalist party has sparked unease within the disparate opposition coalition to which it belongs.

Chair for the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs, Norbert Röttgen, has joined the race to become ruling conservative party CDU’s new leader, after Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her intention to resign as party leader on 10 February. While he has presented...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about who could step into the shoes of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as CDU chief, Hungary's pledge to ban single-use plastics, Portugal's 'euthanasia debate', and so much more.

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Balkans, Richard Grenell, denied on Wednesday (19 February) that a plan on the exchange of territory between Serbia and Kosovo is still popular among US circles.  “Fake news,” Grenell tweeted, reacting to...

Attorney General Drazen Jelenic has resigned, the State Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday, because of his membership to the Freemasons lodge, despite him claiming that this had never affected his work or the court’s independence, reports Hina and Jutarnj list....

The International Organization for Migration on Wednesday (19 February) called on the world community to devise a "safe disembarkation mechanism" for migrants fleeing Libya, the day after a port in the capital of the war-torn country was hit by a barrage of rocket fire.

At the press conference presenting Hungary’s climate and nature protection action plan, Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics explained that next year the government will be banning the retail of disposable plastics and take measures to replace mass-produced, disposable products...

The government is determined to proceed with its decision for the construction of closed hosting facilities for refugees and migrants, Alternate Migration Minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos told EURACTIV’s media partner AMNA’s radio station on Wednesday (19 February). “This is to the...

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto of the Greens is subject to investigations led by the parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, and by the Prosecutor General in cooperation with the police. Although Haavisto has been leading the polls to become Finland’s next...

Spain’s socialist PM Pedro Sánchez proposed on Wednesday (19 February) to hold a bilateral dialogue with Catalan’s separatist president, Quim Torra, to solve the “political crisis” in Catalonia next Monday (24 February), EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported. But the Catalan regional government,...

Climate-friendly stocks have outperformed the broader market in the past two years and could also help to combat "short-termism" in financial markets, the European Union's securities regulator said on Wednesday (19 February).

Ireland's Fianna Fáil will step up efforts to form a government by starting formal engagement with other parties, except Sinn Féin, after marginally winning the most seats at an inconclusive 8 February election.

US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday (19 February) discussed a US deal with Taliban militants on a weeklong reduction in violence, meeting the day after Ghani was declared a winner of a disputed presidential poll.

Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under US jurisdiction instead, the company confirmed late on Wednesday (19 February).

The European Union energy watchdog praised North Macedonia on Wednesday (19 February) for a pioneering project among EU aspirants to transform an ageing coal mine into two solar power plants, in line with goals to cut pollution and tackle climate change.

The European Green Deal “will definitely create tensions” inside the EU, and risks pushing “two or three countries” to leave the Union altogether, warns former Romanian President Traian Basescu, saying the real priority in Romania is to build new infrastructure like motorways and exploit natural gas resources from the Black Sea.

Voters in the city state of Hamburg will elect their new parliament on 23 February, the first elections to take place after the Thuringian political turmoil broke out earlier this month. This is yet another test for Germany’s traditional parties that could seal the end of the country's traditional political landscape.   

In his first interview as the new chair of the parliamentary committee on fisheries (PECH), the Renew Europe MEP Pierre Karleskind called for a fisheries agreement with the UK that recreates the current situation whereby EU fishermen can have access to British waters and UK seafood can be sold on the Single Market.