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The EU is ostensibly on a green crusade at the moment, with grand proclamations and plans aimed at burnishing our environmental credentials. But it requires a huge human resources effort, which may prove more testing than the climate challenge.

Boris Johnson’s government is anxious to make sure that EU leaders understand that the days of compromise under Theresa May are over. On Monday night (17 February), his EU adviser David Frost delivered that message without fear or favour.

EU finance ministers added on Tuesday (18 February) the Cayman Islands and Panama, together with Palau and the Seychelles, to the bloc's blacklist of tax havens, which now includes twelve countries.

Despite the European Commission's proclaimed aim of decarbonising transport, and various pieces of legislation it has pushed forward, Europe’s transport sector will remain heavily dependent on oil until 2030.

A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday (18 February) overturned the annulment of a $50 billion award to shareholders in the now defunct Russian oil giant Yukos, a surprise ruling 13 years after the assets came under control of the Kremlin.

Poverty and violence are among the most dramatic threats children in Europe are facing, according to 'Joining Forces', a coalition of children's rights campaigners, but if the EU really wants to tackle them, it had better hear their voices, members of the coalition told EURACTIV.

With some member states demanding further cuts to the EU's next long-term budget, this week's discussions are expected to be particularly challenging, and continued hardening of positions may also mean that negotiations could even end up in a ‘no deal’ situation by the end of the year, write Niels Keijzer and Benedikt Erforth.

Medicines shortages have multiple causes. We at Medicines for Europe have identified some solutions that can ease the situation.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Transport Brief – your one port of call for all the news moving the world and much more!

Although Russia has made great strides to decrease methane flaring in recent years, it still lags badly behind neighbouring gas producing countries like Norway. And gas flaring is only part of the story, because it doesn’t take account of leakage, says Lukas Trakimavičius.

Tunisia has always publically refuted reports that it “promised” Europe to accept hosting on its soil refugees from different African countries, but the EU could seize the opportunity of a war in Libya to convince Tunisia to do so, writes Mourad Teyeb.

Britain will develop its own system for regulating state aid and controlling subsidies after its post-Brexit transition period is over, London's negotiator for the long-term relationship with the European Union said on Monday (17 February).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the brewing refugee crisis at the border between Russia and Finland, a US ambassador warning the Czech Republic not to adopt a 7% digital tax, academics against Janez Janša leading Slovenia, and so much more.

The Serbian and Russian defence ministers, Aleksandar Vulin and Sergey Shoygu committed to permanently develop defence ties between their countries during a meeting in Belgrade on Monday (17 February) where the two discussed cooperation in the defence sector, Serbia’s defence...

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has hailed the victory of joint opposition candidate from the far-right Jobbik, Gergely Kállő, in Sunday’s by-election in the city of Dunaújváros, saying it had helped unify the opposition parties. While Fidesz did not present...

Just under half of the world's annual GDP is now covered by nations, regions and cities that are legislating for a net-zero emissions target, a new study has revealed. EURACTIV's media partner edie.net reports.

Greek Hellenic Petroleum and German JUWI CEOs signed yesterday the biggest ever solar energy investment in Greece which, at 204 MW, also happens to be the fourth largest in Europe, in an attempt to differentiate the energy mix of Greece....

Libya’s combatants are readying for a long conflict, as foreign weapons flood in, eastern factions close oil ports and rival alliances wrangle over revenues from Africa’s largest petroleum reserves.

The left-wing coalition government of PSOE and Unidas Podemos/United We Can will approve today (18 February) a tax on financial transactions, as well as one on digital services, government sources told EURACTIV’s partner EFE on Monday. Spain’s Minister of Finance,...

Die Linke (The Left), the Greens, and the Social Democrats (SPD) met with the Christian Democrats (CDU) in Thuringia’s state capital on Monday (17 February) to discuss a way forward after the state’s recent political crisis. Former Minister-President Bodo Ramelow...