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One of the biggest obstacles to deploying energy efficiency solutions is the part of it you can’t see – the lack of data interoperability between various components. Europe is struggling to ensure smart energy efficiency is truly interconnected.

In a communication presented on Wednesday (20 March), the European Commission unveiled actions meant to drive Europe's biotechnology and biomanufacturing forward despite numerous challenges.

In a letter seen by Euractiv, agriculture ministers from five EU countries called on the Commission to propose draft legislation to limit the import of grains from Russia and Belarus, citing unfair competition and moral obligations.

EU initiatives against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have always excluded the agricultural sector. This is meant to avoid side effects on global food security, as Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat and a major player in the global fertiliser market.

Next time you go by a construction site, look carefully. You might be witnessing exploitation of workers. Urgent action is needed, and the European Commission cannot simply look away.

Water is essential to human life, to the health of our ecosystems and to European economies, yet it is under increasing stress due to overexploitation, rising demand and the effects of climate change.

With the decision to expand NATO's military base near the strategic Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania will have stronger security guarantees, a representative of the Romanian Defence Ministry told Euractiv on Tuesday (19 March).

Leftists in the European Parliament claimed the top spot in the ranking of political groups' environmental performance published by the French environmental association Bloom on Wednesday (March 20), with those on the right relegated to the bottom of the table.

Sharp words addressed to World Health Organisation (WHO) members instead of the usual soft diplomatic language opened the last round of formal negotiations on the pandemic treaty that kicked off on Monday (18 March) in the International Negotiating Body (INB).

Polls don’t tell the full story of what EU citizens want from upcoming EU elections – and we need to dive deeper into the interplay between Europeans’ views on further EU integration and their takes on specific EU policies, write Bruno Cautrès and Thierry Chopin.

In today's capitals, find out more about Germany's police arresting two people suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on Sweden's parliament, Poland's top general saying Russia is preparing a conflict with NATO, and so much more.

Moldova on Tuesday (19 March) expelled a Russian diplomat over the opening of polling stations for Russia's presidential election in the breakaway region of Transnistria after summoning the Russian ambassador.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (19 March) told the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, to help Russian companies bust Western sanctions and expand their clout into new markets around the world.

Romania’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by two opposition parties seeking the constitutional annulment of legislation that decriminalises tax evasion of less than €1 million, provided the evader pays the amount owed along with a fine.

Far right Lega leader Matteo Salvini remarks over the Russian elections saying “when people vote they are always right” has caused turmoil in the right-wing coalition government with many estimating that Lega is struggling to find its political space in the coalition’s balance of power after the EU elections in June.

After less than a year with a regular government, Bulgaria is once again entering a spiral of political instability after the two largest formations in the parliament - Boyko Borissov’s centre-right GERB (EPP) and the centrist We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) - failed to agreeon forming a government.

The Special Prosecutor’s Office officially closed on Wednesday due to the government’s controversial reforms to the country’s criminal code, as investigators used their last day to bring charges against a close associate of Prime Minister Robert Fico.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday (19 March) warned that Ukraine's survival was in danger and sought to convince allies that the United States was committed to Kyiv, even as Washington has essentially run out of money to keep arming Ukrainian forces.

On Wednesday, the EU liberals will kick off their joint election campaign and present their three Franco-German lead candidates who will spearhead their campaign.

The foreign ministers of Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary – collectively known as the Visegrad Group (V4) – will hold diplomatic talks in Prague on Thursday despite sharply differing views on Russian aggression in Ukraine.