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The European socialists kick off their EU election campaign in Rome on Saturday (2 March) in a less than jubilant mood: The party is losing its grip on power across Europe, with Germany and Spain the last important strongholds.

Tensions were high after a meeting between Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and his Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó after the latter accused Italy of ‘interfering’ with Hungarian justice in the case of Italian prisoner Ilaria Salis.

The funeral of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is scheduled to be held in Moscow on Friday (1 March), with mourners braving the risk of arrest to come and pay their respects.

Spain’s Supreme Court is investigating former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who has been on the run since Catalonia’s 2017 secession attempt, in relation to terrorism, a move that puts extra pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who relies on the separatist’s support to stay in power.

After Portugal’s snap elections on 10 March, the nation may be at a crossroads in forming a government, given the exponential growth of the far right, from which all other parties promise to keep their distance.

Poland will study Latvia’s decision to ban agricultural imports from Russia and Belarus and will look at imposing embargoes for grain to prevent it from destabilising the Polish market, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced at a press conference with his Latvian counterpart, Evika Siliņa.

European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell denounced late Thursday (29 February) the killing of dozens of Palestinians during an aid delivery in the northern Gaza Strip, calling the deaths "totally unacceptable".

Despite several challenges member states such as Poland face in implementing projects on time under the EU Recovery Fund, the European Commission insists on the agreed 2026 deadline, stressing the fund’s “temporary” nature.

Together with Katja Muñoz, research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Technology, we talk about the impact of social media and technology on the 2024 European Parliament elections.

Leo Tolstoy’s famous maxim about families could easily be adapted to express an important truth about contemporary geopolitics: the economies of the EU and Russia are both unhappy, but each in its own way. 

The number of confirmed foreign investments projects in France is on the up for the third year in a row, according to new government data released on Thursday (29 February) – almost a third of which comes from the US, despite growing concerns over labour costs and administrative complexity.

Is public opinion in EU countries pushing toward a settlement in Ukraine? A recent study provides food for thought -- and suggests this might be the case.

Writing in Euractiv recently, the CEO of the World Brewing Alliance, Justin Kissinger, made some remarkable claims that deserve some scrutiny. He began his piece with a reflection on the failure of the US experiment with alcohol prohibition, and a warning about the continuing influence of the temperance movement over global and national policy approaches to alcohol.

The way out of the ongoing crisis of food imports is through the EU and its safeguards and not via the "populist" game of blaming it on Ukraine or Brussels, Poland's former deputy minister of agriculture and director general at the European Commission, Jerzy Plewa, told Euractiv in an interview.

When Austria was forced to admit in mid-February that Russian gas made up 98% of its recent gas supply  – two years after the Kremlin attacked Ukraine – it triggered a political pile-on. Will Austria be able to rid itself of its dependence?

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Brussels and Washington are close to greenlighting the launch of European navigation satellites from US territory this year to avoid service disruption, after two years of delay, Euractiv has learnt.

The management board of the EU’s food authority EFSA is ‘not satisfied’ with the outcome of the recruitment process for a new chief executive and will ask the European Commission to ‘relaunch’ it, the board’s chairman said in a statement on Thursday (29 February). 

On the 25th Rare Disease Day, three representatives of the rare disease community consider how to maximise the potential of the EU’s Joint Clinical Assessment to accelerate patient access to ATMPs.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (29 February) that Western support for Ukraine risks triggering a global war, in his most explicit threat to use nuclear weapons since he ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago.