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The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on anti-money laundering legislation that has been hailed as “a really good step forward” by anti-corruption experts.

Joined by Gustav Kalbe previous head of unit for Quantum and now acting director for this research field, we talk about the EU’s plans to build a future ecosystem of super- and quantum computers.

As EU decision-making remains plagued by disunity, Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin (Fianna Fáil, Renew) suggested that government abstaining from decisions they do not agree with could be a “creative” way for the bloc to avoid deadlock in the future.

With the international community gathering at Davos this week, Mongolia’s Minister of Culture, Nomin Chinbat, met with leaders from politics and business about Mongolia’s rich cultural heritage and the economic growth potential that the country’s cultural and creative industries possess.

France is "not persuaded" that its 2050 'zero artificialisation' goal should be extended at EU level, even though discussions are currently underway on a European soil monitoring and resilience directive.

Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) in France remains one of the lowest in the European Union, prompting health professionals to warn of a risk to public health and the importance of vaccinating boys too.

Spain will soon reform its Constitution to remove all forms of discriminatory language against disabled people, currently referred to as “handicapped”, after parliament approved the measure on Thursday, with only the far-right VOX party voting against it.

The United Nations and the United States appealed for restraint on Thursday (18 January) after Iran and Pakistan traded deadly air strikes on militant targets on each other's territory.

Belgium is expected to join the flagship Future Combat Air System (FCAS) to build the next-generation European fighter jets 'in a few weeks as an observer nation, the country's defence minister told Euractiv.

The EU Court of Justice lifted the restrictions EU citizens face when buying agricultural land in Bulgaria in a ruling published on Thursday, more than 17 years after the country joined the bloc.

Recent reforms to Poland’s public media by the new government of Donald Tusk, which have sparked a fierce backlash from the opposition, are unlawful, the country’s controversial constitutional court ruled on Thursday – a decision Culture Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz says has “no legal significance” and should be ignored.

Germany's ruling coalition refused to back down in its political showdown with protesting farmers, deciding late on Thursday to stick to its plans to cut farm subsidies, opening the floodgates to an unprecedented "eruption" of new protests.

Terms such as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” that rely on offsetting will be banned from the EU by 2026 as part of a crackdown on misleading environmental claims. Euractiv's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

The capture, storage and utilisation of CO2 requires the construction of pipelines and network planning to enable industry to access geological storage areas and synthetic fuel producers to access (renewable) CO2 sources, write Daan Peters and Kees van der Leun.

The West must change its message on supporting Ukraine from “as long as it takes” to “whatever victory takes” if it wants to deter Russia from attacking the Baltic states, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday (18 January).

The European Commission will propose several options for promoting research and development (R&D) related to technologies with dual-use potential, namely, those that can be used for both civil and military purposes, such as drones and satellites.

Aidos Sarym, a member of the Kazakhstan parliament, analyses the recently adopted European Parliament resolution “EU Strategy on Central Asia: New Opportunities for a Stronger Partnership”.

Thirty European food chain organisations covering the entire chain have received an official invitation for a strategic dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 25 January, industry sources told Euractiv.

France's 'influencer law' is designed to target those from outside the European Union; therefore, aligning the law with EU rules will not be a problem, Stéphane Vojetta, the rapporteur of the law, told Euractiv.

An EU Council document about case studies illustrating the implementation of the regulation aiming to prevent online child sexual abuse material gives examples of how reports of such material were handled by member states.