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The document that sets out France’s 2030 energy targets and was submitted for public consultation that the Energy Ministry unveiled on Wednesday has insufficient data to judge the actions taken by the public authorities, the Climate Action Network France said on Wednesday.

The centre-right and conservative groups in the EU House have accused the Greens, Socialists and the Left groups of double standards – comparing Spain to Hungary and Poland – for not condemning Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s controversial deals with separatist...

Most Poles do not believe that the ruling PiS’ party will succeed in forming a new government despite winning the elections and the president’s nomination, according to a poll published by Wirtualna Polska on Wednesday. While most PiS politicians, even...

EU countries are close to a reform agreeing on the bloc’s controversial debt rules, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said after meeting Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, who remained more guarded about the prospect of a deal, on Wednesday. EU members are...

The Portuguese government wants to evacuate another ten to twelve Palestinians who have relations with the country from Gaza, Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister João Gomes Cravinho told the press in Madrid on Wednesday. According to Cravinho, the government had a...

With a slight majority, the EU Parliament approved its proposal for EU treaty reform on Wednesday (22 November), triggering the formal request to the heads of state to vote on whether to open the EU reform convention. 

The international community will move forward with plans to establish a UN convention to set global rules on tax and illicit financial flows after a campaign led by the EU, United States and UK failed to kill off the plan. 

Increasing ammunition production in Europe is in the hands of national governments, who can re-prioritise orders, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Tuesday (21 November), amid concerns that the EU may fail to send the planned one million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by March.

As Europe’s social democrat parties prepare their policy platforms ahead of next June’s European elections, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has unveiled a series of new policy ‘missions’ designed to feed into the process. This event report looks at the policy...

Any journalist working in and around the EU knows that receiving jargon-riddled press releases is a frustrating but inevitable hazard of the job.  

The German parliament’s budget committee has delayed a meeting originally set for Thursday (23 November) to finalise the 2024 budget, following a court ruling that cancels €60 billion off a climate fund and could have broader implications for other public spending.

A new draft of the European Cloud Services scheme, seen by Euractiv, was circulated ahead of a meeting of the European Cybersecurity Certification Group on Monday (20 November), with some tweaks on the controversial sovereignty requirements.

As the Ambassador of the world’s youngest nation, I am excited to share with our European partners the optimism that fills South Sudan as we look forward to a transformative year in 2024. The country won its independence in 2011, and now, we are gearing up for our very first national election as a free country, as well as our debut appearance on a different stage - the basketball tournament at the Paris Olympic Games.

Israel and Hamas agreed on 22 November to a ceasefire in Gaza for at least four days, to let in aid and release at least 50 hostages captured by militants in exchange for at least 150 Palestinians jailed in Israel.

The stand-off between Brussels and Budapest will continue after two EU Commissioners told MEPs that the EU executive is still not ready to unlock billions of euros in recovery funds for Hungary. 

The Spanish presidency needs to conclude the technical preparation for the EU’s AI Act this week to request a revised mandate ahead of what is meant to be the last high-level meeting to reach a political agreement on the file.

Europe must avoid a return to austerity, insists Judith Kirton-Darling, Acting Joint General Secretary of industriAll Europe. We need flexible fiscal policies to invest in green, digital, and socially just transitions. This is essential for economic growth and job creation.

The next meeting of EU telecom ministers will debate how to address the "market fragmentation and financial sustainability of the European telecommunication sector", according to a discussion paper seen by Euractiv.

The EU has long opposed any extraterritorial application of sanctions. However, faced with reality, steps towards extraterritoriality are clearly emerging but the EU might still wish to nuance its message, write Tom Keatinge and Gonzalo Saiz.

Health and climate policy experts converged in Milan to participate at a roundtable event organised by Chiesi. The purpose of the event was to discuss the findings of a new survey, part of a report published by Economist Impact and...