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As the science about the climate impact of hydrogen becomes clearer, discussions on whether a dedicated law is needed to detect and repair leaks from infrastructure are also gaining momentum.

In the dynamic landscape of the EU’s health-tech market, start-ups face a myriad of challenges as they strive to innovate and carve out a niche in an industry characterised by rapid technological advancements and complex regulatory landscapes. In these articles,...

Health-tech start-ups have exponentially grown since 2016, though statistically most are still destined to fail within their first few years. Why does this happen?

This week Europe’s hydrogen players are meeting in Brussels for the EU Hydrogen Week. Yara will present its solutions to decarbonize European industry through clean ammonia and announce the world’s earliest transnational binding agreement on carbon capture and storage.

*Content-Type: Underwritten / Supported Compared to Europe, Japan has stricter smoking restrictions – in outdoor public spaces and then indoor environments too. The high population density and the traditional Japanese principle of respecting their fellow citizens explain why the smell...

A lithium mining project has drawn hope of economic revival in a region hit by deindustrialisation in central France but the project promoters are confronted with mounting anxiety from local residents and, in some cases, opposition from elected officials.

Listen to the full event here: Spain is part of D9+, the group of European countries leading a new economic model with impact in multiple sectors. We are the seventh country in the European Union in the Digital Economy and...

Finland has identified a surge in asylum-seekers from Russia and has taken measures to curb it by closing four of the nine border crossing points along its 1,340 km-long frontier with its big eastern neighbour.

Green EU lawmaker Ernest Urtasún has joined Spain's new government as the minister of culture and The Left’s MEP Sira Rego will be the new minister for youth and children, the new-old Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Monday (20 November),

The care pathway for stroke patients needs to be strengthened in Italy to reduce the burden of disabilities and death in the post-stroke phase according to practitioners and healthcare stakeholders interviewed by Euractiv. In Italy, stroke is the third leading...

The EU commissioner for international partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, has become the fourth commissioner to leave her post and focus on national politics as she announced she would run for president of Finland on behalf of her Finnish Social Democratic Party (SDP), despite polls showing little chance of victory.

Following the publication of the new European Cancer Manifesto, EU lawmakers and stakeholders have driven home the the importance of improving prevention and screening policies across Europe. 

Despite EU funding, the digitalisation of healthcare in the Czech Republic is delayed, and critical components are still missing resulting in local doctors not being able to obtain information about patients in urgent situations, the National Audit Office has warned. 

After a ruling by Germany's top court barred €60 billion from the government's climate action fund, politicians are frantically searching for ways to close the gaping hole in the budget, with the Social Democrats questioning the constitutional debt limit.

Hungary's ruling party unveiled billboards vilifying European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen on Monday (20 November), the first time it has made her a personal target in a campaign similar to one against her predecessor that angered Brussels.

We must see the amnesty law as a unique opportunity to counter the rejection that Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont incites in public opinion, writes Juan Fernando López Aguilar.

Germany is providing fresh money to Africa as part of advancing the continent’s green energy transition, building on a more consistent engagement strategy of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government.

The dispute is growing over transferable vouchers for developers of novel antimicrobial products, proposed by the European Commission in the EU pharma package, but Prague is particularly concerned about the potential impact on national health systems.

The Netherlands is taking part in a pilot project for the online publication of drug information, together with three other EU countries. Coordinated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the programme has just released the electronic product information for the first seven medicines out of 25.

Fake news about vaccines, mistrust, and refusal of immunisation by parents, teachers, and the whole society led to a drastic drop in HPV immunisation coverage among girls in recent years, an investigation by Euractiv Bulgaria showed.