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Malta’s ORNIS committee has accepted recommendations by hunting lobby FKNK to open a trapping season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover, while a recommendation for a ‘research’ period for the trapping of Finches was also accepted, despite ongoing European Commission...

Israel kept up its bombardment of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip Wednesday (11 October), as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a political rival announced an emergency government for the duration of the conflict that has killed thousands. The veteran...

Thierry Breton, the EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, unveiled the core proposals of a highly awaited EU telecom legislation, the Digital Networks Act (DNA), where he supported the concentration of telecom operators and the creation of EU telecom "champions".

The government has downgraded its economic growth projections for the current year, signalling a deeper-than-expected economic crisis and slower recovery, according to their revised autumn forecast published on Wednesday. While the government’s spring projection predicted mild growth of 0.4%, the...

The Czech opposition ANO party of former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (Renew) would win the Czech general election with 33.5% of the vote if elections were held now, according to a new opinion poll. The current Kantar election model for...

Building renovations, like those encouraged under the draft Energy Performance of Buildings directive, are key to improving people's well-being and reducing emissions, but they must be flexible and rolled out with social safeguards, writes Ciarán Cuffe.

A partial general approach by the Spanish Presidency, dated 10 October and seen by Euractiv, suggests limiting the scope of the detection orders in the regulation aiming to detect and remove online child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The proposed regulation...

The European Commission, European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a €1.1 billion “financing partnership” which seeks to eradicate polio and support global access to health services and innovations.

The implementation of the pandemic recovery funds remains mostly a top-down process, managed centrally and with limited attention to on-the-ground needs, according to local and regional authorities, who are calling out centralising tendencies in the management of EU funds.

Patients diagnosed with haematological cancers suffer from a lack of data and complex access to clinical trials which in turn impact their quality of life, patients' associations have argued.

In the aftermath of the Slovak elections, questions are emerging about the transparency and effectiveness of social media platforms’ efforts to safeguard election integrity and their preparedness to deal with hate speech, writes Barbora Bukovská. Barbora Bukovská is Senior Director...

The EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrated that it can act decisively and unitedly, in part thanks to a coherent communication strategy. But what works with one war, doesn’t necessarily work with another, as became painfully obvious with the Israel-Hamas war.

We fully agree that packagings are widespread, that it would be appropriate to minimise their usage where not necessary and their dispersion into the environment should be avoided.

Egypt is moving to avert a mass exodus from the Gaza Strip into its Sinai Peninsula, as Israeli bombardment halted crossings at the main exit point from the Palestinian enclave, Gaza officials and Egyptian security sources said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday (11 October) that Israel's blockade and bombing of Gaza in retaliation for Palestinian militant group Hamas' attack was a disproportionate response amounting to a "massacre".

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) will manage projects in Tunisia under the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), ICMPD told Euractiv in Vienna. 

Germany’s demand that ‘common numerical benchmarks’ be added to the EU economic governance reform is both “ideological and uncorrelated from reality”, a report by French MPs published on Wednesday (11 October) argues, calling for more transparency with national parliaments.

If governments around the world are to rise to the challenges of climate change, the tax system will have a vital role to play, argues a new report.

An editorial word: Health policy in the Council and a touch on mental health By Clara Bauer-Babef, Giedrė Peseckytė, Marta Iraola “It is okay not to be okay” would be a quote of the week if we were to pick...

Ukraine has made progress in implementing EU-mandated reforms, which are key for the start of its accession talks, but more will be needed down the line. In this opinion piece, Olena Halushka and Alyona Getmanchuk assess the progress made so far.