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A public falling-out between Russia and Armenia, one of its oldest and closest allies, is deepening doubts about Moscow’s ability to maintain and project power across parts of the former Soviet Union when it is focused on waging war in...

EU member states should start making “better” investments to fight escalating climate change as Europe’s resources are reaching their limits, the EU commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management said on Tuesday (12 September), following the recent deadly floods in Greece.

After a destructive summer in southern Europe, European experts and MEPs are calling on the European Commission to take steps to increase forest fire prevention as current measures are proving inadequate.

By 2030, Germany wants to have 15 million electric vehicles (EVs) on its roads. But at the Munich-based auto show IAA in 2023, the target still looked like a distant dream.

Following a decade of delays, Germany started construction on a crucial high-voltage transmission line to supply its southern regions with electricity - the infamous SuedLink.

A new EU Council presidency compromise text about the regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse material online, seen by EURACTIV, puts focus on the role of a planned new expert hub called the EU Centre.

Vladimir Putin on 12 September indicated he was bracing for a long war in Ukraine, saying that Kyiv could use any ceasefire to rearm and that Washington would continue to see Russia as an enemy no matter who won the 2024 US election.

The German Left party will take the fight to the far-right ahead of next June's European election, the party leadership announced at the presentation of its draft manifesto on Monday (11 September), but it faces an uphill battle amid internal divisions.

About a quarter of Libya's eastern city of Derna was wiped out after dams burst in a storm, the administration in the area said on 12 September, and the Red Cross said 10,000 people were feared to be missing across the country in floods.

German imports of refined oil products from India soared in the first seven months of the year, official data showed Tuesday (12 September), much of which was likely made using crude oil from sanctions-hit Russia.

The Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) will be a major shift, harmonising rules across Europe and introducing essential new measures, including, reduction, reuse and recyclability. Producer Responsibility Organisations are calling for an ambitious collective approach to reach EU targets and tackle today's environmental challenges.

Animal welfare should be explicitly mentioned in the title of a Commissioner in the next legislative mandate to make it a priority of the next EU executive and avoid the risks of having more animal testing in Europe, according to Green MEP Tilly Metz.

Many questions about how to phase out animal testing and promote alternative methods still remained unanswered after the current legislative term which is about to end in just over a year.

Two Norwegian opposition parties, the national-conservative Progress Party (FrP) and the centre-right Høyre (H) party of former Prime Minister Erna Solberg, won Monday's local elections in Norway, denying the centre-left Labour victory for the first time in 99 years.

Entering accession talks with the EU would help make the reform process in Ukraine faster and more effective, Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko told EURACTIV, voicing hope that this would happen by the end of 2023.

Slovak elections this month could see the EU member change course on Ukraine, analysts said, with polls suggesting the next prime minister could be Robert Fico, a Kremlin-friendly populist.

The European Commission is looking to rescale its military research and developement fund to limit the number of projects and avoid dispersion, according to people close to the matter.

The delay in implementing a tool to protect the EU market against fraudulent biofuels imports has been heavily criticised by European biofuel producers, who point the finger at the European Commission.

The French left in the European Parliament will only join the initiative launched by MEP Christophe Grudler (Renew) against the Parliament's current mandate for the reform negotiations on the EU electricity market if the right and the far right side with it.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his allies urged Ukrainians on Monday (11 September) to keep their focus squarely on the war effort 18 months into Russia's invasion, an indication that authorities in Kyiv were steeling for a long campaign.