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Lawmakers in the European Parliament have hashed out agreements on some less controversial parts of the proposal to regulate travel tech platforms, but differences remain around critical aspects such as the administrative procedures and the 'compliance by design' concept.

Negotiations on an EU law to crack down on planet-warming fluorinated gases have hit a snag, amid pressure from some EU countries and parts of industry to secure carve-outs for heat pumps.

As it becomes increasingly clear that the EU's industrial policy lacks public money to back it up, the European Parliament has set its sights on revenues from the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for the development and deployment of green technologies.

Romania’s ballooning public deficit has warranted European scrutiny as spending has increased thanks to an overly generous special pensions system for a select number of public officials while revenues have been hurt by a number of tax exemptions.

Nuclear power was reintroduced as one of the preferred green technologies to revitalise Europe's industry, according to a political agreement struck by lawmakers in the European Parliament on the bloc's proposed Net-Zero Industry Act.

In May, the German government still had its sights set on world leadership in quantum technology, but now the focus is on complying with the debt brake.

One of the most stringent red lines between Moscow and the US in the context of the war in Ukraine is that Washington and its allies would not seek regime change in Russia. If the West got caught red-handed in trying to engineer this, we would be close to nuclear war.

More than two years of delay to the ratification of the new EU treaty with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries ended on Thursday (20 July) after Poland confirmed its approval of the agreement. 

Portugal’s Environment Minister Duarte Cordeiro annouced this week that the country has started withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty, in line with a proposal tabled by the European Commission two weeks ago.

In partnership with Amazon, Forum Europe brought the 11th Annual European E-Commerce Conference back to Brussels, to discuss ecommerce trends for 2023. The European E-Commerce Conference, now in its 11th year, is the premier gathering for policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, and stakeholders from across Europe....

EU negotiators met on Wednesday (19 July) to hash out the details of the EU’s Nature Restoration Law, following a nail-biting victory for the proposal in the European Parliament last week.

Local and regional authorities across Europe have a big role to play in facilitating the green transition and creating a clean energy supply. Citizens, SMEs and stakeholders should have the opportunity to invest and be involved in local power generation facilities, writes Josef Frey.

In this edition, of the EU Politics Decoded, we look at the long-term consequences of the EU's decision to pursue cash-for-migrant-control deals with Tunisia and, in the future, other North African states.

Frans Timmermans will leave the European Commission to run for the leadership of the combined Labour and Green Left parties in a Dutch national election in November, newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Thursday (20 July).

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Before we start, a little service announcement. This is the last issue ahead of the summer break. The next issue...

Beset by a woeful economy and struggling to shore up support, Erdoğan finds it increasingly difficult to maintain a neutral position between Russia and the US as he signals a realignment with the West, writes Tan Albayrak.

The EU warned the authorities of the increasingly defiant Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Wednesday (20 July) to cease divisive rhetoric and actions or face "serious consequences".

Work on pressuring Russia to stop its war on Ukraine must continue, even at a national level when the EU cannot, Jan Marian deputy foreign minister of the Czech Republic, told EURACTIV in an interview on Monday (3 June).

The rise of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Midjourney AI, able to produce incredibly realistic content, poses an unprecedented challenge to the creative sector. We discuss what this new generation of Artificial Intelligence means for this sector and human...

Spain, the current holder of the EU Council presidency, has been accused of undermining the adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe following the circulation of a discussion paper that questions the EU's approach.