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The Baltic states are set to decouple from the Russian power grid in early 2025 despite calls from Lithuania for an earlier exit, Estonian Prime Minister told Reuters.

Bulgarian arms exports increased by 200% in 2022 when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, Bulgarian Economy Minister Bogdan Bogdanov told state television on Monday. Last year, Bulgaria’s export of specialised weapons production was worth €1.7 billion, equal to 2%...

Europe will become an equal player in the global format only when it becomes a federation, Czech Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvořák told EURACTIV.cz in an exclusive interview.

Pressure to ratify the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is mounting on Austrian chancellor Karl Nehmanner, as the industry and the parts of his own party urged him to lift his veto.

Spain wants to lead the future EU relations with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), but while majority parties, centre-left PSOE (S&D) and centre-right PP (EPP), avoid talking about Spain’s colonial past and leftist SUMAR (Left/Greens) is...

The German government wants to convince a hesitant France that the merits of the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement - currently being discussed at the EU-CELAC summit - are worthwhile, Franziska Brantner, the parliamentary state secretary in charge of trade at the Economy Ministry, told EURACTIV in an interview.

A leaked EU draft report on the renewal of EU approval for the controversial herbicide glyphosate suggests it could be approved as early as September, a timeline lambasted by green campaign groups as 'undemocratic'.

The Meta-owned social media platforms will face a temporary three-month ban on behavioural advertising based on extensive user profiling in Norway starting on 4 August, following a ruling of the EU Court of Justice that found the practice lacked a legal basis.

A fine-tuned version of the Cyber Resilience Act, seen by EURACTIV, tweaked the parts on reporting obligations, highly critical products and product lifetime ahead of endorsement at the ambassador level.

The European Commission will provide €675 million to Tunisia this year as part of its new 'cash for migrant control' deal with the North African country, EURACTIV has learned from a senior Commission official.

Activist Carola Rackete, who rose to prominence as captain of an NGO search and rescue boat, was nominated on Monday (17 July) as one of the two lead candidates for the German Left Party for next year's EU election.

I spent the best years of my life – the student years – in Romania. Unfortunately, it was the Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu and communism there was much tougher than in the other countries of the then-Warsaw Pact, including my native Bulgaria.

The European Commission has signed a non-binding agreement with Argentina to facilitate a stable supply of liquefied fossil gas (LNG) to Europe in exchange for cooperation on green energy and Buenos Aires reigning in gas leakage. Europe’s economic relations with...

Russia halted participation on 17 July in the UN-brokered deal which lets Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea, just hours after a blast knocked out Russia's bridge to Crimea in what Moscow called a strike by Ukrainian sea drones.

An electricity price peak shaving product is a dangerous business as it risks reducing welfare and threatens to lower incentives to invest in electricity production, writes Lion Hirth.

WhatsApp updated its privacy policy by switching to the 'legitimate interest' legal basis following an Irish Data Protection Commissioner's sanction in January.

The EU-LAC summit should present a “new era of cooperation”, but for the partnership to be balanced, it must secure sufficient EU public financing, address material consumption in the EU, and support local economies and industrialisation in LAC, argues Maria...

As a declining middle power heavily reliant on the United States for security, Italy feels significant concern over the ongoing transition in the global order and Rome will have to face the choice of whether to trade military security for economic growth, asks Arturo Varvelli.

The EU-Latin America summit this week shall not be overshadowed by the Europeans' preoccupations surrounding the war in Ukraine, Brazil's EU ambassador Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva told EURACTIV.

The vote on the EU’s proposed pesticides regulation in the European Parliament’s agriculture committee has been pushed back to October, further narrowing the window to reach an agreement ahead of next year’s EU elections.