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Camille Bonenfant-Jeanneney, a distinguished engineer and political science graduate, currently CEO of Renewable Gases Europe for ENGIE, shares her views and recommendations on how the EU regulatory framework should be completed in order to stimulate Europe’s biomethane potential.

Europe’s law to restore nature is in the balance, following a vote in the European Parliament's environment committee on Tuesday (27 June) that opened up the possibility for it to be definitively rejected by lawmakers during a whole Parliament vote in July.

Romania will receive part of the funds it requested for the second payment of the EU recovery plan in December, according to Tuesday’s announcement from the European Commission, which said it would freeze €53 million due to two unfulfilled milestones...

Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela admitted he is interested in taking on the position of European Commissioner after next year’s European Parliament elections. Síkela chaired several Energy Councils in the second half of 2022 during the Czech Council...

France is lagging Germany, Italy and the UK in the race to produce medicines, which is detrimental to patient health, according to a report by Entreprises du médicament en France (Leem), published on Tuesday. Leem has created the first Observatory...

The European People’s Party (EPP) is already in the middle of its election campaign and is not stopping at targeting development policy, said leading MEP Udo Bullmann, in an interview with EURACTIV, adding that “basic ideological blockades” are being drawn...

Coverage of European issues has increased in French broadcast media due to the war in Ukraine but remains limited, according to the Fondation Jean-Jaurès think tank, which proposes binding targets to increase reporting.

In a move highly criticised by the European Sex Workers Alliance, the European Parliament committee on women's rights voted in favour of a report calling on member states to decriminalise women in prostitution, while criminalising their clients.

Rewatch this EURACTIV Hybrid Conference to learn about the potential of a European hydrogen corridor stretching from South-Western to Central Europe and the challenges and opportunities of a European hydrogen backbone. What would the infrastructure need to connect supply with demand in the most efficient manner? How can the H2Med project contribute to RePowerEU’s objectives of decarbonisation, building energy security and reindustrialisation? And what are the implications for the entire value chain of hydrogen production, consumption and transportation?

The EU should make its recently-agreed ‘cash for migrant control’ deal with Tunisia a model for similar deals with other countries, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a letter to EU leaders ahead of a Brussels summit on Thursday (29 June).

It is in Europe's interest to see Ukraine building back - and it is our shared solidarity, between cities and regions, to accompany this process with all our means, write Vasco Alves Cordeiro, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, and Niina Ratilainen.

The digitalisation of distribution grids is one of the main priorities of the German Federal Network Agency, which presented ambitious plans on Monday (26 June) for the expansion of the country's electricity grid.

A majority of EU countries have pushed for an EU-wide ban on fur farming alongside a ban on the sale of fur products - however, the European Commission said it is waiting on further scientific opinions to steer its work on the matter.

Half of the sightings by the EU border agency Frontex prompted Search and Rescue missions or migrant interceptions by Libyan coastguards in international waters, according to a new report, a practice that typically leads to people being illegally returned to an unsafe country.

Rumours doing the rounds in Brussels speak of a potential coalition between the European People's Party (EPP) and the far-right Brothers of Italy following the European elections in 2024.

Austria's heating law, which aimed to ban new fossil-fuel heaters from 2023, has been stuck in parliament for months as the government has yet to obtain the necessary backing from the centre-left SPÖ. 

As the European Commission announced €330 million in funds - plus the approval of the first round of €100 million - for EU farmers to help with the drought and the impacts of the Ukraine war, member states have raised concerns about the 'opaque' decision process.

The European Commission released the results of its in-depth investigation into the €18.6 billion-worth marriage of Orange and MásMóvil, largely regarded as a testbed for maintaining the current competition doctrine in mobile markets.

As the number of elderly people and the demand for care increases, the European care sector is at risk due to underpaid, overworked, and unprotected carers, and the EU should do more, according to a report issued by Caritas Europa on Monday (27 June)

Airlines’ touting of green measures that reduce the climate impact of flying amounts to greenwashing according to consumer groups, who have submitted an official complaint to the European Commission and national regulatory authorities.