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An attack on a major Russian-held dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday (6 June) unleashed a torrent of water that flooded two dozen villages and forced the evacuation of 17,000 people, sparking fears of a humanitarian disaster.

The Slovakian prime minister’s European Union advisor Ľubica Karvašová believes that new opportunities must be embraced to ensure that Europe will shape its own future. She writes that the European Political Community, which met last week in Moldova, could fill...

One hundred innovative solutions for Europe's ecological transition, which include a vegetable-based lamp, AI to combat food waste and a wind turbine covered with tensioned textile, will be presented to the European Parliament on Wednesday (7 June).

The world will simply have no chance of reaching the necessary climate goals if we do not get annual energy efficiency improvements up to approximately 4%, write Dan Jørgensen and Kim Fausing.

On Tuesday (6 June), EU health agencies recommended updating COVID-19 vaccines to target XBB strains, a subgroup of Omicron, with hopes to advance protection from infection and mild-symptomatic disease. 

The EU's pharmaceutical legislation, presented last April, provides for improved access to orphan drugs in the fight against rare diseases. While patients' associations welcome the text, some proposals still need to be improved.

German leasing association ‘Deutsche Leasing’ reported a cyberattack on its systems on Saturday morning (3 May), forcing them to put down their IT services. The association only made the attack public on Tuesday.

The initial reception of Ukrainian refugees in the EU after the Russian invasion was smooth and efficient, but there are severe limitations facing the provision of basic services, a report by Caritas Europa published on Tuesday (6 June) revealed. The...

Voter turnout is set to increase at next year’s European elections according to a pan-EU poll published on Tuesday (6 June), with 67% saying they would be likely to vote if the elections were held next week, compared to 58% in April 2018. 

The decision to temporarily extend trade restrictions of some agricultural products across five EU member states brought ‘irritation’ to Ukraine, which is demanding the issue to be 'depoliticised' and the extension not be prolonged again.

It is now exactly a year until the next European elections. In this explainer, we give you the lowdown on what to expect in the coming months as Europe’s leaders define their campaigning lines and top candidates ahead of the...

Austria is often considered to be the birthplace of modern right-wing populism in Europe. However, the small Alpine country has recently been haunted by another political spectre - and this time it is coming from the left.

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary hand-delivered a petition of some 1.1 million signatures to the European Commission headquarters last week, in a bid to pressure the EU executive into tackling the air traffic control strikes disrupting travellers passing over France.

The EU will prioritise concluding a long-delayed trade deal with South America's Mercosur bloc and closer institutional cooperation as it seeks new allies to reduce economic dependencies on China and counter Russia, according to a leaked draft proposal, seen by EURACTIV on Tuesday (6 June).

Just as the timing of the world’s first AI treaty starts aligning with the EU legislative agenda, an American-led push to exclude private companies might make it not worth the paper it is written on. The Council of Europe is...

EU countries are expected this week to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting migrants, a top EU official said on 6 April of what would mark a breakthrough after years of bitter feuds within the bloc.

Temporary trade restrictions on four agricultural products from Ukraine to five European ‘frontline’ countries have been extended until September, despite one of the states - Hungary - having yet to meet the EU executive's conditions for the extension.

The new European Sovereignty Fund, expected to finance multi-country projects of European importance for the green transition, is key to the Commission's game plan to counter foreign subsidies. Yet days before its expected proposal, some query if it is already falling short.

Eco-schemes, a new instrument within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to reward sustainable farming practices, have been taken up by far fewer farms than hoped in Germany, according to new data from the country's agriculture ministry.

EU chief Charles Michel on Tuesday (6 June) expressed shock at an attack on a major Ukraine dam and pledged to hold Russia accountable for the “war crime” of destroying civilian infrastructure. “Shocked by the unprecedented attack of the Nova...