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To boost the uptake of recycled plastic in packaging material, the European Commission will define a method to measure, allocate and communicate recycled content. It will set a precedent and have further implications also for construction materials, batteries, vehicles and, most likely, textiles.

The temporary trade restrictions on four agricultural products from Ukraine to five European 'frontline' countries need to be prolonged at least to October, according to the EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski.

The EU is expected to formally ratify the Istanbul Convention on Thursday despite its rejection by a number of member states, including Czechia. As EURACTIV.cz reported previously, Czechia is mulling ratifying the convention in the future but wants to abstain...

Prime Minister Edi Rama said that the Serbian army, currently near the border of Kosovo, has zero power and is there only for internal Serbian political reasons, comparing it to the idea of the Mexican army showing up at the...

With the early general elections in Spain less than two months away, the socialist party (PSOE/S&D) wants to exploit fear of an alliance between the centre-right Popular Party (PP/EPP) and the far-right Vox (ECR), which they liken to a “mythological...

A joint declaration to cooperate on green hydrogen production was signed by Irish Climate and Environment Minister Eamon Ryan and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Education and Research Minister Mario Brandenburg on Wednesday. “This is a vote of confidence...

Drug shortages have increased at an alarming rate over the past five years in France,  from about 800 in 2018 to about 3,000 today, the chairwoman of the Senate Inquiry Committee on Drug Shortages, Sonia de La Provôté, said on...

The Polish government will not cooperate with the forced migrant relocation scheme proposed by the Swedish Council of the EU Presidency, announced the country’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. Stockholm upheld the EU Commission’s proposal regarding the reform of the bloc’s...

France's national hydrogen strategy update, due at the end of June, is set to focus on industrial decarbonisation, but the move risks destabilising the budding sector, the country's leading hydrogen lobby group warned on Wednesday (31 May).

The body of a retired Mossad agent was flown back to Israel on Wednesday (31 May), three days after he died along with two Italian intelligence officers and a Russian woman in a boating accident in northern Italy.

European security is expected to loom large as leaders from 47 European countries gather in Moldova on Thursday (1 June), for a summit staged as a show of diplomatic force vis-à-vis Russia.

Right-wing MEPs have tried to topple a compromise deal on the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ahead of a crucial European Parliament vote on Thursday (1 June).

If businesses are to take corporate sustainability seriously, they will need to add relevant sustainability expertise to their boards, argue Nicolas Sauviat and Sanjini Jain.

EU lawmakers have reached an agreement on the most significant overhaul of the bloc’s fisheries monitoring rules in a decade, marked by the contentious relaxation of rules on misreported fish catches.

The EU border management agency Frontex produces untrustworthy risk analyses on migration due to the ‘low reliability of the data collected’, an investigation conducted by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) found on Wednesday (31 May).

Due to a glaring misconception or simple lack of capacity, the tech sector has overlooked, or largely underestimated, one of the EU's legislative proposals that should define the liability regime for the decades to come and might open the door to mass claims.

The EU’s flagship Nature Restoration Law has suffered another blow as the largest group in the European Parliament, the European People's Party, walked out of negotiations ahead of a crucial vote in the environment committee on 15 June.

The continued development of AI brings both challenges and opportunities to the cybersecurity sector, a series of experts told EURACTIV, who highlighted that while risks will increase, avenues for defence will too.

Don’t change the rules if you expect others to stick to them. This old adage could well be applied to the ongoing debate about whether Hungary should be allowed to chair the EU Council Presidency next year. Because, if the EU changes the rules overnight, why should it expect Hungary to stick to them?

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday (31 May) delivered a speech to parliament partly written using artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to highlight the revolutionary aspects and risks of AI.