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The Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly on Monday, where 50 French National Assembly members and 50 Bundestag members meet bi-annually to foster cooperation between the countries, was overshadowed by their divides on nuclear energy. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Germany...

A coalition of eight countries, led by Czechia, has come together to voice strong criticism against the proposed Euro 7 car emission standards. According to the European Commission, the Euro 7 standards rules bring emission limits for all motor vehicles,...

The Italian government is working to block Ireland’s new law requiring health labels on alcoholic products such as wine, a move that, according to one of the governing parties Forza Italia (EPP), breaks the internal market and generates unfounded alarm...

Turkey's third-place election candidate endorsed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday (22 May), boosting the incumbent and intensifying the challenges for opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in a Sunday runoff vote.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias brought up the issue of the arrest of the winning candidate of the “Together We Win” coalition for Himara, Fredi Beleri at the EU Foreign Council in Brussels, also meeting with Albanian counterpart Olta Xhacka,...

What policies will be at the heart of their electoral campaigns? Are they going to have a Spitzenkandidat? How will groups differentiate from each other? These are among the questions EURACTIV asked presidents of the political groups in the European...

The economic governance of the green transition is among the top priorities of the socialists and democrats (S&D) group ahead of the 2024 EU elections, S&D President Iratxe Garcia Perez told EURACTIV in a video interview. “If this has been...

EU citizens deserve to know more about how Recovery funds are spent and who benefits, write Krzysztof Izdebski and Dragoș Pîslaru.

Former EU commissioner Mariya Gabriel is close to forming a new Bulgarian government as part of a complex political agreement with her centre-right GERB party's arch-foes - the reformist 'We continue the change' party of former prime minister Kiril Petkov.

It is a clear success of French diplomacy that in the last four days, they have expectedly taken – by French official airplane – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to two international summits where he did his best to impact international players perceived as neutral vis-à-vis the Russian aggression against his country.

The EU’s 27 countries have agreed a common position on the revamp of the bloc’s sustainable product rules, following tenuous negotiations about a sweeping ban on the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear.

REPowerEU sets out targets for a steep ramp of heat pumps: We want to install at least 10 million / 30 million new heat pumps by 2027 and 2030, respectively. With these targets in mind, the European Commission is currently...

The Greek coast guard illegally pushed back asylum seekers, abandoning them in an inflatable life raft at the edge of their territorial waters, the New York Times revealed on Friday (19 May), providing videos where a coast guard boat, partially...

The Swedish presidency of the EU Council is making its third - and probably last - attempt to square the circle on the rules for gig economy workers with some light-touch changes.

Ireland's data regulator slapped a record €1.2 billion fine on Meta on Monday (22 May) and ordered it to stop moving EU personal data to the United States in a landmark decision that found such data transfers illegal.

Climate protection and prosperity needn’t be mutually exclusive – as long as we remain open to using all technologies to secure the energy supply and decarbonise industry. Policymakers need to set the right course now.

Reality is usually much more complicated than we can imagine, this is why ultimately we might see a combination of the scenarios described, writes Roman Rukomeda.

The EU must develop an industrial strategy tailored to address the challenges faced by energy-intensive industries, write Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sunday (21 May) that it was time to reform both the Security Council and Bretton Woods to align with the "realities of today's world".

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about President Emmanuel Macron's impromptu trip to Mongolia, a controversial campaign poster of the Spanish prime minister sparking turmoil ahead of election time, and so much more.