Euractiv.com

Lawmakers in the European Parliament are split over the best way to tackle Europe’s growing packaging waste problem, with reuse versus recycling at the heart of the debate.

A new EU Council presidency compromise text of the proposal aiming to prevent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online introduces a survivors’ board and puts more focus on competent authorities.

Tough EU rules to protect victims of spyware activities are essential, Catalan foreign and EU affairs Minister Meritxell Serret told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

In another surprise visit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to travel to Ukraine for Europe Day, the EU's executive announced on Monday (8 May).

Minderoo Foundation is one of the largest philanthropies in Australasia. With a corpus of about AUD$2.6 billion funds, the foundation works on tackling some of the biggest challenges, including ending modern slavery, protecting our oceans, developing stronger communities, and fighting plastic pollution.

Russia stages its annual Victory Day parade on Red Square on 9 May amid particularly tight security after a series of drone attacks, including on the Kremlin citadel, symbolic heart of the Russian state, that Moscow has blamed on Ukraine.

If Turks oust President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in elections this month it will largely be because of an economic reversal that saw their prosperity, equality and ability to meet basic needs start to tumble midway through his two-decade reign.

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team tells the story of a Portuguese delicacy that has a strong, unsuspecting link with a foundational moment of the EU’s integration process.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Slovakia's prime minister resigning, German conservatives facing criticism for visiting controversial Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and so much more.

The Arab League readmitted Syria on Sunday (7 May) after more than a decade of suspension, consolidating a regional push to normalise ties with President Bashar al-Assad in a move criticised by Washington. The decision said Syria could resume its...

Support for the Labour Party was up by seven points compared with 2021 in the biggest Brexit-supporting wards, while the Conservative Party was down 5.5 points, according to an analysis of Thursday’s local election results. Figures from the BBC’s ‘key...

Andrey Kovatchev, a Bulgarian MEP from former prime minister Boyko Borissov’s GERB party (EPP), and three people accompanying him were refused entry to North Macedonia over the weekend. Macedonian police said the individuals travelling to attend the Bulgarian military cemetery’s...

Investors interested in renewable energies in Serbia will be provided greater predictability regarding costs and incentives, according to amendments to the Renewable Energy Sources law currently being reviewed in parliament. The amendment bill, adopted by the government in mid-March, fundamentally...

Šoštanj, the only remaining coal-fired power station in Slovenia, will likely only be operational in case of electricity shortages and high market prices until it is removed from the grid per the country’s coal plan to phase out coal by...

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputova will appoint a caretaker government led by the economist and National Bank of Slovakia vice-chair Ľudovít Ódor on 15 May, after Acting Prime Minister Eduard Heger handed in his resignation over the weekend. Heger resigned after...

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Madrid’s regional conservative president, would prefer to govern alone if re-elected on 28 May, even though forming a coalition with the far-right VOX would benefit Spain’s future interests, Ayuso told EURACTIV’s partner EFE in an exclusive interview....

A research group from Helsinki University named the strains of a bacteria called Desulfovibrio as a likely cause of Parkinson’s disease, according to an article originally published in the scientific journal Frontier in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. Despite more than...

By investing in transport infrastructure, CPK meets the current and future needs of Europe while enhancing the continent's security. The extensive potential offered by the combination of HSR and freight traffic has enabled it to identify optimal locations for intermodal terminals at the feasibility study stage.

The European Union has proposed sanctions on Chinese companies accused of selling equipment that could be used in weapons to support Russia's war machine, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (7 May).

Two Dutch scientists accepted an offer to falsely change their main institute to Riyadh-based King Saud University (KSU), naming the university first in three publications a year, a report published on Saturday reads. According to Volkskrant, who published the report,...