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The European People’s Party (EPP) is the only party on the right side of the political spectrum to select candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, the so-called spitzenkandidat, as the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy group (ID) oppose the process.

As the world’s largest interconnected power market, integration is a competitive strength for the European Union. In redesigning its power market, amidst energy challenges and geopolitical tensions, Europe must embrace integration and innovation to secure its energy resilience and low carbon future.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “We are committed to continuing to make full use of this cooperation forum to deepen the transatlantic partnership to...

A new industry coalition launched on Thursday (4 May) aims to promote sustainable energy storage technologies that will increase the resilience of Europe’s power grid and open the door for more renewables.

Berlin is discussing a proposal for a special industrial electricity tariff to avoid firms relocating into regions with cheaper energy prices, something Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck wants to underpin with a similar EU initiative. Germany’s energy-intensive industry accounts for 76% of...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results on Friday (5 May) with voters punishing his party after a year of political scandals, surging inflation and stagnant economic growth.

Britain's first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday (6 May), with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony steeped in solemn ritual and more than a millennium of history.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Danish government preparing to invest billions in defence spending, the Polish ruling party presenting a bill criminalising the ‘sexualisation of children’, and so much more.

Germany supports the African Union's bid to get a seat at the G20 group of large economies, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on 4 May, as the West seeks to woo the continent away from growing rivals like China.

Former finance minister Darius Valcov, convicted of a six-year prison sentence by the Romanian High Court for influence peddling and money laundering this week, has, like other famous Romanian convicts before him, found refuge in Italy. Valcov’s case has reignited...

Bulgaria is making every effort to enter the Eurozone no later than 1 January 2025, the Finance Ministry said in a statement published on Thursday, responding to media speculations that the euro could again be postponed after that date. Following...

Proceedings involving breaking pandemic era rules that were later declared unconstitutional in Slovenia could soon be halted and affect fines totalling several millions of euros, according to a bill endorsed by the government on Thursday. Since the end of the...

The Serbian government is proposing to reduce the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12, among other proposals, following the arrest of a 13-year-old suspected of killing nine and wounding seven during an elementary school shooting on Wednesday. The...

President Petr Pavel appointed Mikuláš Bek as the new Education Minister and Martin Dvořák as the new Minister for European Affairs on Thursday, giving a new face to the government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala. Dvořák (both Mayors and...

The Polish ruling camp will put forward a bill against the “sexualisation” of children and adolescents, aimed at giving parents greater freedom in bringing up their children, ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jarosław Kaczyński said on Thursday. The...

Portugal’s extremist far-right Chega party has decided to postpone the “World Right Summit” – a meeting with international far-right figures that the party was organising and was scheduled for mid-May in Lisbon – following harassment experienced by some of the...

The country’s left-wing government received an unexpected boost for its future political ambitions on Thursday ahead of Spain’s regional elections: record employment figures and a tangible reduction of unemployment data, a considerable achievement in post-pandemic and war, times. Currently, there...

Billions of euros of investments in defence spending will be used to modernise the army and help cope with accumulated challenges such as decaying facilities, the government announced on Thursday. Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen declared at a press conference...

Andrea Jelinek is the first Chair of the European Data Protection Board. We discussed with her the first five years of GDPR enforcement, the progress that still needs to be done and the challenges posed by AI like ChatGPT.

Following a massive migration to the West, Romania has seen an increase in the number of doctors, but the current ratio (346 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants) is still not enough.