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Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius met with Spain’s third deputy prime minister Teresa Ribera to discuss the situation in the Spanish National Park of Doñana and the controversial proposed law to regularise illegal irrigation systems.

French Senate has urged EU institutions and countries to gather evidence of the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and sanction Russian officials involved in these crimes, Senator André Gattolin told EURACTIV France on Wednesday (19 April).

The detection of pesticides banned in the EU in shipments of wheat from Ukraine have added an extra layer of complexity to the unilateral decision of several neighbouring countries to block all Ukrainian agricultural imports, muddying the legality of the situation.

The European Parliament decided against introducing mandatory registration of meetings between interest groups and MEPs on Wednesday (19 April) in a move criticised by pro-transparency campaigners.

The European Commission will provide a further €100 million support package to five EU 'frontline' countries in an attempt to alleviate pressure on their farmers, hit by an influx of agricultural goods from Ukraine.

The European Commission’s recommendation to fight online piracy of live events focuses on the effective handling of take-down requests, dynamic injunctions, and voluntary cooperation. Still, rightsholders have found its relaxed revision time disappointing.

With global food security under strain, millets - one of the oldest cereals known to human civilisation - could help fight the food and climate crisis.

The European Commission on Tuesday (18 April) proposed an update to the EU's bank crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) framework.

Few topics in European politics are as unsexy as EU treaty reform. Yet two years ago, it was briefly back in fashion. A majority of national governments, including Germany and France, the EU’s engine room, gave their backing for treaty reform. Emmanuel Macron, then still something of a European poster boy, was the main cheerleader. 

The EU's current deputy director general for the European Commission’s enlargement negotiations, Katarina Mathernová is set to become the bloc's new ambassador to Kyiv, according to an internal note on appointments by the EU's diplomatic service (EEAS), seen by EURACTIV.

As the European Parliament’s published its draft report on the proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the rapporteur shared with EURACTIV his vision about the key aspects of the file. Javier Zarzalejos is an influential voice inside European...

A political deal paving the way for the formal adoption of the Chips Act was struck at a negotiation session between the EU’s main institutions on Tuesday (18 April). The European Commission proposed the Chips Act in February 2022 during...

Thousands of residents fled Sudan's capital Wednesday (19 April) as fighting between the army and paramilitaries -- which has killed around 200 people -- raged for a fifth day after a 24-hour truce collapsed.

The German government has adopted a law that would see new fossil heating installations banned from 2024, following a month-long row over the level of state support and pushback from business-friendly FDP lawmakers.

The Council's latest draft of the EU anti-SLAPP directive is significantly watered down and does not go far enough to protect journalists from lawsuits designed to harass and intimidate them, director of Article 19 Europe Sarah Clarke told EURACTIV in an interview.

With its new packaging rules, the EU aims to curtail exponentially-growing waste. But for the food sector, the proposal has unintended ramifications that have so far stayed under the radar, lawmaker Ulrike Müller warned.

As European healthcare workers have launched a wave of strikes in recent months, Green lawmakers in the European Parliament have warned about the shortage of healthcare professionals across Europe in a letter to EU leaders. Healthcare workers in several European...

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France's embattled leader Emmanuel Macron has announced a new large-scale labour reform, hoping to revive his political standing with a new “life-at-work pact”  in the wake of a pension reform crisis that angered the nation and marred his second presidential mandate.

EU lawmakers in the European Parliament are considering opening the doors of a coordination body tasked with implementing the new EU rules on human-origin substances to private companies and civil society, according to a preparatory document obtained by EURACTIV.