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In first sit-down interviews since securing a deal to form the next German government, Merz lays out his foreign policy priorities.

Is Spain positioning itself as a possible mediator between China and the EU? Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Beijing visit was about more than pork exports.

Subcontracting in the construction sector risks driving illegal migration, but it also puts migrants in dangerous situations. This special report looks at how the EU can improve construction workers' rights.

Lawmakers are struggling to find a regulatory structure that incentivises companies to build the capacity mechanisms needed to handle increasing loads of variable renewables on the grid.

The EU has committed €77 million to strengthen European Reference Networks (ERNs) for rare disease patients.

Tripartite agreements are the backbone of the Clean Industrial Deal - linking offshore wind to investment certainty, lower energy costs, and a competitive European industry.

Brussels has wildly misinterpreted the US president’s reciprocal tariff “pause”.

Russian gas flows had surged in 2024, but US LNG is back behind Norway in second place.

All toys sold in the EU will be slapped with a QR code 'passport', and a whole slew of toxic chemicals will be banned under the rules.

Euractiv's Friday review of the week in the news, where you decide which is which.

A credit trading scheme was also adopted under the new mechanism.

In a separate deal, Spanish cherries also secured export approval from China.

Under the GDPR, X could be fined up to 4% of its annual global turnover.

In explaining its stance, Germany says the EU had not alternatives to US data centres, cloud, and artificial intelligence services.

Oslo's plan has already been criticised by experts and opposition parties.

The United States ranks as the second most significant export market for European brewers, both in terms of value and volume. 

The rules, which have come under fire for driving up energy prices in return for security of supply, should be extended until the winter of 2027, EU countries agreed today.

This reflects the growing interest in European countries in the use of drones for spraying pesticides

Eight MEPs will be in Paris from Monday, meeting France’s economy minister, top central bank and treasury officials, and representatives of numerous other public and private organisations.
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And DSA spillovers on telecommunication networks data traffic management.