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The mechanical engineering industry in Europe fully supports the goal of protecting human rights. However, the upcoming EU legislation on due diligence must be manageable and it must consider the limitations of small and medium-sized enterprises in particular.

The head of Pfizer said in an interview that people will "likely" need a third dose of his company's Covid-19 shot within six to 12 months of vaccination, while elsewhere defending the relatively higher cost of the jab.

The post-COVID recovery funds need to be spent quickly by member states already struggling with absorption rates. President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans need to promote the help available, writes Brook Riley.

Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff and a combined trillion pounds in assets to hubs in the European Union due to Brexit, with more pain to come, a study from New Financial think tank said on...

Health experts are urging EU policymakers and legislators to review the EU’s legal data protection framework, the GDPR, which is hampering the sharing of pseudonymised health data outside the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA).

In our changing Europe, worsening demography is often a catastrophe for democracy. Romania and Bulgaria are good examples of countries depleted of the healthiest part of their population, as hundreds of thousands of their most active and dynamic citizens chose...

The event formally launching the Conference on the Future of Europe on 9 May is set to be a ‘hybrid’ of online and physical participation because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the EU Commissioner tasked with guiding the process said on Thursday (15 April).

Greece plans to open its borders to vaccinated visitors from several countries from next week, the government said Thursday (15 April), as the country seeks to restart its badly-hit tourism sector.

The European Union on Thursday (15 April) voiced support for the United States over cyber-attacks it has suffered, including a major hack blamed on Russia, as Washington imposed new sanctions on Moscow.

EURACTIV Bulgaria’s investigative journalist Valia Ahchieva depicts in her latest production on YouTube a sad reality: a plant protection product called Mocap containing an EU-banned active ingredient is not only being used but also subsidised by Bulgaria's ministry of agriculture.

EU lawmakers moved closer to ratifying the bloc’s new trade agreement with the UK on Thursday (15 April), after the European Parliament’s International Trade and Foreign Affairs Committees gave their green light to the pact.

  This week on EURACTIV’s Yellow Room, we are talking about how some EURACTIV digging led to discussions and examinations over the Commission’s 462 million-euro contracts with several consultancy firms. We are focusing on the Parliament’s next steps and the...

To become climate-neutral by 2050, the EU plans to transform its energy system, which accounts for 75% of its greenhouse gas emissions.

For too long conservative and liberal-led governments focused on austerity. As we recover from COVID-19, it is time to refocus the EU on meeting the needs of citizens.

The importance of the freshly awarded EU protection for halloumi cheese goes beyond its food implication: key political actors have seen it as a historic opportunity to enhance economic cooperation and bring the two national communities in Cyprus closer.

Africa is the continent that contributes least to climate change, yet it is impacted more harshly than others and lacks support to innovate, says the Portuguese presidency of the EU Council, which organised an EU-Africa Green Talk in Paris on Tuesday (13 April).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Turkish President Erdogan slamming Italian PM Draghi for calling him a "dictator", the decision of Romanian PM Florin Citu to fire now-former health minister Vlad Voiculescu creating a political storm, and so much more.

Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani said on Tuesday that dialogue with Belgrade “cannot be a priority” before sufficient amounts of COVID-19 vaccine are secured for Kosovo citizens. The president said that “friendly countries and international organisations” would help Kosovo get the...

Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Vladimir Penda, a 27-year-old Montenegrin had been sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison, and two years of supervised release by a US district court, on charges of conspiracy...

Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman told Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz that: “Croatia and BiH are neighbouring and friendly countries that are undoubtedly geographically, politically, economically, and traffic-wise directed at each other.” “Therefore our good bilateral relations are of utmost...