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It would be wise to impose the equivalent standards of animal welfare on meat imports coming into the EU, according to a top EU official, who said this would be compliant with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, provided it...

  The European Regional Development and Cohesion funds, the classical tools of the EU’s cohesion policy, will disburse €242.9 billion euros during the 2021-2027 period, 30% of which will go to greening. In this episode we discuss how the cohesion...

The environment ministers of Poland, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic have criticised the constraints imposed by the "do no significant harm" principle when it comes to EU funding. Others like Denmark, meanwhile, defend strict limits on fossil fuel spending in the EU's recovery plan.

Family farming is no easy task, but one young Bulgarian couple has shown that sustainable farming can be a successful business venture, while also helping to revive one of the EU’s poorest regions. EURACTIV Bulgaria reports.

Greetings and welcome to EURACTIV’s Green Brief. Below you’ll find the latest roundup of news covering energy & environment from across Europe. You can subscribe to the weekly newsletter here.   The media are often criticised for being overly cynical...

The quest for democracy and freedom is in the hands of the people of Belarus. They should know that they are not alone, writes David McAllister.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Irish cabinet approving an ambitious climate action bill, Romanian kids possibly getting their holidays extended from two to five weeks, and so much more.

The European Commission will tighten its export guidelines on Wednesday (24 March) to prevent what it sees as an unfair one-way flow of vaccines, according to a draft seen by AFP.

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová called on Prime Minister Igor Matovič to resign so reconstruction of the government could begin under a new leader, in a statement broadcast live on TV on Tuesday. Čaputová criticised the government for failing to resolve...

Hungarian opposition MEP Katalin Cseh says she is proud but surprised that China may have banned her from its territory on Monday, the lawmaker told Telex. It is currently unclear whether Cseh is included in the sanctions announced by the...

According to a document seen by EURACTIV.cz’s media partner, Hospodářské noviny, vaccine manufactures will deliver more doses to EU countries that have ordered larger amounts of jabs, leaving Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia, Czechia, and Estonia unable to vaccinate half of...

The European vaccination process against COVID-19 “has not gone well”, Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has said, adding that the EU cannot be “a mass of selfishness”. “Regarding the supply of vaccines, it has not gone well. There was...

The Swedish government of Social Democrats and the Greens announced on Monday that it wants to dissolve the agreement which has enabled Swedish pensioners to benefit from tax exemptions in both Sweden and Portugal through a legal loophole. According to...

As European energy and environment ministers join their peers at the International Energy Agency’s COP26 Net-Zero summit, they must set the pace for the global phase-out of coal, writes Maria Mendiluce.

The Irish cabinet has approved an ambitious climate action bill aiming to put Ireland on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51% within 10 years. The bill will make Ireland “a better country”,...

At a press conference on Tuesday marking a year since the introduction of the first lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson conceded that he made many mistakes in his handling of the pandemic. Johnson said that “in retrospect, there are probably...

The Eurovision song contest has further increased tensions between Bulgaria and North Macedonia. Sofia expressed “bewilderment” at the hate speech campaign taking place in North Macedonia against the country’s own Eurovision 2021 contender, Vasil Garvanliev. After announcing publicly his Bulgarian...

The political parties represented in the Kosovo assembly need to play a responsible role in recognising the results of the parliamentary elections held on 14 February, the ambassadors of informal decision-making group Quint – which includes France, Germany, Italy, the...

“I most strongly and absolutely reject the claims in the Nacional weekly that Mr Zdravko Mamić in any way compensated my salary or private costs during the presidential campaign. They are absolutely false claims and lies,” former president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday (23 March) pledged to rebuild and revitalise the transatlantic military alliance after a bruising four years when Washington portrayed NATO as outdated, divided and in crisis. The first top US official to...