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Germany is considering ways to fund an increased ambition in animal welfare standards, including a new levy on animal welfare, which has raised eyebrows among German farmers who are concerned they will be exposed to unfair competition. EURACTIV Germany reports.

After years of negotiations, there is finally light at the end of the tunnel for reaching a deal on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). However, much has changed in the EU policy landscape when it comes to...

Universities should promote interdisciplinary thinking, engagement in public debates and applied research to support meaningful policymaking, experts and lawmakers told a recent EURACTIV event.

Water is a critical global security matter and Slovenia intends to put it at the core of its EU presidency, which starts on 1 July, writes Dr Stanislav Raščan.

The EU sanctioned Myanmar's top junta chief and 10 other officials on Monday (22 March), after demonstrators took to the streets for fresh anti-coup protests against the military.

China on Monday (22 March) announced sanctions on 10 Europeans including politicians and scholars, as well as four entities, in retaliation against the EU's approval of measures over Beijing's crackdown on the Uighur minority.

With their draft election programme, Germany's Green party want to finally say goodbye to their image as an opposition party. Climate protection and expensive investments are central, but their ideas for tax and financial policy could become contentious.

Turkey will be invited to follow a path of dialogue and reap some economic benefits, or move further away from Europe and face consequences, the EU's chief diplomat wrote in his Turkey report, set to be discussed by EU leaders later this week, according to a draft report seen by EURACTIV.

The UK government’s flagship home insulation scheme, intended to kickstart a green recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, has been botched, disastrous in administration, devastating in some of its impacts, and stands in urgent need of rescue, an influential committee of MPs has said. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

Today, fiber packaging is one of the most innovative ecosystems and has a huge role to play in delivering the EU’s Green deal whilst helping drive hygiene and safety for consumers globally.

Small Italian car filter supplier Ecofiltri took out a state-backed loan last year, just like thousands of other businesses fighting to keep afloat during the pandemic.

It has been five years since Islamist bombers slaughtered 32 people in the Belgian capital Brussels, in an attack then prime minister Charles Michel says changed the country forever.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Greece being the first country to provide free COVID-19 tests as of April, the Slovak PM urging his critics to resign along with him, and so much more.

A $2 trillion group of investors on Monday (22 March) urged the European Commission to be more ambitious in its planned overhaul of the bloc's huge farming subsidy programme to fight climate change and protect biodiversity.

Greece will provide free antigen Covid-19 self-testing kits as the government announced that pharmacies will distribute them from the first week of April. Potential buyers should present their National Security Number (AMKA) and will be able to pick up one...

“A unitary and civic model” can be the only one BiH is based on, said Bakir Izetbegović, leader of the biggest Bosniak Party of Democratic Action (SDA), dismissing that it be defined – according to the Dayton Accords – as...

A large-scale military exercise led by the US, NATO and its allies, dubbed Defender-Europe 21, began in mid-March and will last until the second half of June, while most of the activities will unfold in the Balkans and in Serbia’s...

In February this year, 45% of Croatian citizens supported the adoption of the euro, up from the 41% recorded last year, according to a survey conducted by the Croatian National Bank (HNB). By comparison, 19% oppose adopting the euro, while...

With the number of COVID cases on a sharp rise over the past days, Romania’s capital city is nearing the threshold of 6 per 1,000 coronavirus cases over the past 14 days that is needed to call a lockdown. Though...

The Slovak government crisis finally came to head over the weekend with Prime Minister Igor Matovič (Ordinary People and Independent Personalities) announcing his resignation, provided the ministers and senior lawmakers who criticised him do the same. The government crisis began...