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European lawmakers are urging authorities to take action over the thousands of cattle currently stranded at sea in “diplomatic limbo” in order to spare the animals any additional and unnecessary suffering.

Former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta on Friday (12 March) announced his candidacy as leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), the second biggest party in Mario Draghi's new national unity government.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU from the global perspective. You can subscribe here. /// EDITOR’s TAKE It is no secret that women are still woefully underrepresented in the world of foreign policy, security, defence...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov on Friday (12 March) suspended use of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, following similar steps in Denmark, Iceland and Norway over safety concerns.

Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz accused the EU on Friday (12 March) of unfairly distributing COVID-19 vaccines among member states, highlighting that certain EU countries have several times more vaccines than others.

This week on EURACTIV’s Yellow Room, we are bringing our international network to Brussels, focusing on Slovakia’s current political situation and how it is affected by the purchase of the Russian Sputnik vaccine

One priority of the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the EU is to conclude the legislative process that will allow terrorist content placed on the Internet to be eliminated in just one hour, Portugal's minister of internal affairs, Eduardo Cabrita, said in Madrid on Thursday (11 March).

China approved its five-year goals on Thursday (11 March), but the world’s biggest polluter shows little ambition of moving away from fossil fuels, leaving much to be decided.

EURACTIV spoke to two MPs from the ruling Georgian Dream ahead of an important deadline – 15 March, when the EU-Georgia Association Council will be held, and when a solution to the political crisis in the country is expected.

Serbia will become the first European country to produce the Chinese Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine, the Balkan country's President Aleksandar Vučić said Thursday (11 March).

Spain's government announced Thursday (11 March) a deal that will recognise riders working for delivery firms such as Deliveroo and UberEats as salaried staff following complaints about their working conditions -- a first in the EU.

Health authorities in Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Thursday (11 March) suspended the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine following reports of the formation of blood clots in some people who had been vaccinated.

The European Union needs to adopt separate targets for carbon emissions and removals. Otherwise, other countries like Brazil and Indonesia will do the same, which risks undermining talks at the UN’s COP26 conference this year, writes Suzana Carp.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Denmark bans donations from sources possibly endangering democracy, Poland's justice ministry preparing a bill same-sex couples from adopting children, and so much more.

Denmark wants to ban donations from potentially extremist individuals, organisations and authorities that might turn the country’s Muslim citizens against society and erode human rights and basic freedoms. Initiated by the Social Democratic government, the law, which will come into...

Montenegro’s businesspeople and authorities have pledged to intensify cooperation in a bid to try and save the main summer season, an online meeting of representatives of the country’s largest business associations has concluded, daily Dan reported. The call, which comes...

Serbian Interior Minister and leader of the Movement of Socialists Aleksandar Vulin said on Thursday that the former Serbian and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević, accused of having committed alleged war crimes, “deserves the respect of Serbia and...

The European Commission has proposed to unlock close to €12 million from the European Solidarity Fund to help Serbia in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU delegation in Serbia announced on Thursday. The funds will be directed towards...

A new shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Slovenia on Thursday, containing 14,400 shots, the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) told Slovenian Press Agency STA. However, a delivery planned in the next couple of weeks will leave Slovenia...

Croatia wants to join the Med7 group, Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlić Radman said during a visit to Cyprus on Thursday, Hina reported. MED7 is an alliance of the Mediterranean EU countries, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal...