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Austria’s coalition government has confirmed it will block the landmark EU-Mercosur trade agreement - which should create the biggest free-trade area in the world - saying it goes against the EU's environmental ambitions set out in the European Green Deal.

Smart, low-carbon homes were once the preserve of one-off grand designs – now there are up to 30,000 projects in the pipeline, writes EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian Environment.

It took us a global pandemic to realise that we depend on care. But despite all the clapping, care workers continue to work in precarious and vulnerable conditions.

Getting more women on screen is part of Lina Brouneus’ job. She is the Netflix lead on strategy for Europe and the Middle East and charged with driving diversity initiatives in Europe, on and off screen. From recent hits like...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Saturday (7 March) that the pandemic risked rolling back progress made on gender equality, as women take on the lion's share of childcare in lockdown and are more likely to work in at-risk jobs.

This International Women’s Day takes place roughly one year after the start of the coronavirus pandemic. On 5 March last year we adopted the EU’s Gender Equality Strategy for this mandate with a number of measures aimed at ensuring that women are free, can lead and thrive on an equal basis to men, writes Helena Dalli.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about most Poles not trusting the Russian and Chinese COVID-19 vaccines, French health associations call for all healthcare workers to have 'vaccine priority', and so much more.

Almost half of the employed women in Slovenia and a little more than a quarter of employed men had tertiary education despite there being more men than women in the country, data from the Slovenian statistical office found. The average...

Ivan Meštrović’s sculptures in Chicago depicting American Indians deserve to stay, said Croatian Culture Minister Nina Obuljen Koržinek. The Chicago Monuments Project which, according to its website, “intends to grapple with the often unacknowledged – or forgotten – history associated...

Corruption and a lack of media freedom in Bulgaria are “serious challenges to the US-Bulgaria bilateral relationship,” according to a joint statement by US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (Democrat) and Jim Rich, one of the committee’s senior...

French Ambassador to Serbia Jean-Louis Falconi said that EU membership was not a matter of negotiation, but one of the candidate country meeting every requirement to join. “It’s not a negotiation. If you want to join the EU, there are...

“We are in the home stretch. Now we need to close so we can open as soon as possible,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a Facebook post on Saturday. The government announced Thursday morning that schools and kindergartens will...

The Czech government – after strong pressure from regional authorities – has finally decided to ask Germany, Poland and Switzerland for help as its hospitals are currently running out of capacity, particularly in the regions bordering with Germany and Poland....

The vast majority of Poles do not want the government to use COVID-19 vaccines from China or Russia, a poll released on Saturday (6 March) showed. While only 19% of respondents believe the government should buy the Russian vaccine, 26%...

Excessive police violence against citizens in an Athens suburb over the weekend has caused turmoil in Greece politics, with the opposition accusing the government of trying to establish a police state. Police officers appeared in a square in a suburb...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will be travelling to both Cairo and Nicosia on Monday in a bid to prevent further tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean region, foreign ministry spokesperson Alexandros Papaioannou has confirmed. The Greek foreign minister will meet...

The AstraZeneca vaccine will be used on people older than 65, Health Minister Roberto Speranza has confirmed. “Starting tomorrow [ed. Monday] or the day after, there will not be any more age restrictions for the AstraZeneca vaccine, thanks to new...

Ahead of Sweden’s approaching elections, a new poll shows that the Green Party, Christian Democrats and the Liberals are struggling to reach or stay above the 4% threshold needed to stay in parliament. The Green Party now has 4.4% support,...

After months of speculation, the majority of Finnish parties, together with the authorities, have announced a proposal to postpone the municipal elections from April until June, citing the deteriorating coronavirus situation. The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare gave an...

Northern Ireland First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster called on the Irish government and the EU to take “some responsibility” over the recent tension over the Northern Ireland protocol. “I think the Irish Government and the European Union need...