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American multinational technology company Apple has never held talks with the World Health Organisation or the EU about the possibility to develop a COVID-19 vaccine certificate application, and has made clear it does not want to access private data from such an app, EURACTIV.com has learnt.

EURACTIV’s media partner, Hungarian news site Telex, was awarded the #ALLForJan prize, established in honour of the murdered Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak, based on their advocacy of the freedom of the press and their work over the past several...

We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global diplomacy will nevertheless focus on common concerns and shared lessons. Much of that revolves around the nature of globalization.

Grilled by European lawmakers, the chief executive of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, gave only vague explanations about recent supply cuts of COVID-19 vaccines and about the preferential treatment given to the UK, failing to guarantee the expected EU deliveries for the second quarter of the year.

Britain’s 94-year-old Queen Elizabeth, who last month had her first COVID-19 vaccination dose, has encouraged the public to follow suit, saying it did not hurt and those who were wary should think of others.

European Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday (25 February) that European industry would be "even more competitive in a digital future" if it starts investing "now" in people, technology and the right regulatory frameworks.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Spanish flag carrier Iberia testing out 'health passports', a German MP being raided by police for allegedly lobbying the government to enter a contract with a mask supplier, and so much more.

The Dutch parliament on Thursday (25 February) passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such move by a European country.

The representatives of Serbian political parties will not be included in the online discussion with the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs chief David McAllister scheduled for 1 March, Serbian Assembly Speaker Ivica Dačić has confirmed. Dačić said that he...

The government communication office’s (UKOM) failure to pay the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) has prompted strong reactions from STA employees and several journalist organisations at home and abroad, as well as some MPs. The move is seen as another attempt...

71% of citizens think that Croatia is heading in the wrong direction, while 58% do not approve of the government’s work, according to the monthly Crobarometar, which has been recording mounting dissatisfaction among those surveyed for the third month in...

As European Union leaders debated the idea Thursday (25 February) amid claims that it could be divisive and discriminatory, on the global scale, the idea of vaccine passports, which would allow people who have been inoculated the freedom to travel,...

Bulgaria will stop the process of mass vaccination as it will continue to only receive 40% of the ordered doses of British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccines, which are the basis of the government’s immunisation plans. To fill the void, Bulgaria will receive...

This type of quarantine is selective and applied only in areas with marginalised communities, and is “discriminatory, as it lacks justification, and its duration is unclear,” said Slovak Ombudswoman Mária Patakyová in reference to the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency saying...

As negotiations on the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum are approaching, the Czech Republic is calling for better prevention of uncontrollable migration flows, assistance for migrants in the regions of their origin, as well as more intensive cooperation...

Although Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is set to present the national recovery plan on Friday, as government spokesman Piotr Müller confirmed on Thursday, the government has not yet approved the bill to ratify the Reconstruction Fund. As part of the...

Human rights watchdogs hailed on Thursday European Court of Justice advocate general’s opinion that criminalisation of assistance to asylum-seekers violates EU law. The Hungarian parliament adopted the “Stop Soros” package of laws in June 2018, on the basis of which...

The Greek penal code will be amended to have stricter penalties for sexual offences, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a parliamentary address on Thursday, adding that “for minors, the statute of limitations is suspended until the victim reaches adulthood,...

Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice has ordered a man to compensate his former partner for the domestic work she performed over almost 30 years of de facto union. Portugal’s highest court said that not compensating the domestic activity exclusively or essentially...

The Chair of the populist Finns Party, Jussi Halla-aho said he is not pushing for an EU exit and is “in principle” not against the bloc in a podcast published Thursday, despite his party’s existence being based on criticising the...