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Electrification is a magic word on the path to a climate-neutral EU and decarbonisation, but it needs imports of electrical steel. How to align EU trade policy with European Green Deal objectives?

News Corp struck a global news deal with Alphabet Inc’s Google, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media company said on Wednesday (17 February), in one of the most extensive deals of its kind with big tech.

Most of the world's planned hydrogen projects and the biggest chunk of related investments this decade are expected to be in Europe, an industry report said, as the continent races to scale up the low-carbon fuel to meet climate goals.

The coronavirus pandemic, log-jammed trade talks and a long-delayed meeting of member states are just a few of the crises awaiting Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as she takes the helm of the World Trade Organisation next month.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about how Italy's Veneto region will receive more vaccines than requested, the crowding of Polish ski slopes, and so much more.

Fifth-generation mobile networks from China may pose a certain number of possible risks, the director of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service, Antti Peltarri, warned in an interview with the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation (YLE), adding that countries like Russia and...

A rare earth mining project in Greenland has reignited dreams of the autonomous Arctic territory's full independence from Denmark one day, but environmentalists fear large-scale mining could harm the remote island's pristine landscape.

It was positive to see a large number of Serbs cast ballots in Kosovo’s recent snap elections and vote for the Serb Ticket party as it represented a connection with Serbia, Serbian parliament Speaker Ivica Dačić told Pink TV on...

After several drama-fuelled weeks, Croatia’s biggest opposition party SDP (S&D) finally chose Joško Klisović as its candidate for the Zagreb mayor in the local elections this spring. “He is a qualified and experienced person, and will be given full liberty...

The performance of Romania’s economy in the fourth quarter obliterated all the apocalyptic scenarios, Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu wrote on Facebook after the national statistics institute announced in a flash release that the country’s GDP rose by 5.3% in...

In two of its judgments, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Bulgarian institutions had reacted inadequately by not reprimanding or convicting Volen Siderov, the far-right leader of the pro-Russian Ataka (Attack) party – which was part of the...

The Slovak Agriculture and Food Chamber (SPPK) is preparing a protest against the farming subsidy changes drawn up by Agriculture Minister Ján Mičovský after his ministry announced last week that it would introduce a redistributive payment to shift a portion...

550,000 doses of the two-shot Chinese Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Hungary on Tuesday, making it the first EU country to receive the Chinese vaccine.  Vaccinations with the jab, however, can only start after the National Public Health Centre gives its...

The Czech government approved the nomination of former Health Minister Adam Vojtěch to become the new Czech ambassador to Finland – which according to news site SeznamZpravy, was based on the nomination proposal of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Though the...

As Poland’s government allowed ski slopes to reopen from Friday for a two-week trial period, with cinemas, theatres, and hotels also being allowed to open at 50% capacity, Zakopane – the country’s largest ski resort – was full of tourists...

The management of EU recovery funds could be “a challenge for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, as there are fears that fraud may occur in claiming and disposing of these particularly large sums,” Greece’s EU prosecutor, Dimitrios Zimianitis, told EURACTIV’s...

Portugal is considering drawing on €2.7 billion in European loans from COVID-19 post-crisis funds to invest in affordable housing, business capitalisation, and transport, according to its Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) released on Tuesday. However, according to a source in...

Two intermediaries of pharmaceutical companies producing vaccines authorised by the European Medicine Agency (EMA) reportedly offered 27 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the north-eastern Veneto region instead of the requested four million, several Italian media reported on Tuesday....

A few months before the German elections, voters seem to start seeing the advantages of a Christian Democrat and Green coalition. Asked which party CDU/CSU should consider as a potential coalition partner at the federal level, a third of those...

The EU will launch a programme to study Covid-19 variants and produce "second generation" vaccines against future strains, the Commission president has said.