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To limit global warming to 2°C or less—the level deemed safe by science—large emitting countries need to take ambitious action. Economists have long agreed that the most effective way to meet the climate challenge is to put a price on...

After a tough struggle, the three-way negotiations on EU structural funding rules have been concluded and white smoke rose from the co-legislators. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The European Green Deal aims to help businesses grow in a sustainability-conscious manner, so they contribute to a sustainable economic rebound, in which a circular economy plays a key role. In October 2020, the European Commission adopted the EU Chemicals...

The EU’s tacit acceptance of the TurkStream is a serious and dangerous misjudgement of the perils this diversionary pipeline presents, writes Olga Bielkova.

Italy’s regime of offering corporate tax-exemption to its ports and harbours is a breach of EU competition rules, the European Commission announced on Friday (4 December), giving the government until 1 January 2022 to ditch the tax perks.

Although sporting events generate large amounts of food waste, French football clubs have found a solution: cooperating with food banks. EURACTIV France reports.

As the European Commission turns its attention to sustainable construction, we need to think about the future of our built environment. Renovation and a Circular Economy can take the EU towards climate-friendly, grown-up buildings and building materials.

Although cutting emissions to net-zero by 2050 will destroy jobs and push up the costs of doing business in some sectors, it will bring gains elsewhere that will make up for the difference, according to a new study by McKinsey & company.

Turkey has not de-escalated its stand-off with Greece in response to diplomatic outreach, European Council chief Charles Michel said on Friday (4 December) and warned that EU member states would now consider “the means at our disposal”, which most probably means sanctions.

In order to help the EU achieve its ambitious climate change targets and deliver on its clean energy targets in a cost effective manner, significant investment is needed in the energy sector.

Hungary and Poland have committed to supporting each other's position in the budget row, and attaching a declaration to the rule of law regulation does not work for Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a weekly radio interview on Friday (4 December), following news that Poland may be softening its position on the veto.

Our society faces challenges more urgent than ever. The food sector is striving to transform the way that we produce, manage and consume food

Despite "very divergent views" between EU data protection authorities over a case of data breaches by Twitter, a final decision on the bloc's first major cross-border online privacy case is due to be published on December 17th, it has been revealed.

Google has warned that features used across the firm's Maps services are at risk of being dropped in the EU should the Commission introduce prohibitions against certain types of activity in the platform economy as part of the upcoming Digital Markets Act (DMA).

In today's news from the Capitals, find out more about the Polish Deputy PM saying compromise on the EU budget is still possible, the populist Finns Part, who increased his popularity by 1.4% since last month, and more.

The ruling Socialists in Albania and their parliamentary allies ‘hurried’ through legal changes that critics say are designed to benefit them in the next parliamentary elections, due in April 2021, according to the Venice Commission, an advisory board to the...

The European Commission will attempt to bolster the bloc's cybersecurity rules as part of an upcoming review of the network and information security (NIS) directive, it has been revealed.

Czech billionaire Petr Kellner – the new owner of the media house PRO Plus, the broadcaster of POP TV and Kanal A – arrived in Slovenia on Thursday afternoon, according to the portal Necenzurirano. Necenzurirano reported that Kellner is said...

The European Commission has decided on Thursday to refer Bulgaria and Greece to the EU Court of Justice for failing to ensure full compliance with the Court’s 2017 judgement which found Bulgaria to be in breach of its obligations under...

A compromise for the EU budget is possible, said Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin, who recently admitted that Poland should not have vetoed the EU budget. “Poland needs EU funds for dynamic development, including funds from the Recovery Fund....