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At the 10-11 December EU summit, the main foreign policy intrigue is whether the member states will adopt sanctions against Recep Erdoğan’s Turkey. But Germany and France are divided.

Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union dropped by 3.7% last year, bringing the bloc on track to smash its 2020 emission goals by 4 percentage points, according to the European Environment Agency.

Austria has called on the European Commission to make online platforms more accountable for the hosting of illegal content in a series of recommendations for the EU's Digital Services Act, citing the country's Communication Platforms Act as an example for the EU to follow.

The COVID-19 outbreak has given us the opportunity to rethink how we protect ourselves from invisible but very real germs. When the pandemic struck, company members of the Microbial Control Executive Council (MCEC), an initiative of the world’s leading producers of microbial control technology and solutions, took their responsibility and acted to meet the demand for critical supplies.

The EU's trend of negotiating preferential or free trade agreements with different regions and countries of the world has experienced successes and failures. EURACTIV's partner Efeagro reports.

A fresh biofuels fraud investigation in the Netherlands has once again shone a spotlight on the origin of imported used cooking oil (UCO) in the EU. 

Reaching a solution for the deadlocked EU budget between all EU countries as soon as possible is a 'fundamental issue', the forthcoming Portuguese presidency of the EU has said, warning that failure to do so would further undermine citizens' trust in the bloc.

The entry into force of the Mercosur deal – set to forge a trade area between the EU27 and Mercosur countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – remains a controversial topic amongst agrifood stakeholders. The deal was struck in 2019,...

The difference in production standards has been one of many causes for disagreement during the negotiations of the EU-Mercosur agreement. EURACTIV's partner Efeagro reports.

Want a cheap used car to nip around town without running the gauntlet of coronavirus on public transport? Welcome to Pandemic Motors, we have just what you need.

The European Union has invited US President-elect Joe Biden for two summits – one virtual, and one in person – in the first half of next year to discuss "strategic" issues ranging from the COVID crisis to climate change, peace and security, an EU source has said.

President-elect Joe Biden on Sunday (29 November) tapped key campaign staff and advisors to lead his all-woman communications team, naming former Obama State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Spain promising to donate its excess COVID-19 vaccines to poorer southern Mediterranean countries, the Czech Republic announcing it will relax its current measures as of Thursday, and so much more.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel aims to keep a channel of communication open with Turkey as opposition forces in the country are advocating a different approach toward the EU, social democrat MEP Udo Bullmann told EURACTIV.

The acting government on Friday declared Serbia’s ambassador to Montenegro, Vladimir Božović, persona non grata, for interference in its internal affairs, after he described as a “liberation” the decision of the 1918 National Assembly to unite Montenegro with Serbia and...

The International Monetary Fund is willing, in principle, to conclude a new €750 million credit arrangement with BiH and the negotiations which have just begun could end in December, IMF representative to BiH, Andrew Jewell, has announced.  BiH authorities would...

The former head of the Bulgarian Citizenship Directorate, Katya Mateva, was illegally fired in 2017 by then-Justice Minister Tsetska Tsacheva, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) decided. Mateva was fired three years ago after becoming the only civil servant who was...

Spain will donate its surplus of COVID-19 vaccines to the poorest countries in the southern Mediterranean region after it is done vaccinating its entire population next year, said Spain’s socialist Foreign and EU Minister, Arancha González Laya. “Spain will have...

The Finnish government decided on Friday to spend €2.3 billion from its €3.1 billion share of the EU recovery fund on ecological sustainability and cutting climate emissions, exceeding the Commission’s 37% minimum threshold for targeting climate actions. The focus will...

England could face a third wave of COVID-19 if lawmakers do not “get the balance right” on restrictions to curb the spread of the pandemic, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said. The country will come out of a four-week lockdown...