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The initial division of Italy into ‘red’ (Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Lombardy, Calabria), ‘orange’ (Apulia, Sicily) and ‘yellow’ zones will soon be updated depending on how the epidemiological evolves across the country. Campania is expected to transition from ‘yellow’ to ‘red’,...

The government will appeal the administrative court’s decision that found the Direct Taxation Administration had “exceeded its powers” by requesting information about the clients of lawyers it was investigating, announced Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna. It was found that the tax...

Germany and Europe are ready to contribute more to the transatlantic relationship, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday. However, many saw comments by her finance minister dampen those expectations. Speaking in Berlin, Merkel said, “we, Germans and Europeans, know...

While pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s Belgian site is to produce millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine, Belgium’s health minister Frank Vandenbroucke has cautioned against speculating about timing and effectiveness. Pfizer Puurs, in the province of Antwerp, is one of the two...

Estonian Interior Minister Mart Helme announced his resignation on Monday after his comments on the outcome of the US presidential election caused an outcry. Helme, of the populist EKRE party, questioned the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory and supported the...

Lithuania's new ruling coalition agreed on Monday (9 November) to commit their incoming government to support "those fighting for freedom" in Taiwan, threatening to hurt the small EU member's relations with China, a potential investor in its main port.

French President Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday (10 November) host a video summit about an EU-wide response to recent attacks in Europe blamed on Islamist radicals, his office said.

Honey harvests dropped by 40% this year, on the back of extreme weather conditions, according to EU farmers association COPA-COGECA, who sounded the alarm and warned that the sector urgently needs help from the European Commission.

In its crackdown on planet-warming F-gases, the EU introduced annual quotas in 2018, hoping the resulting price increase would encourage the use of greener refrigerants. But instead of a green transition, the move has generated a black market economy raking in the surplus.

Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to the war-ravaged enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the early hours of Tuesday (10 November) as part of a Russia-brokered ceasefire deal. Reactions in Yerevan suggest that the deal seals a defeat for Armenia and territorial gains...

Boris Johnson’s government suffered a series of defeats to his controversial Internal Market bill on Monday (9 November) after the House of Lords on Monday removed the sections of the bill that would break international law.

Futuristic flight technologies like battery-power and hydrogen are on the radar but sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are an already-available option that should be utilised more, MEP Elsi Katainen told EURACTIV.

A faithful ally of Donald Trump, Poland's populist government is struggling to digest his defeat and is worried the president-elect will be far more critical of its domestic policies, experts said Monday (9 November).

The European Union should quickly set up a new body to oversee the training of imams and make sure their messages to Muslim followers do not contribute to spreading an "ideology of hatred", a top European Union official said on Monday (9 November).

Today, the green and digital transitions are reshaping our way of life, work and interactions – and the COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically accelerated most of these changes. Nicolas Schmit is the European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights. The impact...

EU member states want more competences to be able to look into messages with end-to-end encryption, according to the draft Council decisions which has been made available to EURACTIV Germany.

Since the publication of the Sustainable Finance Package in 2018, the European Commission has sent clear messages to investors in Europe that the financial sector must not harm the planet and its citizens, and must avoid green washing. The objectives...

The electoral victory of Joe Biden is the best possible news for the EU, although some member countries or their leadership may have diverging feelings. The abnormal state of transatlantic relations under Donald Trump is coming to an end. It...

As the dust settles from the bitterly fought US election, we need to look at securing our democracies against hostile action online, writes Sir Graham Watson.

Lithuania’s new ruling coalition agreed on Monday to commit their incoming government to support “those fighting for freedom” in Taiwan, threatening to hurt the small EU member’s relations with China, a potential investor in its main port. EU member states,...